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Committee of Ten
Aided VIM. Green
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tration board which, if accepted,
entrenches the company unions in
the steel mills and which robs the
steel workers of the right to strike.
The gave up their independent
power without fight and accepted
the proposal that the Tighe-Leonard
machine be put in charge of all
negotiations in Washington. Their
complete capitulation and their total
collapse as far as any fight for the
strike was concerned surprised even
the steel trust representatives =
Green, Tighe and the Roosevelt con-
ciliators who were lowering around
the convention like vultures. Green's
strategy was directed toward 30
day postponement of the strike. But
even this time limit on the negotia-
tons with Roosevelt was not fought
for by the Committee of Ten. In
stead they called off the strike in
definitely.
These district leaders did not want
the strike. They had no faith in
the steel workers They were too
cowardly to accept any leadership
or make any fight. When Forbeck,
head Of the Committee of Ten, told
the Daily Worker, There are no
differences between us and Tighe,"
he spoke the literal truth.
The Committee of Ten has
Shamful record of betrayal
and treachery. The Committee of
Ten almost at once after the April
conference accepted Tighe's leader
ship. They dropped all of the seven
economic demands for which the
steel workers demanded strike to
remedy their grievances. The Com
mittee of Ten turned the strike
threat into futile negotiations in
Washington. They backed the COM
pany union Wagner bill. They
praised Roosevelt and the MIRA.
At this convention the rapid trek
Of the Committee of Ten to the
Tighe- Green camp was completed.
To this day this Committee of Ten
did not take one single simple step
to prepare for a strike. They have
now held themselves up to the con-
tempt of every steel worker. As an
independent force, as a So-called
progressive opposition in the A.A.
they are entirely bankrupt. They
are now tail to the Tighe- Green
kite, the most powerful support of
the Tighe machine. They supported
Tighe'S red scare and are helping
Tighe split their own union by re-
jecting the united front proposals
of the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union. They have tricked
and fooled and betrayed the steel
workers.
There was in this convention a
small minority which voted against
the Green proposals and who want
ed to struggle. But it must be
frankly stated that the steel work
ers who were demanding strike were
not represented at this convention
by any organized opposition. Those
honest rank and file elements who
voted against Green's proposals we're
too unorganized, too split up and
isolated by the Committee of Tens
treachery to make any effective
fight. They were not organized.
They had no leadership within the
convention.
The Committee of Sixteen which
was appointed by Tighe to consider
what action to take had on it two
or three men who were opposed to
Green's proposal. But the man
on this committee who should have
led the fight, who had the ability
to break through and voice the de-
mandS of the steel workers for fight
for their economic demands, C. E.
Allen of Indianapolis, did not put up
real fight. He did not even bring
minority report into the conven-
ton from the Committee of Six
teen. He did not put any fight
worthy Of the name on the conven-
ton floor, but to all effects, capitu-
lated like the others of the Commit
tee of Ten to the Tighe- Green pro-
posals.
This decision OF the A. conyen-