The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Green in Gary Opposes
Steel Workers
Strike Plan
RANK.FME PREPARE
Steel Workers Go To
Washington
Special to the Daily Worker,

INDIANA HARBOR, In,
June 3.-With $50 delegates
already registered and more
coming in all the time. Bill
Clark of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union
opened the United Anti-Com-
pany Union Conference of the CAL
umet Steel region, here, at 2.3o this
afternoon.
The composition Of the confer
ence is very broad and many work.
ers from shop groups and indepen-
dent unions are uniting their forces
with members of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
The great majority of the delegates
are workers in the steel mills.
Many Negro workers are among the
delegates
Clark, in opening the conference,
stated that there is a rising senti-
ment for strike in the steel indus
try. I'VE are meeting here today,
to unite our forces in the fight
against company unionisn, and for
fair wages and improved co1di-
tons. Weeks Of intensive work
have preceded the conference;
weeks in which mass meetings,
delegations TO reformist unions and
personal contact have been used
daily, to weld the united front Of
steel workers"
Saturday great mass meeting
was held in South Chicago. at
which 400 workers, many of them
youths, cheered delegation Of
Toledo strikers and pledged the
support Of the South Chicago work
srs to the strike. Besides speakers
of the Steel Workers Union a dele
gate from the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union spoke.
Twenty workers joined the Steel
Union at the meeting In the
crowd were Is members Of the
Analgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, A. F. of L.
Friday night, 200 Gary workers
met, in spite OF the terrific heat,
and Armstrong, Negro steel union
organizer, won great support when
he urged unity of Negro and white
in the struggle for better conditions.
A great many Negro workers we're
present. Joe Roberts and Bill
Clark also spoke.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 3.
William Green, President of
the A. F. of L., is here today
comforting with leaders of the
Amalgamated Association of
Iron Steel and Tin Workers
CA. F. of L. in the efforts to
forestall the steel strike voted by
the delegates to the last national
convention of the A. A. This fol-
lows the line Of the A. F. Of L. Lead
ers in desperately trying to stem
the swift-running tide Of strike &C
ton.
Green, in his statement opposing
strike action, declared: I'VE refuse
to recognize any activity of a Com
munist character, We are trying to
do things the American way"
Green means by this that he is
trying to accomplish in the steel in
dustry what he played a leading
part, together with Roosevelt, in &C
compliShing in the auto industry
to prevent the workers from gaining
their demands by binding them to
arbitration of the Labor Boards.
Green's statement followed the
line of tying the unions to the N.
r. A. arbitration machinery He
said: I'VE ask that the American
workers be permitted to hold cleo
tons and decide what form of rep
resentation they want. If they want
their own union they should have
if. If they want the company union
they should have it. Let them have
no union at all if they want-but
let them say what they want"
Green here leaves the door open
for MIRA. elections" which bring
in the company union, and which
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