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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

lions from a general policy.
AS long as these gentry sink them
selves in distractions, as long as
they make no connection between
the social revolution and struggles
for practical demands, that is. as
long as they do not make a clear
connection between the struggles
and the immediate interests of sec
tions of the working class and the
general interests of the whole class
the necessity for preparation for
the conquest of government power
the ruling class can prove its devo-
ton to democratic procedure by
these examples of freedom of
speech, liberation" etc.
Similarly, it is possible for
"revolutionists" of this type to
work" in unions dominated by
openly reactionary officials, or by
more skillful bureaucrats who
parade as militants, and be welcome.
They have full freedom to denounce
capitalism in the abstract-espe-
cially if, as is the case with the
American Workers Party, Trotzky-
ties and LovestoniteS. this is COM
bined with unrestricted SANDER of
Communists and the Communist
Party. The Socialist Labor Party
ties have been doing this for years
without getting into any serious
conflict with officialdom.
But if the desirability of the over
throw of capitalism and the only
method of doing it, the constant
effort to prepare the working class.
in all its struggles, for the final
battle, is connected with the STRAIT
egg and tactics of the daily conflicts
with employers, this involves the
naming and classification of leaders
of the labor movement, their iden-
LITIGATION either with the revolu-
tionary forces or with the forces
against the working class.
Since the rapid growth of the
militant labor movements; the or
ganization of the unorganized mil
lions of workers in basic industry
Qike steel and metaD in unions con-
trolled by workers and not by the
corporations and their open and
secret agents; substantial increases
in real wages, abolition of the speed
up, and improvement in working
conditions, are incompatible with
the needs of declining capitalism
for an unorganized and beaten
working class; for low wages. star
Yation relief for the unemployed
lin order to keep them as threat
to the employed, the union leaders
who reject the class struggle In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23

union never takes up such questions
as the speed-up. Even the COM
pany union representative who
wanted to represent the men knows
he would be fred if he presented
any grievances. The company
union has never even held meet
ing, to my knowledge. I was never
called to any company union meet
ing. The men feel they have no
union. They do not consider the
company union as a union at all.
They know it represents only the
company"
The Sharon Steel Hoop Co. (near
Youngstown has four mills with
several thousand workers. A worker
told what happened when the
worker esented petition
through the company union. Il am
getting paid 48 cents an hour. I
work forty-eight hours a week, -
this worker said TN my depart
ment almost every one of us signed
petition against the speed-up. We
gave it to the company union Of
fetal. When We didn't hear any
thing we asked him what happened.
He answered, the superintendent
said if you don't like the condi-
tons here you can get out. He said
anyone not satisfied can go and
get his pay We got no results out
of the company union"
Badge No. On Ballot
In the Republic mill in Youngs-
town. the workers voted in the
elections. On each voters ballot
his badge number was printed. This
meant that the secret" ballot gave
the employers the information as
to how every worker voted If he
voted for someone not a company
tool he would be in danger of firing
and blacklist.
The company union was in the
forefront in the recent preparations
to break the strike. In the Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube Co. the men
were called into the Office and told
by the superintendent and the COM
pany union officials, IF you can't
get to work because of a strong
picket line, telephone us at the
Office, If you don't telephone, we
will know that you are on strike
and you will be discharged imme-
diately."
One worker in a Youngstown mill
told how he had been forced to
act as company guard. He was
called in on Thursday and told he
had been selected for guard duty. 81
was given gum" he said, "and
told that I must report for guard
duty at the gate on Friday night.
the date Of the strike call. I am
a former miner. If I went home and
told them I had acted as a mill
guard I would have been killed.
made up my mind that I would
refuse. I went down to the mill
Friday and was told that they had
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
By BILL GEBERT


