The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15
Workers Walking Out
In Defiance Of A. F. OIL.
Leaders, n. r. A. Boards
W Orkers Must Take
Strikes in Own Hands
to Stop Betrayals
0 re A ME
United Front Against
Fascist Rise Needed
BY CARL REEVE

With unexampled mill
fancy, the workers of the
United States are driving for
ward in a rapidly swelling
strike wave. The forceful
impact of the strike wave of
hundreds of thousands of
workers is centered in basic indus
tries and in key war industries.
In the marine industry. twenty
thousand longshoremen in the Gulf
and Pacific ports and now in the
port of New York, are striking, in
addition to several thousand seamen
under the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union.
Eight thousand Alabama ore min
ers are on strike, together with hun
dreds of Alabama steel workers.
coal miners, food workers, etc.
More than five thousand Butte,
Montana, copper miners, smetler
workers and engineers are striking.
and the iron ore miners Of the great
Mesaba range are preparing TO
strike next month.
Extent of Strikes
The delegates to the national con-
vention of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers GA. F. of L., sweeping aside the
Iighe machine, voted to prepare
strike action in June, if their de-
mands are not met.
More than four thousand aircraft
workers, holding up orders for war
and air-mail craft, are on strike in
Buffalo and Hartford.
In the coal mining industry, on
the heels of the strike of 10000 soft
coal miners of West Virginia and
$1,000 soft coal miners of Alabama.
come struggles in Kansas, Ken
lucky and elsewhere.
Six thousand Flint, Mich. Fisher
Body workers are on strike, tieing
up the V Buick plant as we'll
In all parts of the country. in
every industry. packing house, auto,
Steel food, shoe and textile workers,
miners and mechanics, oil workers
etc, are striking.
Demands
The workers of the United States.
in what is fast developing into the
biggest strike wave in the country's
history, are demanding higher
wages, shorter hours, against the
speed-up and union recognition.
Wages, increased at best only
slightly under the N. R. A., have in
reality been reduced because of the
inflationary measures of the NR.A.,
and because of the more than 20
per cent increase to the workers in
the cost of living. Wage increases
have not kept pace with high living
costs. Speed up has been intensified
with back breaking pressure on the
workers. The promise of the Roose-
welt administration regarding the
workers right to organize" the
promises to recognize the union
of the workers own choice" are now
worn so thin that they can be seen
through.
In this strike wave, the National
Labor Board stands forth as the
strikebreaking, union smashing ma
chinery of the employers. The de-
cision of the Roosevelt government
in the auto industry, engineered
personally by Roosevelt, and the
later strikebresking acts of the
Auto Labor Board, have shown up
the demagogy of Roosevelt. This
decision, dictated by General Mo-
tors, and put over with the aid of
the A. F. of L. leaders, held off a
general strike in the auto industry
until the peak production period
had passed. The Labor Board de-
cision, which sent the Fisher Auto
Body strikers back to work without
winning their demands, dominated
by company unions, and under COM
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