The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07
Treachery to IA Shown
in Recent Record
of His Actions
BY John Steuhen

The steel workers are rapidly pre-
pairing for struggle A mass strike
in the steel industry is on the order
Of the day
In the past six months the steel
workers have learned many lessons.
Especially the organized steel work
ers now realize how futile it was to
depend on President Roosevelt, on
Section TIA, on the Steel Labor
Board, as we'll as their own top
leaders Of the type of Mike Tighe
and his associates.
The steel workers must enter this
fight with clear vision and perspec-
tive, to know what they want and
how to accomplish it. In the very
preparations for the struggle the
steel workers must also learn who
are their real friends and who are
their enemies. The steel workers
must definitely understand that
Mike Tighe, Shorty" Leonard, and
the whole crew of the international
officers of the A. A. are agents of
the Steel Trust and are serving
their interests; we will prove it in
this article, without going into their
past record, which is a long list of
treachery and betrayal.
Startling Admission
The first issue of the Progressive
Steel Worker published by the Pub
lie Relations Committee Of the Sixth
District of the A. A, in the story on
the Pittsburgh Conference of De-
cember 30 exposes Tighe as traitor
to his union:
The conference was electricified
by the startling charges brought
forward by Weirton delegate that
q prominent member of the A A.,
testifying before the Federal Court
in Wilmington, Del produced finan-
cial statements and other sacred
lodge documents and gave testimony
which was highly damaging to the
case of the Weirton lodges.
Even more startling were the adj
missions by Brother John Sander
of Cannonsburg that these charges
were true; that it was he who had
given this damaging testimony;
that he had taken down these
documents and introduced them
in spite of the fact that the sub
pOena did not call for them; and
that he had acted entirely upon
the instructions of President Tighe
himself, who told him to go to
Wilmington and answer all ques-
tiOns that might be asked. Brother
Sander also stated that he had
been made the goat in the mat
ter by someone but he refused to
state who the someone was, leav-
ing 1t to the delegates to use their
own judgments"
Thus Mike Tighe, the President
of the union, is performing the job
of the paid stool pigeons, instruct
ing some members to turn over the
names of union members and other
union records to the steel companies,
which will result in discrimination
and mass firing of union members.
Tighe and the Truce
However, Tighe is not satisfied
with betraying only a certain Sec
ton Of the steel workers. His job
is to betray all steel workers and
to still further chain and enslave
them to the Steel Trust. This
brings us to the role played by Tighe
in the recent truce" negotiations
held in Washington.
The reader will recall that Presi-
dent Roosevelt called conference
and proposed a six-month truce"
on the following conditions: a. no
elections in the mills; b. no strike;
G. proportional representation. Such
a truce" if accepted would mean
a complete surrender to the steel
czars, open recognition of the COM
pany unions, a gradual merger OF
the A. A. with the company unions,
which in practice would mean
rapid disintegration of the Anal
gamated Association.
To many it may be shocking, but
Mike Tighe did accept the truce"
but was saved by more clever mis-
leader, william Green, who stepped