WILLIAM GREEN, President of the
W American Federation Of Labor
at the convention Of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers in Pittsburgh, de-
clared:
"T recommend an impartial
board Of three members he APP
pointed by the President Of the
United States, clothed with su-
thority to act"
To act to put heavy chains upon
the steel workers in the service of
the coal barons and the Roosevelt
government. This recommendation
of Green was not only recon-
mendation. 1t was an ultimatum!
He openly declared to a cor
respondent of the capitalist press,
after he made that recommends
ton" that II told them, (meaning
the delegates at the convention)
that not only urge them to accept
the proposal, but insisted they ac-
cepted."
Mike Tighe and his whole inter
national officialdom. together with
the much noisy So-called Rank and
File Committee Of Ten, headed by
Forbeck agreed. The responsibility
for this rests mostly with the Com
mittee of Ten which as the early
votes at the convention showed, had
the majority of the delegates sup
port, but who miserably betrayed
and fully supported the betrayal
cooked and prepared by the agents
of the bosses in the ranks Of the
working class.
What the steel workers can eX-
pect from the proposed impartial
board of three members" which is
to be appointed by the President of
the United States has already been
told by Gen. Hugh s. johnson in his
speech at the convention of the In
ternational Ladies Garment Workers
Union in the Morrison Hotel, Chi
cago, on the evening of June 9th,
fully week before Green proposed
the appointment of an impartial
board" In that speech Hugh S.
johnson declared:
when men talk about a mini
mum wage of 81 an hour for a
30-hOur week In the steel industry,
they are advocating indirectly a
great increase in the cost and
price of steel--but with more than
100000 workers out of employ
ment, and agriculture PROSTATE, a
sizeable vertical MAKEUP in the
price of steel would curtail pro-
ductiOn in that and nearly every
other great industry in the coun-
try. 1t would give us a new wave
of unemployment and perhaps
ruin the whole recovery move
ment."
This brazen statement of General
Johnson shows very clearly the role
of the Roosevelt RIA. New Deal
Administration. General Johnson
sees in the demand for increase of
wages up to $50 week for steel
worker as calamity and utmost COL
lapse of the capitalist system. He Is
so excited that such a demand
would cut the big dividends of the
bosses that he goes practically into a
panic and he sees in this demand
for $50 week for steel workers
motives of Communist politics" If
the demand for the 30-hour week
and q dollar an hour is Commu-
mist politics then half million
steel workers are Communists, be-
cause this is their demand. For
this demand they were preparing
and ready for strike.
The betrayal of the steel workers
by the coal miner" Green and
steel worker" Mike Tighe tempo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
BY BILL DUNE
REVOLUTIONARY

A REVOLUTIONARY workers
"A party has the responsibility of
pointing out the path to victory for
its class in its daily battles to main
tain and improve its economic and
social position, as we'll as in the
coming struggle for power, to lead
the daily struggles in this direction
Policies and tactics cannot be
separated from the individuals.
groups and parties who advocate
and use them, and who neces-
ssrily represent, more or less clearly,
the social forces involved in the
struggle.
1t is, therefore, necessary to
furnish names and addresses when
questions of policy. strategy and
tactics for the working class and
its organizations are being dis
cussed and fought out. Otherwise
such discussions are meaningless so
far as the effect on the labor move
ulSflJ 10 COIlC6TneQ.
1t has been demonstrated in the
United States time and again that
academic advocacy of the theory of
the class struggle and support of
the social revolution in the abstract.
Is not only tolerated by the Ameri-
can ruling class and its government,
but at times, especially in periods of
intense class struggles, is actually
welcomed. Jealous and ignorant
policemen and fanatical fascist
types cannot be expected to under
stand this policy of the ruling class
and occasionally arrest or even
nsltreat these verbal revolutionists.
But these incidents are not the
result Of policy-they are devia-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
Company Union Has
Elections at Point
of Gun In Steel Mills

Editors Note-AnOther article
on conditions in the Youngstown
Pittsburgh steel area by Carl
Reeve, who has inst spent a week
in the steel districts. will appar In
Mondays Daily Worker. The next
article will deal with the terror of
the steel companies and the gov
eminent against the steel workers.
BY CARL REEVE
THE Tighe- Committee Of Ten ma
l chine Of the Amslgamated As
ISOLATION OF Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers. having dropped all the
economic demands Of the steel work
ers, is now talking about govern
ment controlled elections" These
AA officials called off the strike for
which the steel workers were wait
ing, and propose that Roosevelt
appointed board of three be given
power to call and hold elections to
decide on the workers representa-
tives as well as "srbitrate" all dis
putes. This proposal of Green and
the IA officials gives up the right
to strike.
Elections" have Just been held
in all the steel companies. "elec-
tons by the company unions, fol-
lowing strike vote by these
company unions. 1 asked many
steel workers from mills in the
Youngstown Canton district what
they thought of these elections"
and Of the company union.
kilograms have just been printed
IN the newspapers. a steel worker
from the sheet mill in Newcastle,
Ohio, said, which eight company
union men, along with those from
other cities, signed. These tele-
grams said the men wanted the
company union and were satisfied
with conditions There was hell
to pay next day. The workers
never saw the telegram which
claimed to speak for them. The
company union never even called a
meeting to discuss it. The men are
not satisfied with conditions either
at the radiator works or at the
sheet mill. In both mills the work
ers have not even been allowed to
bunch up. If few OF us get to-
gether, guard or a company union
ofhcial comes along and says come
on now, move on. you know its
against the rules to bunch up The
men want a six-hour day"
In the youngstown Sheet and
Tube Co., the largest mill in
Youngstown, hiring several thou
sand workers, an election" was
held week ago. one worker in
this mill said to me: IT had to
vote. I didn't want to vote. and
stayed away from the booth. But a
company union official came and
got me and said you didn't vote
vet If I didn't vote I would lose
my jog. We don't know who the
nominees are. I didn't know who
I was voting for. They are just
unknown names and badge num-
bers to most of us"
Another worker from this mill
told about the speedup. They
have a double speed-up system in
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube -
he said. The pusher is supposed
to keep up production and speed
the workers up. He is fired if the
production is not kept up. At the
same time, the inspector has to
keep up quality. and he is fired if
the quality is not kept up. This
puts terrible pressure on the men.
They have to produce a lot, and
keep up the quality at the same
time or they're fired"
The speed-up is our worst griev-
ance, another worker in the Sheet
and Tube said. "The company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
"Leting the Reformists Expose Themselves

