The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-12
Takers Angry At Move
Toward Unity of All
Steel Workers


works hand in hand with former
City Safety-Director Kramer (who
tried to break up the unemployed
hunger march and whom the Mas
silon workers had to kick out of
office)-these three TALL of them on
Tighe's payroll, led the attack on
the SM.WIU. delegation. The
honest workers at the conference,
not understanding clearly what it
was all about, never had a chance
to hear us present our proposals for
UNITED ACTION. The reaction
airy motion to bar us from the Con-
ference was railroaded without even
giving the SM.W.I.U. delegates a
chance to answer the false attacks.
Unity in Struggle Can Still Be
Achieved!
Does this mean that all chance
for united action is gone. MOI BY
no means. But it does mean that all
who believe in it must WORK for
it.
The Role of the n. r. A. and the
National Labor Board
AS long as we let things slide, no
one will help us. The working-man
never got thing he didn't fight
for (unless the boss knew we were
prepared to fight and for this rea-
son he gave in The A. A. leaders
tells us, "Wait-the government will
help you" But the government
gave us the MIRA. steel code which
was, in reality, the Steel Trusts
Code. The National Labor Board
gave the Weirton workers lot of
phony promises. broke their strike.
and sent them back to work with
out wage increases and without rec
ignition of their union-just like it
broke the strikes of the Budd
workers, the Ford workers, the New
York hotel workers and New York
and Philadelphia taxi and trans
port workers.
Refuse To Give up The Right
To Strike!
The NR.A., the Nib, the A.A.
and the whole A. F.. of L. leadership
want us to give up our right to
strike. We can't give UP our right to
strike. The organized mass strike
is labor's strongest weapon. We
must be ready to use it, under rank
and file control, with mass picket
lines, whenever it is necessary. To
give up that right is for the unions
to commit suicide. We must pre-
pare to use the strike weapon to
win the demands listed above.
The S. M. w. I. u. Internationally
Supported the WeirtOn Strike!
Brothers in the A. A.! Don't be
fooled by reactionary takers who
get paid 10 tell you we are bucking
you. We are with you, solid. We
proved our sincerity by uncondi-
tiOnally supporting the WeirtOn
strike, even though the men were
demanding recognition of the A. A.
We are against Michael Tighe. Ed
Miller, Lombard and certain other
leaders of the A. A. because they
have Systematically betrayed the
interests of the A. A. membership
and the steel workers generally.
They Sabotaged the 1919 strike,
broke the 1923 strike, put over
wage-cut after wage-cut IN the
union mills during the last few
years, losing almost every strike
the A. A. conducted from 1919 to
1884, and, while the A. A. members
were heroically fighting in Weirton
in 1888, Tighe and Miller knitted the
strikers in the back saying, "This is
an outlaw strike. A wildcat strike.
You men had to right to strike"
They told the strikers to stay
away from the mill gates $50 the
scabs could get i'm and refused to
spread the strike to nearby mills
that wanted to come out in support
of the Weirton strikers. We are
against such niSleaders because we
are for the rank and file first, last
and always.
s. M. W. I. q. Won 40 Strikes In
1888
But We don't ask you A. A. mem
bers to leave the A. A. and Join our
union. Nor do we want to leave our
union and join the A. A. We can
cooperate without that. Our union
is built and controlled by the rank
and file. We don't have to fight
our officials to get action. The re-
suit is that we won about 40 strikes
last year, winning higher wages,
better conditions and recognition in
plants in every major district
Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New York,
Ohio, Chicago, st. Louis, Connecti-
cut, etc.
Can We afford to let few re-
dictionary agents of Republic Steel
Corp. stand in the way of the fight
ing unity Of the steel workers. MOI
Brothers in the A. AL Organize
rank and file committees in your
lodges to fight for policies of united
action. Kick out any Officials who
stand in your way. Don't wait for
official approval! We can start at
once to set up these joint commit
tees m the departments for united
action.
Unorganized workers, join the
fighting Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union at once-help to
build it up in your department.
To. all Republic Steel Corp.
Workers: We pledge to fight for
the above demands until they are
won, and to cooperate sincerely with
any and all groups of organized and
unorganized Republic workers who
are willing to work with us for such
a program.
(Signed) Republic Local No. sol,
S. M. W. I. u. 266 Federal st.
youngstown, Ohio.