The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-02
Strike Wave
Sweeps City
OF Cleveland
NJ etal, Taxi Struggles
Show Fighting Mood
of Workers

CLEVELAND, Ohio. - The Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
conducted strike at the Chandler
and Price plant against the COM
pany's policy of discrimination and
for the enforcement Of the agree
ment made between the company
and the union some time ago. The
strike started as a result of the
firing Of two members of the union.
The reason given by the company
was that one of the workers was
too old and the other had to be laid
off because Of lack of work, although
this same worker is one of the COM
pany's oldest employees.
The plant is organized practically
100 per cent in the Union. The men
in the shop called all the members
of the Union and the other work
ers together week ago Monday and
decided by a unanimous vote to go
on strike. A picket line was organized
and proper committees were placed
in charge Of the different activities
during the strike. Through it's
proper mass picketing the strike be-
came so effective that practically all
the Office force and all the foremen
were kept out of the shop. During
the strike those few remaining out
side of the union signed up.
On Friday, May %, the company
called for representative commit
tee and settled the strike 100 per
cent in favor of the men. That is
the laid-off workers and members
of the union were reinstated in their
jobs, and an agreement reached that
from now on all grievances and pro-
posslS by either side will be taken
up with the committee authorized
by the union to deal with the COM
pany,
The members Of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union at
Chandler and Price displayed cour-
age and carried out a real militant
policy of strike strategy. These
workers have shown the difference
between the strikes led by the s.
M. w. I. U. and strikes led by the
high-salaried officials of the A. F.
of L.
Wave Of Strike Sweeps City OF
Cleveland
At the present time a number of
strikes are going on in the city Of
Cleveland: the gas station oper-
ators' strike, the taxicab strike and
now the developing mass struggles
and oncoming mass strike in the
steel industry, In the taxi strike as
well as in the gas operators strike,
a tremendous discomfort is develop
ing among the rank and file against
the A, F. of L. leadership. In fact
among the taxi strikers a split is
taking place. The overwhelming
majority of the strikers are fight
ing bitterly and have rejected the
policy of the officials of the union
of betraying the strikers.
The Joint Council of Industrial
Unions together with the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union is
initiating an intensive drive in
preparation for the coming steel
strike.
Mass recruitment into the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
among the unorganized masses in
the steel mills, building up of the
opposition within the A. F. of L.
Local Unions, mass meetings,
parades and demonstrations; joint
committees of action in preparation
for the strike in the mills and de-
partments, raising of finances for
the preparations of the steel strike
are the immediate tasks of the hour.
No time must be lost. All forces
must be united to prevent the A.
F. of l.. leaders from misleading the
steel workers as they have misled
the workers in the auto industry,
We must make the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union into the
Union of the workers. capable of
uniting all the workers, organized
and unorganized, in the steel and
metal industry.