The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
The Counter Offensive
In Steel

ME Daily Worker publishes today a
statement by the Central Committee
If the Communist Party to steel workers.
The statement deals in a clear-cut manner
with the question of the immediate de-
mands and struggles of steel workers in
connection with the Communist way out
Of the crisis.
The statement makes plain the class forces in
volved in the organization and strike movement
it correctly places in a Marxist-Leninist manner
all individuals and groups of leaders taking part
in choking off the strike and the betrayal Of the
interests Of the steel workers in relation to their
class position and class loyalties.
In its statement the Central Committee shows
that the demands of the workers can be won
only by the rank and file establishing leader
ship which rejects the false and disastrous idea
that the interests Of the steel barons and steel work
ers are the same, and by widespread organization
In all decisive plants and mills coupled with deter
minstion and militant action by the steel workers.
The primary need Of the steel workers is unity
the united fighting front of all steel workers. No
dependence can be placed on President Roosevelt
and his government representing the interests of
monopoly capital. The influence of President Green
of the A. F. of L., of his fellow misleaders, who
are soldly attached to the strikebresking machn-
without struggle of the Committee of Ten shows
that words alone are not an accurate gauge by
which to measure the honesty, ability and courage
of leaders.
The deeds of Green Tighe, the Committee of
Ten, and of President Roosevelt, johnson and the
rest of the union-wreeing of capitalist repre-
sentatiyes speak for themselves. They speak far
louder than their words Of friendship for the steel
workers.
by their deeds We shall know them" Lenin said
that every deed has its own logic The logic Of
these deeds leads to lining up with the overords of
iron steel and coal against the steel workers their
organizations against the whole working class and
its unions. 1t means company unionism If the
program of surrender foisted upon the steel work
ers by the Roosevelt government and its official
labor leaders is not repudiated and defeated by
the steel workers. 1t means lower wages, more I'M
employment, worse working conditions and still
more rapid lowering Of living standards. 1t means
more tyranny in the company towns.
Every district, section and unit of the Commu-
mist Party in the steel areas is called upon to give
the greatest possible circulation to todays issue
of the Daily Worker, calling special attention Of
steel workers to the &C, statement
More than this Every district and section is
urged to have the &C statement printed in lea1et
form, to distribute large numbers of them inside
the plants and in the communities where steel
workers live 1t is especially important to get
good distribution in the outright company towns.
Comrades, get busy! Take the lead in the or
ganization of the counter-ofenSive of the steel
workers against their misleaders against the steel
barons, against the government of the steel barons
and their capitalist kindred. The Daily Worker
expects and will demand regular reports Of the
progress and results of this important work