1t Is the duty Of revolutionary
party to expose leadership which
Is really compromising and re-
formist and to win the masses
away from such leadership. But
how Is this to he done? CHIEFLY
AND MOST EFFECTIVELY BY
LETTING THE REFORMIST
LEADERS EXPOSE THEM
SELVES, WHICH THEY ARE
CERTAIN TO DO SOONER OR
LAT Err, AND UALLY
SOONER,
"A. J. Music in Tactics Of the
United Front, published May l,
1884.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-05

This city money is carefully and eco
nonucalLy expended by the directors
of the Chamber of Commerce and
the City Council E. to make Ell Cen
tro gr0GO.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-11
SHOULD BE A CODE FOR THE
FARMERS

(The Country Press, Moorheadl
agriculture like any other in
dustry of the United States, must be
given a CODE" said Governor Floyd B.
Olson at the conference of governors
recently. Agriculture, the basic in
dustry of the United States, and the
direct source of livelihood of $4,000
900 people in the United States, has
suffered more than any other group
by reason of the present depression.
In fact the depression of agriculture
commenced in 1920, and has continued
since that time. The virtual destruc-
ton of its buying power has not only
impoverished it, but has also ieOpar-
died the security of all other groups
within the United States. Unless
drastic steps are taken at once to re-
lieve it's conditions, it's members will
not only become entirely pauperized.
but they will drag down into poverty
other groups who are dependent upon
their buying power for their security
and prosperity. We believe that GER
tain immediate action. supplementary
to action taken by the National Ad-
ministration is imperative"
A code that would apply to the
farming industry and be of help in
lifting agriculture out of the mire Of
the depression was devised by the gov
errors conference as follows:
Apply only to farmers.
BE administered by representa-
tives Of their own choosing in CO.
operation with the representatives Of
the federal government and of con-
sumers.
C-Authorize the fixing of minimum
prices to the producers for basic COM
modities sold on the domestic market,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-11
DISPENSARY WILL COME

Writing on the work of the special
session of the Minnesota Legislature
brought to a close last Saturday, Sen
ator Henry G. Teigan of Minneapolis,
leading Farmer-LabOr member OF
the lawmaking body. points out tina;
the liquor control bill as passed was
not all that might be desired. The
veteran progressive was pleased with
the outcome on the public relief bill,
the tax on beer and liquor, and the
provisions made for investigation of
the two big chain bank groups of the
state by the State Securities Commits
sion.
Senator Teigan, a leader for the
adoption of the state dispenSary sys-
tem-the sale of pure liquor in origi-
nal packages only at nominal prices,
thus taking away the private profit,
the greatest incentive for evil in the
liquor traffic writes that ''The liquor
control act is. however, not in accord
with the desires of the governor and
most certainly not in accord with the
principles of the Farmer-Labor party
Speaking CT the liquor control
scheme, the senator says, lit must be
admitted that the extreme vets had
their way. They were determined to
re-establish the old saloon, or some
disguised form of it, The latter is
what was done. Every agency con-
nected with the sale of hard liquors
is of the private sort. Instead of the
state either wholesaling or retailing
liquors, private, prCfiteering interests
will do the job 1t is bit surprising
that the vets should be so blind as to
believe that this kind of thing will
be long condoned by the people of
Minnesota.
1T goes without saying" continues
the Farmer-Labor senator. that pro-
hibition didn't come upon the people
of the United States by mere accident
or resulted from the advocacy of such
scheme by fanatics and zealots.
Far from it. The disgraceful orgies
that took place in anti-prOhibition
days were more responsible for the
coming of the 18th Amendment and
the Volstead act than were the. ad-
vOcates of prohibition.
But then a years trial of the new
scheme viii probably serve to educate
the people Of Minnesota to the wisdom
of adopting a state dispensary plan
under which the prOflteers would be
eliminated and the state would con-
troll both the whOleSaling and the re-
failing end of the business"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-11
FILINGS in ORDER

