The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
nti-CompanyUniOn
Conference June )
In Chicago District
Unity of Steel Workers
On Basis of Six
Demands, Urged
Csnsoial to the Daily Worker

CHICAGO. Ill, May 11.--AIl local
unions Of the Steel and Metal Work
ers Union in the Chicago-Calumet
area have issued a call for a united
Anti Company Unicn Conference, to
take place on Sunday June 8, at 2
P. NJ. in the Auditorium Hall, Grand
Boulevard and Michigan Ave, IN
diana HARDER, Indiana.
The call for the conference is ad-
dressed to all members Of the Anal
gsmsted Association of Iron, Stee,
and Tn Workers CA. F. Of L. and
other A. r. of L. unions, to all I'M
organized steel and metal workers,
to all members of independent
unions. and all members Of the S. NJ.
WI. U.
Six Demands
A fgNt fer six demands is the pur-
pcas Of the anti-company union
conference. for
Il. Immediate 25 per cent increase
in wages TO meet the rising cost Of
living.
2. Against all forms Of company
uricns: for the right to organize
and strike, and recognition of
elected workers committees.
8. Abolition Of ali speed-up
methods. The pace of production
on the job to be decided by the
workers affected. Restoration of
full crews on all Jobs, and Of spell
periods similar to 1929 working con-
ditions.
4. s,x-hour day, 5 day week with
out reduction in pay.
5. No discrimination against the
right Of Negro workers to hold any
job. No discrimination in hiring
Negroes. Equal pay for equal work.
6. Against lay-offs, and for relief
to the unemployed at the expense
Of the companies and government.
For Observation-Disclosures as en-
bodied in the Workers Bill-H. R.
1898, now pending in Congress.
The call for the conference
points out that under the N. r. A.,
the steel companies have reaped
huge profits. The New Deal how
ever, while promising Jobs, higher
wages and the right to organize,
instead brought the workers mass
layoffs, and speed up. The small
pay increases have been taken away
by the increased living costs. The
company union has been encour-
aged by the New Deal.
The call continues, we can de-
feat the company scsb unions, We
can improve our conditions and
wages, v-e can wipe out Of existence
the com0any controlled unions. The
workers of other industries by the
thousands are organizing and fight
ing back. We, too, can succeed. Act
Now. Organize. The answer and
solution is the unity Of all work
ers."
The call exposes the role of Tighe,
President Of the A. A. and other
A. F. of L. officials as misleaders of
the workers. The call concludes:
THE company unions have been
established by the companies to
prevent lis joining our own militant
class struggle unions. The company
unions stifle action and stand in the
way of us getting better wages and
conditions. The company unions
must be destroyed We call upon
workers in the company unions and
all unorganized to join the only IN
dustrial union in the steel industry
that is controlled by steel workers.
The Steel & Metal Workers Indus
trial Union organizes ALL workers
in the shop, mill and industry into
ONE UNION, irrespective of craft,
color or nationality. The S. & M.
W. I. U. organizes one local for
every shop, with rank and file con-
troll Of the union. The S. & M. w.
I. U. fights against racketeers and
gangsters in the ranks of unions.
The S. g. M. w. I. U. is based on a
program Of struggle against the
employers. 1t stands on the prin-
ciple of United Front with all
workers-organize and morgan
lied, irrespective Of their union aft
liation.
We urge all workers, in every mill,
in every shop, in every department
to get together NOW. Call together
Immediately the best workers in
your department or shop, the ones
whom you can trust. and elect dele
gates to the June 3rd Anti-Company
Union Conference. Set m organi-
cation committees in your ahop and
department and communicate with
the Steel & Metal Workers Indus
trial Union nearest to your COM
munity. Do not be inundated by
the scare that the company and its
stool pigeons will raise. Delegates
should be elected from all lodges
and locals in the Amalgamated
Association and other A. F. of L.
unions; in the independent unions
and the Steel g. Metal Workers IN
dust-ial Union. Each organization
is entitled to one delegate for every
25 members or major fraction there
Of. All shop and department group
representative will be seated at the
conference regardless Of the num-
Der they represent"
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