The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
The Impartial Board"
in Steel

TO COMMUNISTS, as was shown in the
statement of the Central Committee
on the situation in the steel industry pub
ished yesterday, it was perfectly clear that
President Green of the A. F. of L., Mike
Tighe of the A. A, President Roosevelt,
General Johnson and his n. R. A. Con
cilistors" and the now defunct and dissraced Com
mittee Of Ten, had intention Of helping the steel
workers at any stage Of the game.
The American Iron and Steel Institute and the
steel companies it represents have been permitted
to force their employees into company unions and
take strike" votes of their employees with the
threat Of discharge and blacklist hanging over every
steel worker. Now that they have been allowed to
flood the columns of the press with news stories and
other inspired publicity to the effect that steel
workers are in love with company unionsm, the
support Of the plan for an impartial" board of
three to be appointed by RooSevelt-the agent in
the White House of the steel companies and
monopolists-by Green Tighe and other A. F. OF L.
officials becomes even more sinister The impartial
board" will be new weapon in the steel company
arsenal
The strike movement under the leadership Of
the A. A. has been halted. The surrender Of Green
and Tighe and the Committee OF Ten their in
sstence purely formal union recognition" and
the dropping of the other basic demands has been
and is still being used by the steel companies to
attempt to discredit the A. A., and the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union The steel COM
panies carrying q nation wde campaign in
the plants and mills and newspapers against out
side" organizers. They are picturng their company
unions as pure democracies.
uniOnlsm-fOr fascist unions
THE efforts of the companies are aided first Of ali
by President Roosevelt. He stands by the revised
steel CODE which gives the American Iron and Steel
Institute practically unlimited powers.
He permitted the steel companies to recruit
private armies of thugs-and to arm them against
the steel workers He permitted the steel companies
to prepare for the of civil methods against
the steel workers and their unions.
For the time being Secretary of Labor Perkins
has been delegated to handle the steel situation
Green and the A. A. officials continue to talk about
collective bargaining" elections under govern
ment supervision" etc. All this maneuvering is
intended to prevent the steel workers from rally
ing their forces to build powerful and militant
unions and united fighting front OF all steel work
for their demands.
The Steel and Metal Workers Union is not per-
mtted by the government to represent any steel
workers in Washington But it goes ahead organiz-
ing workers and exposing the defeatist policies and
maneuvers Of Green, Tighe, johnson, Perkins and
Roosevelt's N. r. A.
Right now the most effective way of aiding the
S. M. w. I. u. the rank and file of the A. A. and
all steel workers is for the Party districts and Sec
tions to reprint and distribute large numbers of the
Central Committee statement in the principal
plants and mill centers
1t will be far more difficult to betray the steel
workers the next time result of disgust of steel
workers with the leaders who put over the sur
render. Communists must expose these steel com
pany agents so effectively that further betrayal
by them will be possible. The Central Committee
statement is powerful weapon in this struggle.