The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09
Organize the Steel Strikes

NEVER in all the history of the class
~ struggle in the United States has there
been such a concentration of forces, such a
series OF maneuvers to prevent a strike
as have now been brought into play by the
government and the employers to prevent
the steel strike which the workers have
decided on.
The armed forces of the government and the
steel companies are openly preparing The U. S.
Steel and other companies are building barbed wire
entanslements, arranging sleeping quarters inside
the plants, cook tents, new gates etc. In the steel
towns police are being given daily drills in tear gas
throwing, clubbing and the art OF attacking strikers
The National Guard troops being drilled
The forces Of the federal as we'll as the local gov
ernments are feverishly active. johnson, N R. A.
head confers with the Iron and Steel Institute
which is the N. r. a. code authority beading steel
manufacturers. Madame Perkins confers with the
labor faker OF N r. A. McGrady. Roosevelt sets
the stage for his personal appearance. The steel
company heads meet day and night connecting state
ments against union recognition. Senator Wagner
confefs with the A. F. of L. officials All of these
federal government officials admittedly steer toward
one gosl-s steel labor board similar to the Auto
labor board to prevent the strike.
is spending thousands OF dollars on propaganda
against the coming strike Huge advertisements IN
the papers contain slogans Strikes do not pay"
Workers are terrorized inside and outside the mill
INSIDE the mills the company unions have taken
strike votes" The company agents ell the
workers beforehand that there is not goine to be
any strike, and that if they favor strike they will
be blacklisted. One hundred and sixteen we're
fred in Weirton alone after such strike vote"
The McKeeSport Chamber of Commerce backed
by the MIRA. local officials, sends delegation of
steel workers" to Washington against the strike
All these forces join in singing the "red scare"
refrain telling the workers that Roosevelt is their
friend and that the Communists and outside agi-
tators" are spreading the sinister propaganda of
unified strike action for the steel workers demands
The steel trust agents within the labor move
ment work overtime to split up the workers sabo-
tage strike preparations and prevent the strike
Mike Tighe, the notorious strikebreaking president
OF the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and
Tin Workers after months of agitation against the
strike now tries to take over the strike leadership
in order to behead it,
The Committee Of Ten betrays the trust Of
the A. A. convention which elected IT, praises
Roosevelt and the N.RA. calls for arbitration led
by Roosevelt himself It hangs around Washing
ton, leaving the workers to make their own strike
pAcpdrdtOAS Inc Commute of Ten rejects the
unity proposal Of the Steel and Metal Workers
industrial Union and instead praises the strike
breaker Tighe.
The steal workers in the face of these united
forces OF the steel trust, must unite at once in
their strike preparations. They should establish
in every mill, joint strike committees inside the
mill to conduct the strikes. They must 60 over
the heads OF the trescherous Tghes of the betray-
ing Committee of Ten and establish fighting unity
an aA Loefe
of which they are to have an effective struggle
Especially must the workers inside the Anal
gamated Association organize their rank and file
opposticns TO the Tighc machine and to the
maneuvers Of the Committee of Ten.
The strike must BE- organized. The commit
tees of the rank and file inside the A. F. Of L.
steel unicn and inside every mill must b. set up
At once by the rank and file steel workers If
the struggle is to be effective