The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-28
Steel, Metal Union
Assails Green Plan
In Capital Hearing
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destinies Of the firms in the indus
try, but over consumers of steel
transportation agencies and the
economic welfare and destinies Of
entire working class communities.
Under the N. r. A. the steel com
panies have been permitted to force
some IS per cent Of their EMPLOYEES
into company unions.
Before the retreat of the A. A
leadership at its special convention
in Pittsburgh, when strikes in the
industry seemed probable, steel
companies recruited private armies
through detective agencies in the
larger cities, bought and stored
quantities Of arms and ammunition.
gas bombs etc. The steel companies
have never denied the numerous re-
ports in the press that they were
terrifying their plants and prepar-
ing what would have amounted to
civil war against the steel workers
and their sympathizers, their Or
CARNATIONS and their families.
These preparations could not
have been carried out without the
knowledge and consent of the CITY.
county and state governments and
Of the federal government.
The steel companies were per-
mitted to carry through elections Of
their employees under complete
company supervision and control.
They were permitted even to take
so-called strike votes"-an I'M
heard of proceeding even in the
steel industry notorious for its
open-shop policy and suppression
Of all elementary political rights in
its company towns and other com
munities which it dominates. Taken
as a whole these anti-labor actiu-
ties of the steel companies consti-
tute the open use Of fascist methods
against workers and their organ
izationS.
THE N. r. A. has been used to
lower the living standards of
the workers and to make worse con-
dltlons already almost unbearable.
Where improvements have occurred
they have been won only through
resolute struggle by workers and
their organizations and in the face
Of the most widespread organized
use of force and suppression ever
seen in this country. The strong
tendency for all important strikes
to develop toward general strikes in
the present period is proof that
workers no longer depend on N. r.
A. and its clause IA to improve
their conditions. They are right.
But even the gains won by or
ganization and determined strikes
are taken away through price in
creases and the general rise in the
cost of living. On the other hand
profits show an enormous increase.
The N, R. A. itself, and all the
subsequent decisions under it, such
as the auto code, the auto settle
ment Of last winter, and now the
working out of the revised steel
code, etc, have only served to
strengthen company unioniSm,
while the efforts to workers to or
ganize and better their conditions,
have been met with mass arrests,
Imprisonment, clubbing and shoot
ing gown of workers at the hands
of the various government agencies
and the various employing concerns.
THEREFORE,, we have not come
L here to ask the government re-
sponsible for these conditions to
right the wrongs, injustices, the in
dignities and the tyrannies under
which steel workers suffer. Neither
do we have any faith that such
leadership as that of President
Green of that of Mike Tighe of
the A A. will be on the side of the
workers in the inevitable and
growing struggle between capital
and labor in the steel industry and
throughout this country. These
leaders and others who are serving
on the strike breaking and COM
pany union supporting N. r. A.
Boards and code authorities, have
not, do not and will not act in the
interests of the workers, Their
continual retreats and needless
compromises with the employers,
their clamor for high dues, their
dropping of wage and hour de-
mands, their continual attempts to
strangle all expression Of the rank
and file, have furnished the steel
companies in the American Iron