With the advent of the new year
came the open season of filing for pO-
litical offices in the state of Minne-
sofa. The first man to file for the
State Senate is Representative Fred
A. Curtis of South ST. Paul, in the
Goth Legislative district. The senator
in that district now is John E. Fear
ing, also of South st. Paul. Mr.. Curtis
has served one term in the lower
house, the regular 1888 session and
the special session just closed. He
is a man of ability with a powerful
voice, sure to be heard. but does not
overtalk.
The popular speaker of the House,
Chas. Mum. Osseo farmer, is being
groomed for the Farmer-Labor NOM
ination for representative in Congress
from the Third district which includes
considerable portion of the city of
Minneapolis, rural Hennepin county,
Ancka and Wright counties. Who the
opponent or opponents. will be should
Mr.. Mum desire and secure the en-
dorsement at the spring convention.
is not yet known, but one thing is
sure and that is that the Third dis
trict will be well represented if the
voters there send the Osseo farmer to
Washington.
Mr.. Mum has shown much ability
as presiding officer of the Minnesota
House. he knows parliamentary law
and his decisions were always quick
and to the point. Not only that, but
he was hailed as being very fair by
His vote on legislation is on the side
of the people.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-11
OUTSIDE INFLUENCES

The Honorable Lawrence w. John
son of Minneapolis, a former speaker
in the Minnesota House of Represen-
tatives, was introduced one day dur
ing the recent special session by Rep.
Geo. w. Rodenberg of st. Paul, and
spoke for five minutes. Mr.. Johnson.
who served in six sessions of the Leg
islature and was speaker i'm 1907, is
still full of pep and vitality. His
first remark was that he was not here
to lobby and was against the practice
of any former member hanging
around the Legislature when
through" He spoke of liquor legisla-
tion back in his days and the great
influence exercised by distilleries
outside of Minnesota. In fact he held
that Kentucky distilleries controlled
Minnesota politics to a great extent.
He said that owners of Out-Of-State
distilleries are not local citizens and
their only interest here is to gather
in Minnesota money. Mr.. Johnson
cOmplimented Canada on it's strict en-
forcement of the liquor laws and said
that laws enacted in Minnesota must
likewise be respected and enforced.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-11

thus acquiring clear title, than to go
through all the other processes and
litigation of acquiring the land
through forfeiture.
The bill provided for exchange of
farm lands within forest areas for
other farm lands. Rep. Stockweil
also spoke of the scattered and iso-
lated settlers, that they would be far
better off If living in communities
that are fairly well established with
good roads. creameries. schools and
other necessary institutions and con-
veniences. Statistics also show that
the scattered settlers through their
isolation and loneliness contribute a
big share of the percentage of in
mates in insane asylums and such
other institutions. In his concluding
arguments, the silver-haired human
itarian representative stated that by
enacting this proposal into law the
restoration of bird life in the state
as well as better conditions. better
life for farmers and all, would be
accomplished.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-11
SILENT SENATOR BULOW
MINNEAPOLIS Tribunel

A member of the United States
senate who has never made a speech
from the floor finds himself attracting
as much attention as his colleagues
who never miss an opportunity to
make themselves heard. Since SEN
atOr Bulow of South Dakota is al
most without competition for this
unique position, that is only natural.
If the senate housed several Bu1ows,
all of whom disdained speech-making,
the gentleman from South Dakota,
would probably be less conspicuous.
Whether correctly or not, silence in
public men is esteemed as a mark of
strength and sagacity. That associa-
tiOn in ideas is undoubtedly largely
the result of the excuses INDUCED in
by the more lOQuaciOus. Those who
are always talking and the impetuous
individual who is consistently going
off half-cOcked have contributed much
OratOry is held. Without the Huey
Longs, the 'BulOws would be less con-
spicuOus and their silence would not
be the subject of national comment.
The senate has moved long way
from those days when oratoric al
ability was mark of distinction and
almost qualification for office hold
ing. Although the capable speaker
still retains much of his influence a
Webster, an Everett, Douglas or a
Calhoun is not frequently met with
in public life today.
Senator Bulow's silence is a matter
of choice. He will talk when he
thinks he can do a bit of good, change
a single vote or help his country or
his state. "Otherwise," he says, 81
see no reason to take up the senate's
time. Enough is wasted as it is"
Few men are as considerable of the
senate's time and most of them find
the senate to be a sounding board
essential to their plans for reelection.
Either the people of South Dakota
in the union or the rest of the SEN
ators are labOring under a misappre-
hension when they think their re-
marks in the Congressional Record
carry weight with the voters. Senator
BulOw is enough of a realist to admit
that most of the work is done off
the senate floor" and from that re-
mark one is free to believe that it is
within this sphere that he has chosen
to confine his influence. But Senator
Bulow is likely to have few imitators
as long as the majority of senator's
continue to take senate debates seri-
ously.