The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01
COMPANY UNI 0Ns REVOLT

COMPANY UNI QNS REVOLT
Similarly the rubbe industry, the ship
building industry, the radio industry, and
others, have all had seir quota of strikes
and in every instance bringing the CLIO.
unions into action. While in the steel in
dustry Developments in the campaign for
organization have b an less spectacular
they have been no les significant. There
the most important e1 ants have originated
in the most unexpec led quarters. The
greatest conquests of the CLIO. have been
made in the very heart of company union
ism. The company unions, so carefully
fostered by the steel corporations, and
fostered with the intention to be a bull
wark against genuine unions, have now
made their own declaration of indepen-
dence" from the employee organization
plan Representatives of these company
unions from no less than forty-two plants
between Cleveland and the Atlantic Coast,
who recently met in conference, decided to
transform their employe council into c.
10. Representative Council. In other
words, they took the first step toward
Transforming whole network of company
unions into becoming an integral part of
the steel workers industrial union. Theo-
retically such possibility could never be
excluded. Militants have emphasized be-
fore this the favorable opportunities
available, at the time Of certain conjunc-
lures, for work inside the company un-
ions. But this is the first time that such
work has brought concrete results, and
certainly the first time that it has brought
results on such grandoise scale This a.
lone Is an eloquent testimony to a growing
ferment in the steel industry as well as to
the powerful sweep of union organization.
further national convention was planned
by the company union representatives who
took this first significant STEP. No doubt,
the time for this Will coincide with the
convention Of the steel workers union
which has been planned to take place this
coming Spring.
The CLIO. has now announced it's plans
for concerted drive to complete orqani-
zation in the steel and auto industries and
to compel these powN~A~A operations to
deal with the unions lis is carried
out-and, in the light " ecent events.
there need not be the slightest doubt of
the fact that the workers are ready to re-
spond all the scatter SCI. es. and all
militant action, will tend to converge into
one gigantic movement, the IMPACT of
which is bound to have far flung reverber
atoms. Several important mass production
industries are closely connected with the
two that are to be the major point of con-
centration. The unions in these industries
are all affiliated to the CLIO. and all face
the problem of becoming stabilized as the
recognized representatives of the workers
1t is therefore natural to expect that thew
will all be drawn into this general orbit Of
struggle. And while the United Mine
Workers, the real backbone of the clio.
is fully established throughout the mine
struggle at the expiration of it's nresAnt -
grreement on April l. So, on the whole ali
OF these present developments point verv
definitely toward new strike wave far
greater IN scope than anyone hereto wit
messed and far greater in its significance
to the working class. ~>'''00
EFFECT OF STRUGGLES
+;4 IL IS OF course inconceivable that such