The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
June IA Convention of
A.A. Must Vote for
Unified Strike
JOHNSON HITS UNION
Tighe Invites Johnson
To Speak June Ia

NEW YORK.-The district
leaders Of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron. Steel and
Tin Workers GA. F. of L.,
have left Washington for
home after rejecting the open
company union plan put for
ward by General johnson and the
Iron and Steel Institute for pre-
venting the strike set for June Is.
The plan calls for an arbitration"
board Of three to settle all oues~
tions through the company unions.
The committee Of three would be
represented by the industry. the
workers and the public" This ac-
ton Of the Committee of Ten fol-
lowed a course of two weeks shillv-
shallying in Washington, during
which time no strike preparations
were made by the A, A. district
leaders.
Mike Tighe, strikebreaking presi-
dent Of the A. A., has invited Cen
eral johnson to attend and speak
to the A. A. convention which Tighs
has called to take place on June Ia,
two days before the strike date.
johnson hopes at this convention
to bludgeon the rank and file into
accepting the company union plan
or to split and confuse the workers
and thus make the strike ineffec-
tive. 1t was made known in Wash
ington that President Roosevelt is
prepared to try to delay the strike
at the last moment with some sim
liar arbitration" proposal, as he
did in the threatened auto strike.
The company union proposal
which Mike Tighe and Johnson
tried to force the district A.A. lead
ers to accept was so obviously raw
that these district leaders knew it
would be condemned by the rank
and file Of the steel workers. Their
statement to Roosevelt declared,
we understand you have left for
? weekend cruise on the Sequoia.
We wish we could join you but we
must return to our lodges to report
that all we got out Of your National
Recovery Administration and Sec
ton IA was an offer to tighten the
company union chains that bind
the workers in the steel industry.
We have lost the faith which wa
held in your administration.
Now, before the convention, with
out losing another day. the strike
must be prepared on the basis of
united strike committees in all mills
and complete unity of all steel work
ers regardless of what union they
belong to. At the convention, the
rank and file of the "A. must be
on guard against the maneuvers of
Tighe and Johnson, McGrady ct al,
to force the steel workers to accept
arbitration" of government boards
which will undoubtedly mean en-
trenchment Of the company unions.
The rank and file of the AA.
must brush Tighe aside, vote for the
strike, and actually forge the unity
of the steel workers on the basis
Of the unity call Of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
johnson, McGrady and company
the entire MIRA. machinery of
the Roosevelt government-hsve
openly revealed themselves as pur-
veyors of the company union. They
should be denied any voice what
ever in the June IA convention. This
convention has the immediate task
Of organizing the fight for the eco
nomic demands of the steel workers,
of calling the strike and organizing
it on unified basis. Otherwise,
once more, as in the auto industry,
the steel workers will find that they
will not get one Of their demands
but will get instead, the company
union backed by the government
arbitration" board, and the force
Of the steel bosses government, the
Roosevelt regime.
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 1o.-Local
leaders of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation Of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers "a. F. of L. were homeward
bound today-outmaneuversd in the
national steel strike negotiations
and with a msjority Of them still
refusing to begin active strike prep
arations.
The Roosevelt government is act
ing on the belief that the strike can
be averted by another Come to
Washington" appeal, to the A.A.
convention called for next Thursday
in surprise move by President
Big Mike" Tighe and MIRA. Adj
ministrator johnson.
Only immediate mobilization by
the men in the mills under rank
and file, united front committees
can lead to a successful strike.
Such action doubtless will be
spurred by at least four or five Of
the local A. A. leaders, who saw
through the Washington negotia-
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