The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Tighe Seeks to Behead
Strike Movement, Cut
Out Economic Demands
SMWIU Calls for United
Front Conferences
of Locals

CHICAGO, Ill, May 24-Del-
egstes to the steel workers
united front Company Union
conference of June 5, which will
take up united strike preparations,
we're elected by the Mutual Asso-
citation of Steel and Iron Workers,
an independent union of 400 work
ers in the Inland Steel plant in
Chicago Heights. The program of
the conference was endorsed and
five delegates elected.
The conference called by the
Calumet District Board of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union and several locals of the
union is intended to unite the
forces of the steel workers of the
Calumet Region into a solid front
against company unions and for
Is per cent raise in wages.
The conference will be held in
Auditorium Hall, Grand Boulevard
and Michigan Ave. in Indiana Har-
Dor, opening at 2 p. m.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May "a
June is is the deadline set by the
steel workers for strike for union
recognition and for their six other
demands. The steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union and the
lodges of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation CA. F. of L. presented their
demands on May 81, to all major
companies, and these demands have
been rejected by the companies
In response to the call for united
strike action issued by the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial I'm
lon, lodges of the A. A. and locals
Of the S. M. w. I. U. are now
meeting in a number of districts
and taking up the question of joint
strike action and joint committees.
Mike Tighe, pres. of the Anal
gamated Association has definitely
stepped into the situation in an
attempt to behead the strike move
ment of the steel workers. In the
recent national convention of the
A. A., Tighe opposed the resolution
Df the rank and file opposition for
offensive action" for their seven
demands. Tighe and his machine
opposed any strike action or strike
preparations. He was voted down
by the rank and file who passed a
motion to present the demands on
May 81. Tighe then told the del
egates, Il wash my hands of the
whole business"
But today, Tighe, seeing he can
not prevent strike struggles of the
steel workers, made a bid to head
the movement in order to sell it
out. He said, There is no ques-
tion of backing down. The work
men themselves decided it Ito
strike) at their convention here a
few weeks ago. We have no choice
but to carry out their orders"
Tighe, however, is trying to con-
fine the demands to the sole de-
mand for recognition. He Is trying
TO overrule the decisions of the
national convention by dropping all
the economic demands for higher
wages, against the speed-up, for
better conditions, etc.
Tighe is also trying to Law the
basis for preventing strikes by re-
ferring everything to the Labor
Board of the N. r. A. or to Roose-
welt. His policy is to betray the
steel strike preparations Just as
Green and Collins betrayed the
auto workers who wanted to go out
on general strike, into the hands
OF the Auto Labor Board and
Roosevelt. The auto workers did
not win their demands, and were
defeated through this treachery.
Tighe is trying to sell It the steel
workers in the same manner.
All steel workers should unite,
and prepare a united strike for their
seven demands.