The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-19
RooSeVelt'S Friendship

HAVING shamelessly betrayed the steel
"A strike, the A. F. of L. leaders of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers, now utilize all of their
energy in order to bolster up the Roose-
welt regime in the eyes of the steel
workers.
A member Of the Committee Of 10 and Mike
Tighe on Monday made statements to the Pittsburgh
newspapers that every steel worker should examine.
Forbeck said: 1--WE wanted to help President Roose-
welt and we didn't want strike and would do
everything we could to avoid it."
Mike Tighe, president Of the union declared
''The men have always had the greatest confidence
in Roosevelt because of his fairness. They feel
he is a friend and trust him"
How do the A. F. Of L. leaders aid President
Roosevelt and his government?
The Roosevelt government, through the MIRA.
and the steel CODE has helped the steel trusts to
increase their profits to smash down the living
standards of the steel workers, to shacke them to
the company unions The Roosevelt government
is the political executive committee Of the most
powerful trusts in this country.
Roosevelt with the aid Of the A. F. of L. lead
ers smashed the threatened automobile and steel
strike and kept the workers in the company unions
The bosses declared they "gratifed" with
these results The bosses get everything they want
from the Roosevelt government-they get increased
profit they get strikes smashed, they get the NR.A.
code with its legalzation Of company unions and
they get the armed forces to shoot down strikers
who fight for union recognition and little bit
more bread.
In the. Weirton Steel Co. strike, when workers
came to Roosevelt he promised them election"
Roosevelt,s promises turned out to be unsbashed
lies.
NOW the A. F. of L. leaders in the steel union
IN want to justify their strikebreaking policy and
they say they did it to help Roosevelt, because,
they said. "he is friend"
Yes, they helped Roosevelt. But he is not
friend of the workers he is the head Of the Wall
Street government the chief tool of the big trusts
They helped the Roosevelt programme program
of increasing the profits of the big bosses at the
expense of lowering the living standards Of the
workers
The steel workers prepared to fight against
the Roosevelt policy which they felt in less wages
more killing speed-up, and in the slave company
unions.
Now with this yeoman strikebreaking service
of Messrs Green, Tighe, Forbeck and Co., the
Roosevelt government can go on to more drastic
measures against the workers. to fascist deeds
against the workers union and their right organ
lie in unions of their choice, and their right
to strike and picket for better living conditions
The steel workers must not be taken in by this
soft soap. Roosevelt is acting for the big trusts
and every one of his deeds proves it. The A. F.
of L. leaders are trying behind his false mask to
hide their own crimes, crimes that help the steel
trust
THE COMMUNIST PARTY warned about these
treacherous strikebreakers, just it has con-
stsntly exposed the Roosevelt regime as the in
strunent of the most powerful trusts of Wall Street
the workers. It's whole policy is to save CAPT.
taGsm at the expense of the workers. The Com
munist Party declares that only by the overthrow
Of capitalism, only by the establishment of work
ers' government, of Soviet Power in this country
can the workers get their due and destroy forever
the power of the big trusts.
The steel workers should not be hoodwinked bv
the explanations of Green, Tighe Forbeck and
Co, which the bosses press so readily prints The
struggle must be sharpened against the whole rotten
capitalist system and all of its agents from Roose-
welt down to the Shiny Tighes and Forbecks
Steel workers who were betrayed in your desire
to strike for better conditions, you can now see
where the Roosevelt government stands Prepare
strike action under the leadership of yourselves
Of the Amalgamated Association rank and file
opposition, of the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial UniOn Join the Communist Party, the
only revolutionary Party of the working class
which is leading the fight to end capitalist slavery
JOIN the Party, become a better fighter for your
immediate needs become active fighter for a
workers government, for Soviet Power!