Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
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LINE ALAN y MAX
Acrobat Ryan
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Steel SellOut

and seamen's strike lasts, the
more sOmersaults and backflips
Ryan performs in an effort to
drive the men back to work. And
each time the famous acrobat
tries another trick, part of his
circus costume falls off, revealing
the rottenness underneath.
The signing of the fink hall az
reement with the shipOwners,
after the rank and file themselves
had turned it down, showed how
desperate Mr.. Ryan was in the
face of the determined strikers.
After he had put his million
dollar signature millions for the
shipowners, a r&ke-Off for j. p.
Ryan to the agreement,
thunderOus NO burst out the
entire length of the coast.
WhereupOn, with the cOmpOs-
ure that comes from a life of
betrayals. Mr.. Ryan beamed,
patted his belly and announced
Il am with the strikers 100 per
cent"
But his lieutenants on the
Coast, Lewis, Bjorklund, Pedro
Pete, etc, must have passed
word up to Ryan that from now
on he was going to have one
tough job convincing the strikers
that J. p. Ryan was the best
friend a lOngshOreman ever had.
For, a few hours later, Ryan
suddenly turned another back
flip. When he landed on his
feet this time, the treacherOus
smile was gone. Ryan barred his
teeth and snarled that the stri-
Ike was being led by Communists
and agtiatOrs and he would form
new union of men who wanted
to go back into the good old fink
halls.
This latest move of Ryan's will
help make several more Comm
unists.
And it must make clear to the
strikers that Ryan must not be
allowed to negotiate any longer
for the lOngshOremen, that all
negotiations must be in the |
hands of a COast-WiSe rank and |
file committee representa- every |
local and every group of water
front strikers.
$50 *%#%
While Ryan has been working |
twenty-fOur hours a day on the |
coast for the shipOwmGrS, back |
East, Mike Tighe, President of |
the Amalgamated Association OF
Iron, Steel and Tin workers, and |
William Green have received the
thanks of the steel magnates for
calling off the steel strike at
least temporarily. Knowing that
battle between the steel mag
mates and the exploited steel
workers might develop into a
nation wide strike, Roosevelt con-
centrated his best NRA sell-Out
"cOnciliatOrs" to get the strike
called off.
A proposal was made to put
everything into the hands of a
special committee to be appoint
ed by Roosevelt. At the crucial
moment, William Green appear
ed before the 200 delegates at the
Amalgamated convention.
81 urge and insist that this pro
pOsal be accepted, he said.
1t was. But when the full ex-
tent of the treachery of Green
and Tighe becomes clear to the
steel workers, the battle will be
on.
#*** y $3.50
The question rises what can
be done to remove the Ryan's,
Tighes, Greens from the leader
ship of the A F of L? Very little
If anything can be done to GUST
them from office. For they hold
elections when and il they please,
and count the ballots themselves.
John Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers has never
been elected to office in his lifeD
But it is possible to destroy the
confidence of the rank and file
in these men. 1t is necessary to
build up a rank and file move
ment which will take indepen-
dent action, refuse 10 pay the
salaries of these international
presidents and finally move out |
from under the burOcrats, leav- ,
ing them sitting at their desks. ,
A + L members must take a |
great interest In the coming state !
and national conventions of the
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