The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03

June convention of the union, at
the suggestion Of william Green.
Tighe's Gag Rule
The Tighe machine is prepared,
however, for the next convention
and will do everything possible to
enforce the gag rule and bar rank
and file delegates. He was asked
whether delegates from new lodges
or those not paid up in their per
capita tax to the international
lodge, will be seated at the coming
convention, to be held in Canton.
Ohio, April Is, 1885.
I'VE have a certain mode of pro-
cedure,' stated the A. A. head
which provides that delegates can
not be seated from lodges which
are not paid up by Dec. 31st. The
last time this was not enforced, and
I don't know whether that was a
wise move. This time, however, the
international executive board will
determine whether it shall be en-
forced, and we will see that it is
In the last two conventions,
thousands of members were depriv-
ed of vote because all interna-
tional dues were not fully paid up
by their lodges, and would be aimed
at throttling all rank and file sem
timent in the convention.
In the alst two conventions,
Tighe thinks the rank and file got
out of line" by talking strike.
Tighe Explains"
At this point he entered into a
long explanation of the reason why
rank and file delegates at the time
talked strike: these workers had
been working for so many years in
non-union shops that their first
reaction on entering the union was
to become belligerent toward the
employers (horrorsD; many of
them felt they had been imposed
on by the employers Gin their
minds)";; it was a sort of freedom
of the spirit asserting itself, etc.
But don't you suppose their low
wages, the sped-up, poor working
conditions were responsible for their
determination to force concessions?H
Tighe admitted, reluctantly enough,
that these things probably had
something to do with their attitude. .
President Tighe declared:
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opposed to those of the employ
ers', if the employers will only see
that. If they (the employers
would only take it into their heads
to sit down around a conference
table, we could then discuss our
mutual problems, because they are
mutual problems, there is an i'm
Independence between the inter-
ests of the workers and those of
the employer. The coal operators
discovered, after they began to use
them, that mediation boards are
in the interests Of employers.
But as yet the steel companies
have refused to see this. They all
seem to be connected by hidden
force which opposes the Board
and its decisions, they all take the
same attitude"
DO you, at any time, favor
strikes?"
NO." answered Tighe, 81 am
opposed to strikes on general
principles"
Then, probably realizing that this
blanket statement sounded pretty
raw, even coming from an A. A
leader, who lets Bill Green do the
negotiating" for his union, he at
tempted weak qualification. He
excepted those cases in which "the
employer takes despotic attitude!'
TOO Much Zeal"
He remarked that many of the
A. A. organizers displayed "too much
zeal' in telling the workers that the
President, in Section Ia, had is
sued challenge to the workers
to organize into outside unions. HE
didn't issue any such challenge y
Cat the Aliquippa hearings the j. g.
L. attorney objected strenuously to
this challenge" language used in
an A. A. leafet).
us it true" your correspondent
asked, that in those places where
the Amalgamated has written
contract with employers, the wage
for the workers is set on a sliding
scale based upon the market price
of bar and sheet iron?"
Eyes" he replied, then entered
into an explanation of the arrange
ment by which the Amalgamated
Association, for 80 years has taken