The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-06
FARLEY BACKS
FIGHT ON WAR
AND FASCISM
Final Session of Conference Prepares COnstitu-
tiOn-Delegates Report on Successful Struggles,
AnaIyze Lessons of Failures

elimination and Jim-CroWiSm."
A portion of Egan's report was
devoted to betrayals perpetrated by
the A A. and William Green, and
the role played by Roosevelt's So
called labor boards in putting over
sell-outs with the aid Of the rep
resentative- election device, quoting
Weirton as a classical example"
The fight against company union
and company representatives, he
said, must in the future be based
on the 11-point program set forth
by the last S. M. w. I. U. delegation
to the National Labor Board in
June.
Concentration Work
The Importance of carrying on
real concentration work in all key
mills was especially stressed.
The report analysed in detail the
tendency in many strikes toward an
immediate spread, strikes such as
Clarion and Weirton, where the
walkout of the steel workers found
the miners ready and eager to
walk out in sympathy with their
brothers despite the orders of A. F.
of L. misleaders forbidding any
sympathetic action.
Red Scare" Answered
The question of the Red scare
was brought out into the open dur
ing the Egan report. Answering
oft-repeated charges in the capital
list press that the S. M w. I. U.
is "Communist-a affiliated" organi-
cation, as the Pittsburgh Post Gaz-
cite had remarked only the day
before, Egan declared fatty that
there is mo utilization of the union
with the Communist Party, that
workers of any political belief can
join and become leaders, and that
"the fact that Communists are
often elected to leading posts only
proves that they are good fighters
and are so recognized by the work
ing class"
Concluding, he appealed to the
convention to take up seriously the
plan for securing the utilization of
every independent union with the
steel union and the Welding of a
solid united front with the rank
and file of all unions, so that on
this basis the workers in steel and
allied trades can be enabled to win
better conditions and higher wages
and go forward towards one class
struggle union in the industry.
Egan was followed by James
Matles, who gave report on the
metal and machine building divi-
sion of the S. M. w. I. U. and its
activities and growth during the
last two years.
Matles told of the movement of
eastern shipyard workers away
from the A. F. of L. toward the
S. M. w. I. u, attracted by the
program Of rank and file con-
trolled action which they had
sought under William Green's
leadership.
Warns of MESA. Leaders
Matles sounded the warning
against the leadership in certain
independent unions such as the
Mechanics Educational Society of
America, who under the guise of an
ostensibly independent" policy &C
tually advocated a program based
on the same class collaboration
principles which characterize all
A. F. of L. leadership, citing the
cases of Matthew Smith and Grit
fin at the head of the MESA.
He mentioned the instance of the
Crucible Steel Co. vote in Harrison,
N. j., as proof conclusive that q
vote does not defeat the company
union" where despite a vote of
750 to 335 against the company's
A.THA. Works Council in the first
election, the company secured en-
dorsement of the labor board for a
second election, in which the check
numbers of the employees were to
appear on the ballot.
On the basis of favorable eX-
perience in the past in involving
Independent unions, Matles called
for the establishment of intimate
contact with all independent groups
as the starting point for concerted
action in the manufacturing indus
tries, against company unions, the
speed-up, and for wage increases.
Convention Demands Safe Release
of Angelo Herndon
A resolution was passed at this
session ordering the dispatch of a
telegram to Governor Talmadge
demanding the immediate and safe
release of Angelo Herndon, whose
bail of SIS 900 was raised through