The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-22
Strike Action Follows Bloody Police
Attack on Transfers; Steel Workers
Put Wage Demands to Employers
Steel and Metal Union
Urges Unity of All
Steel Men
NJ AXE DEM ANDS
Joint Committees in ALI
Mills Needed

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May
21.-The Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union to-
day broadcast a call, in many
thousands of copies, for i'm
mediate preparation of mass
strikes in the steel industry.
The S. M. w. I. U. calls for joint
action of all unorganized workers,
members of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation Of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers "a. F. of L. and of its own
union, to win six demands from the
companies.
These six demands we're to be
presented today to the steel COM
panies by the Amalgamated Asso-
citation Lodges and the S. M. w. I.
U. locals. The call of the S. M. w.
T. U. called for joint action not
only in the presenting of the de-
mands but in the preparation Of
the coming strike struggles.
The text of the S. M. w. 7. us
call follows:
National Secretary, Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union
To all steel workers, organized and
unorganized, irrespective Of union
affiliation:
Brothers and Fellow Workers:
The time for action has come. We
can wait no longer. Everywhere the
workers are striking for better con-
ditions. They are fighting for higher
wages, shorter hours, the right to
organize and for union recognition.
All steel workers must join in the
fight for these demands.
Through five years of depression
the employers have cut our earn
ings through lay-offs, part-time
work, wage cuts, and through the
speed-up, and in general have low
cred our standards of living while
the cost of living has been increased
and the employers have increased
their profits.
To this we must call an imme-
diate halt. This can only be done
through organization and strike.
Every steel worker knows and agrees
this is so.
Strike Sentiment Grows
Steel workers everywhere are talk
ing strike. The probability of q
strike involving even more workers
than the great strike of 1919 is now
on the order of the day. The 1919
strike, so we'll organized and led by
that great militant leader, VIM. z.
Foster, was sabotaged and thereby
defeated by the officials of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron.
Steel and Tin Workers "a. F. of L.
and the officialdom Of the A. F.
of L.
These same officials have since
helped to maintain the intolerable
conditions in the industry and have
made no serious efforts to organize
the steel workers.
With the coming of the N. R. A.,
these same leaders told the steel
workers not to fight, but to rely on
the N. R. A. Labor Board and the
President for improvement of their
conditions. Today every steel worker
can see this was a betrayal of our
interest. Every steel worker knows
what the code for the steel industry.
signed by the A. F. of L. leaders and
the government. brought to the steel
workers. Especially do the Weirton
workers know what to expect from
the N. r. A. and the President.
The N. r. A. legalized starvation
wages, increased the speed-up for
the workers, was responsible for
the growth Of the company unions,
ard the increased terror in strikes.
The small increases in wages that
have been won by the steel workers
were only won through the threats
Of strikes, and the militant strikes
led by the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union. in Ambridge, Nc
KEGS Rocks. Buffalo, and other GEN.
tiers, as well as through the strikes
of the rank and file of the A. A.
in Weirton and Clarion. But al
ready the bosses have taken away
these gains through the high prices
the New Deal has brought.
The employers have used many
schemes to keep us from organizing,
they have set up company unions,