The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-08
Steel Workers, Beware of
the Roosevelt MdneuVerS!

THE stage is being set for President
1 Roosevelt to head off the steel strike
personally in the same manner that he
headed off the auto strike. From Wash
ington comes the news that Roosevelt is
preparing to set up a steel labor board just
as he set up the Auto Labor Board. All
the forces of the government the steel corporations
and the A. F. Of L. officials are driving in that
direction.
The steel workers should recall what happened
in the auto industry There was the same pre-
liinary conferences between the auto code author
ity" dhe Automotive Manufacturers Association
and the NR.A. heads. The same deadlock existed.
Then President Roosevelt came forward and with
the help of the A. F. of L. officials and the auto
manufacturers, set up the Auto Labor Board
It was Roosevelt who personally delayed the
auto strike, decided on by the auto workers,
til production had passed its peak. 1t was Roose-
welt who engineered the agreement with the A. F.
of L. officials and the employers whereby the right
to strike was taken from the auto workers and
compulsory arbitration" Of the Labor Board put
in its place 1t was Roosevelt who signed the agree
ment whereby the company unions (Which the
workers are forced to john were given the back
ing Of the Auto Labor Board
And it was Roosevelt who robbed the workers
of their demands for union recognition and higher
wages, by setting up this compulsory arbitration
board. Subsequent events proved that the auto
workers had been sold out They did not get any
of their demands. The company unions were
brought forward The busy season was over. Mass
layoffs Of workers began. The speedup the low
wages, which are far behind the mounting cost Of
living. remain. These conditions are saddled on
the auto workers by the Auto Labor Board.
Roosevelt and johnson are following the same
of their demands. In both the auto and steel in
dustry Roosevelt gets the support of the A. F. of L.
officials Mike Tighe, president of the A. F. of L.
steel union, is straining every nerve to split the
workers ranks.
But the Committee Of Ten, Of the A. F. of L.
union also is not carrying out the tasks entrusted
to it by the Anagamated Association of Iron Steel
and Tin Workers GA F. of L. convention. In the
face Of the auto sell-out by Roosevelt, the Com
nittee of Ten praises Roosevelt and calls on him
for conferences and boards. The Committee of Ten
has not pushed the strike preparations but in
stead hangs around Washington begging Roosevelt
to intervene"
The stage is now being SET Roosevelt will step
in with the Steel Labor Board The steel COM
panies will finally "concede" The sellout will be
hailed a victory for the workers. This is the
plan to sidetracl the steel workers demands. 1t
is a strike-breaking, company union plan
The steel workers have been working under the
steel code of the N.R.A-signed and approved by
Roosevelt The rotten conditions which brought
about their decision to strike. were brought about
by Roosevelt's NR.A. code. The code has now been
renewed by Roosevelt. Since MIRA. was introduced
by Roosevelt, the company unions have grown
prices have gone up far above wages and speedup
has increased Rooseves steel CODE operated by the
code authority"-the employers-is the instrument
by which the employers have worsened the condi-
tions of the steel workers.
The steel workers can get no more out of Roose-
welt than the auto workers got The whole policy
Of the NR.A, Of the Roosevelt administration, is
strikebreaking, company union policy. Only by
their own action, by immediate preparation of
united strike action, the steel workers win their
demands. The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union has called for unity of all steel workers
with joint strike committees in every MILL for the
strike preparations.
Steel workers! Reject Roosevelt's arbitration
which will rob you Of your demands.
Elect your own committees to defeat the betrayal
moves of the Analgamated Association "a F. of L.
leaders!