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the fighting chairman Of the Commit
tee. Green laid many sins at the
door of the committee, charged it with
bludgeoning the Amalgamated ASso-
citation of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers
into "deserting" the A. F. of L. and
warned that the insurgents must an
swer for actions which will benefit
''only the enemies of organized labor. ,
Lewis hit back without delay and
with no punches pulled, denying the
federation ever intended any real at
tempt to organize the steel industry
inviting it to join the C. I. o. in the
drive if it would and voicing the
counter warning that the shame" of
giving comfort to the Iron and Steel
Institute will lie on the heads of Mr..
Green and his irreconcilable asso-
ciates'
Green's Statement.
Green's statement follows, in part:
''It is to be sincerely regretted that
the Committee for Industrial Organi-
cation thwarted the purpose of the
American Federation of Labor to in
augurate an organizing campaign in
the steel industry, behind which the
American Federation of Labor would
have modified the united support and
pooled resources of organized labor.
A very serious If not a fatal mistake
was made when it flouted the de-
cision of the last convention Of the
Of ot,4 ~ iol,
was held at Atlantic City last october,
and prevented the Executive Council
from carrying out the conventions
instructions.
To lnaugurate, manage, promote
and conduct an organizing campaign
among the iron and steel workers at
the earliest possible date.
Denounced A. F. of L.
Instead of making possible the
concentration of all the material,
moral and economic forces of the
organized workers and all their
friends behind an irresistible or
ganizing campaign in the steel indus
try, its recognized spokesman de-
nounced the American Federation of
Labor, charged it with pursuing a
dog in the manger' policy, and por-
trayed 1t as barrier blocking the
efforts of the steel workers to become
organized. Finally, through the sub
mission of abusive communications
and kilograms to the officers and
delegates in attendance at the con-
vention of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation Of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
which was held at Canonsburg, Pa,
on April %, the chairman of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion, charging the leaders of the
American Federation of Labor with
incompetency and with being guilty
OF staying the progress of the labor
movement, Influenced those officers
to make an unconditional surrender.
They deserted the American Fedora
tion of Labor, rejected its offer and
Its plan to organize steel workers,
Joined the new organization (the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tom and signed an agreement which
subjects them and the organization
they represent to the complete DOM
1nat1on and control of the chairman
OF the Committee for Industrial Or
ganiZation.
Find Real Enemies.
''Now those identified with the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion find that their real enemy Is
not the American Federation of Labor
and its Executive Council which they
so vehemently denounced, but instead
their real enemies are the steel
corporations and the powerful flnan-
cial interests associated with them.
They are now finding out what the
Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor always knew
that any organizing campaign
launched in the steel industry should,
in order to be successful, be carefully
organized, skillfully planned and be-
hind 1t placed every ounce Of strength