The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-30
Ttghe Prepares Steel
Workers Betrayal

ACTION is in full swing by the Roose-
"A welt government and the international
officials of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers GA. F. of
L. to prevent the strike of the steel work
ers, scheduled for next month. Mike
Tighe, international president of the A.
F. of L. steel union, has gone to Washington to
fer with Hugh johnson and Robert Wagner, heads
of the MIRA. and the National Labor Board
The purpose of this meeting is clear. Mike
Tighe is opposed to the strike. At the recent con-
vention of the Amalgamated Association, Tighe
pleaded with the delegates not to vote for "offen-
sive action" if the demands are not granted. II
am against it," he said. He opposed presentation of
the economic demands along with the demands for
union recognition He opposed any organization for
strike activity. ct wash my hands of the whole
business Tighe said when the convention over his
head elected a Committee Of Ten, empowered to
call the strike.
Now Tighe. seeing that the masses of steel work
ers are demanding struggle, comes out claiming to
be the leader of the strike movement.
The strategy of Tghe is clear. He wants to
dominate and shove aside the Committee of Ten
elected by the convention. He wants to eliminate
all demands except the one demand for union recog-
milton. He wants to force the strikers to accept
MIRA. and Roosevelt arbitration, and prevent the
strike just Collins and Green worked with Roose-
welt and the Auto Labor Board and prevented
strike in the auto industry. Tighe is trying to be-
head the strike before it starts.
Tighe is especially trying to prevent the unity
Of the steel workers for joint strike action as pro-
posed by the Steel and Metal Workers Union.
All of the forces opposed to the workers and
their demands are working feverishly against the
steel workers. and to prevent the strike Roosevelt
WaUn
pany union bill
They call in Tighe to plan how to prevent the
strike. The steel companies have meanwhile re-
jected the demands of the steel workers. They
brazenly state that they will maintain their com
pany unions the authority of the NRA and
the Labor Boards.
The struggle of the workers of Toledo and Min
neapols, together with the coming steel strikes
has prompted the employers and their government
to greatly increase the terror against the workers
The armed forces of the government are being pre-
pared.
And Mike Tighe is cooperating with the Roose-
welt government to betray the workers to NRA
elections" which will saddle the workers with COM
pany unions.
The steel workers should Immediately organize
their struggle on the basis of the complete unity
of all steel workers.
The rank and file of the "A should at once
to brush aside Mike Tighe and prepare the strike
on the basis of their own elected committees
Only by striking the steel workers win their
demands
Joint action committees elected by all the work
in the MILL regardless of union aliation should
be set up at once. The members of the "A and
the unorganized steel workers must act on the unity
call of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union
The steel workers can win their demands if they
take their coming strikes into their own hands and
once and for all reject the treacherous Mike T1ghe
and reject arbitration of the Roosevelt govern
ment Boards which would lead them to defeat.
Steel workers! Unite your forces! Repudiate the
misleader Mike Tighe, who tried to sell out the
1919 steel strike.
Fight for all your economic demands Unite
with the unemployed steel workers
Reject arbitration For the right to strike
Against the company unions, For union recogni-
ton Prepare for united strike action