The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02


trust thinks the workers are?
Here is the answer:
In spite of the tremendous pressure
of the government for it's no-strike
by the A. F.. of L.
and Socialist Party leaders eager to
eat from the overflowing official
trough, the following strikes took
place in July (reported by the Labor
Research Association.
Wheeling Structural Steel Co.. Martins
Ferry, ohio-150 out, against 22c hourly
rate and for Acc an hour; for a-hour day
and against Sunday work
Acme Steel & Malieable Iron Works. Inc
Buffalo, NJ 1.-TWO weeks strike of 200,
July 26. Workers formerly getting zoe
an hour won SOC rate, those getting 30c
before strike now have 40c an hour
and all others 10 per cent increase
SHOP committees recognized with work
ers nearly 100 per cent organized in
Steel & Metal Workers Industrial Union
Hupp Motor Car Corp. and Van Dorm Iron
Works Co., Cleveland, Ohio-workers cut
early in August when no wage rises were
granted asT companies signed blanket
MIRA code.
Malleable IRON Co., Bridgeport, Conn
$50, led by Trade Union Unity LEAGUE
or9anisers, won 40-hour week, rate CT
SO.0U a Gay.
Fox Furnace Co., ElyrIa, Ohio-150 walked
cut when company refused pay increase
under IRA blanket code; demand G-hour
day and zoe hourly minimum.
MeKaig {; Hatch Steel Co., Buffalo, N. Y
Shcrt strike in July; return after three
leaders CT walkout were fired.
A. NJ. Dyers Co., Ambridge, Pa.-WGl
Street Journal (Aug. y reports strike CT
400 against poor wages and generally
unsatisfactory conditions.
Dubile- Condenser Corp, New York City
rs workers out, June 81, against Gem
pany's refusal to withdraw wage cut.
Closure Service Co. (Owens-Illinois Glass
Co. subsidiary, Long Island City, N. y.
ECO out in 4-day walkout late in June.
Columbia Radiator Co., McKeesport, Pa.
Some 500 foundry workers particip-
ated in one-day strike for 80 per cel.t
wage increase with S.M.W.IU. members
in lead; is per cent increase Immediately
granted.
Midland Barge Co., Midland, Pa-July
IS, press reports workers struck in this
plant
Pittsburgh Steel Foundry Corp. (Bethle-
hem Steel Corp. subsidiary, Rankin,
Pa.-Strike threat wins announcement CT
SO per cent wage increase.
bethlehem Steel Corp, Sparrows Point.
Md.-After meeting of workers on night
shift period doublers, July 81, forced the
following concession: No extra work
carrying scrap except on the warm up
turn once every three weeks.
F-eihauf Trailer Co., Detroit, Mich
350@struck July 10, against 35c-an-hour
rate and against work week sometimes
reaching 100 hours.
Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. (sub-
sidiary of Sun Oil co.,, Chester. Pa
Metal workers out, Aug. 9, against speed
UP under MIRA. Picket arrested second
day.
Murray Ohio Mfg. Co., Cleveland, Ohio
Walkout of 500 august, against wages
of &c to 10c an hour for unskilled
Coleman Bronze Co., Chicago, nl-3-day
strike tAugust) of 200 workers under
S.M.WIU. after firing OF two Lnionists.
Harsch Bronze Foundry Co., Cleveland,
Ohio-Strike when A. F. of l.. unioIlist
is fired (August).
hewin Metals Co., St Louis, Mo.--S00
Negro workers, including women, In
walkout, Aug. 4, ask 45c an hour for
common labor, and SOC for skilled, with
SMW.IU. members on picket lines.
To this impressive list must be
added the victorious struggles of the
Pressed Steel Car workers in Nc
KEGS Rocks pittsburgh area), the
chipping department Of the Bonner
plant of Republic Steel (Buffalo),
Wickwire Spencer Steel buffalo
suburb, Standard Metal North Buff
falo), Acme buffalo,, and num-
Der of successful strikes in light
metal shops in jamestown, N. Y.
What stands out in these struggles,
many Of them the first militant
Of steel and metal since
1919?
It is that practically without exc
capt,on these battles against the code
because these are what these strug-
giles essentially are-have been organ
ICED and led by the Steel and Metal
Wor,-e-'s' Industrial Union which sent
a big delegation to Washington to
protest the official steel code and
pr1sans its own amendments-tilat
have CIV become demands for which
the = ;i9s of steel and metal work crS
hsvc fought and are fighting today.
The strike struggles-every one SO
far resulting in advances for work
er5 far beyond the provisions of the
ccdo-led by the S.M.WI.U., are de-
cisiols expressed in the most deter
mined aad dramatic form of the real
Gttit-i,e Of the rank and file, crgen-
i7ad end unorganized, OF the men,
berG'l,o Ct the A. F of L. unions and
Of the treat mass of steel wof.i9rs
toward the starvation and sla1e code
Wcrisi out by the biggest steel capin
talics, their A. F. of l.. agents, and
bncisd by the demagogy and forct
Of the federal government u
The 4. F.. of L. is being permitted
a-d aided to broaden it's base so
that it can more effectively reose
cff the struggles developing Gin
vide scc,e. In the American class
struggle this has always presaged,
quite contrary to the plans of the
ruling class, great mass struggles and
class battles The present
situet'cr, far from being an excep-
ton, is being more and more nodded
into q line of class battles.
TIE S.MW,IU. is on the eve of
big and decisive struggles in the
ccael industry. In this situation the
Winning of the workers newly or
Tanized by the A. F. Of L. unions
(undee false pretenses) is strategic
necessity. We must not surrender
one single steel worker to the official1
A. +. of L. leadership.
The utmost holiness and resolu-|
ton is necessary, based ON the uni
5oubced advance of militancy and
consciousness of great masses Of
Nmcr'can workers, in challenging
the A. F. of l.. officialdom as the
ralesmcn Of the MIRA slave pact in
The rerSa of the steel workers.-BD.