The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-16


of making another Weirton case out
Of Duquesne.
A wire sent las. Monday to the
board demanded yes or no an
swer. A reply received four days
later stated that no further action
will be taken by the board pending
action by the Third Circuit Court /
Of Appeals on the company unions /
petition for a review Of the election .
order.
Charlton Ogburn, attorney for the
Amalgamated Association, also gives |
his support and that Of the interna-
tional officers to the stalling Of the /
Labor Board, having notified the /
Duquesne workers that. in effect, he /
and Mike Tighe, Amalgamated As
ISOLATION president, will fold hands |
and await a court decision while the |
steel workers continue TO starve and !
suffer discrimination.
With the gracious cooperation of !
the Steel Labor Board, the United
States Steel Corporation barons have |
used the recognized status of the
company union, achieved through |
Messrs. Green's and Tighe's block |
ing Of strike last spring, to check 1
mate the election.
Meanwhile, in the Duquesne mill, |
the company goes merrily on its way, |
strengthening the company unions
position. New workers are being
hired to pad the payrolls in the
highly improbable event of a gov
eminent ele ton,
Company rumors are flying to the
effect that the mill will reach a
ninety per cent production level in
two months; that the only thing /
holding back the resumption Of full |
production schedules is the Anal |
gamated.
Workers Not Fooled
Not fooled in the least by any Of
this, the workers of Duquense are
going about the business of gather
ing pay envelopes to be used in
making up a list of qualified voters
for an election. When this is COM
piled, the Labor Board will be in
vited to supervise an honest cleo
ton; if they refuse the workers in
tend to go through with the cleo
ton themselves.
The Duquanse lodge has issued
leaflet in answer to lynch-incite-
ment editorial against all reds
which appeared in the Duouesne
Times. mouthpiece of Mayor Craw-
ford, Carnegie Steel puppet. Above
the reprins CT Hearst editorial
calling for the Imprisonment and
deportation Ct all native born and
alien Reds" the Times editor, one
VIM. j. Filcer, had run the follow
ing:
Editors Note. - The following
article should be published in every
loyal newspaper in the United
States and if results are not favor
able communities should adopt the
same method that for time was in
ware i, the early history of Calf
ornia. There are plenty of vacant
trees and hemp these days can
readily be procured.
"Wlsc are these Communists"
says the union leafie.. "They are
! the same honest workers who slave
away year after year in the mills.
As long as they submit to low
wages, the speed-up. miserable
working cOnditions-they are all
right, according to the bosses.
But as soon as they organize and
pledge themselves to the strug
gle to better their conditions
then they are Reds Communists
and the company wants them run
out of town or hung from the
nearest vacant tree"
Leafet Cites Demands
The leahet then quotes the de-
mands of the workers, drawn up at
the fifty-ninth convention One
dollar an hour. the six-hour day, the
frc-dev week. no discriminst ton
against Negro workers, abolition Of
- u ! weze differentials, en-
actr ons Of the Workers Unemploy-
ment insurance Bill (HR. 2820.
The National Steel Board rendered
its -further-action' decision in
Duquesne simultaneously with an
official whitewasning of the terror
ization of Aliquippa workers by the
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corpora
! ton.
The company is absolyed of any
connection with the thuggery OF
their rowing deputies by the boards
ruling
Certain acts Of espionage oc-
Cured on the part Of certain spe-
cial police employed by the corpora
ton as guards, against certain
Amalgamsted Association organizers
and certain prospective or actual
members Of Beaver lodge. but that
/ This eepioDare ceased when called