The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1934, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, W YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1934 Company Union Menaces\Committee of Ten of AFL Steel Union Hlinois Steel Workers With Troops, Blacklist Bosses Call Meeting of All Departments With Co, ‘Union’ Threats iy Worker Midwest Bureau) ‘CAGO, June 6.—“The hell it houted by ‘ou to know 1 will have a little gate, and ates mise that new if the present equate to protect d that the ill have a ‘ound the 1 of police t the scabs men, but troops that ave to A worker asked ome of their far stated that the eputies would see iff end his to them Threatens Workers ng claimed that there would the compa: A worker shouted: Filling ourselves in try to rectify all these difficulti Meetings tly like this id in ery department one in cis Steel Plant Monday and y in a frantic effort of the steel bosses to prevent the strike. Twenty-eight open hearth fur- Races are running full blast at Tli- | nois today, more titan operated at the peak of production during the war, as the company frantically tries to get its orders out of the | the miners both employed and un-|Cuvered for more time for discus- way. No scrap is being purchased. | employed will unite and struggle|Sicn and the honest fighters pres- Cops Active—Against Workers A Canal Street employment agency is sending men to the steel mills in South Chicago in large numbers, charging them a dollar apiece, Police in plain clothes and private cars are cruising the steel mill region in an effort to prevent all leafiet distribution and street meetings. In spite of all these activities, Preparations for the pro- ceed at full speed. The local united front conference to prepare for the in South Chicego will be held June 10, at 9133 Baltimore. Offer investors gold stability; safe ready marketa! Send for cire SUVIET AMERICAN SECURITIES CORP. HAnover2-5332 ROLYSIS HAIR ON FACE TLY REMOVED sonal Service Travel Full Mikiny and Camping Outfits Breeches, Sher Slacks, Sweat Sneakers, Work ie Leathe> Clothes, ete. INTS, COTS, BLANKETS E—Sse22 & Woel Windbreakers Hudson Army & Navy 105 THIRD AVE. Corner 13th Street Mention Deily Worker for Special Discount To Hire AIRY, LARGE MEETING ROOMS and HALL Suitzble for Meetings, Lectures ond Dances in the Czechoslovak Workers House, fie. 347 BE. 72nd St. New York Telephone: RHinelander -5997 WELL FED TRAITOR Mike Tizhe, President of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Stesl and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) Betrayer of Many Strikes. Metal Miners of Michigan Demand $> Minimum Pay Call for 5 Day Week, 6 Hour Day; Oppose Bosses’ Code By JOHN MACKEY IRONWCOD, Mich.—Fellow Min- ers: Can we look forward to any i ment in cur working con- . for shorter work-day and , for an increase in wages, for | right to organize, for Unemploy- | ment Insurance, against speed-up, against check-off, etc. to be em- bodied in an iron code that an) official like R. C. Allen of the Ore| Association is working out for the | Iron Ore Miners, who perhaps has not even seen the inside of a mine? The Iron Ore Miners of Michigan, | Wisconsin and Minnesota will most likely answer to the company Ore Code like their fellow miners of Birmingham, Ala, and Butte, Mont., did: With a strike for their own workers code in which will be included the demands of the min- ers, which the miners are discussing about at the present time. These demands include: 1. Six hour day— Five day week; 2. Five dollars per | day minimum wage for miners, the | other laborers to receive increased | Wage in proportion. Now I wish to deal a little more | in detail with the two above de- mands. The 6-hour day—five day | week can be won by the miners, if| | side by side till all of their de-| | mands are won. With the up-to-| date machinery in and around the| | mines, the miners will produce | | enough profits, with less speed-up, | with the six hour day — five day) week, with the loss of but very little of the present huge profits of the company, and at the same time add a few of the unemployed to jobs. The 5-day week would also guarantee the miners a minimum | of 25 days work per month, and do away with some of the discrimi nation that the companies are using against the disliked workers in many of the mines, in connec- tion of the extra work day system. Regarding the demand for $5.00 per day minimum wage. Now we all agree with an idea of an in- crease to the present wages, to meet. the ever rising prices, that the N. R. A. has brought about, after the many years of part time work, and unemployment. to many. Join the National Miners Union. Fight for the Unity of all the Min- ers. For one Union for all the Miners of the U. S. A. | with this arch trai! |united front strike struggle; who Sabotages Convention Strike Decisions Betrays Rank and File; | the Weirton situation and labels x Soy bon pu |the promise of election as “just so Makes No Strike much bunk,” the statement, attri- > : i | buted to Forbeck and Irwin, is not Preparations to strengthen strike preparation but to avert a strike, By JACK JOHNSTONE ONDITIONS | proved under Roosevelt, | | Strike leadership here is only one way to avert this strike. That is for the president to invite the directors of the American Iron and Steel Insti- have im- € s Norman Thomas, speak-| tute (the industrial code authority) | : ace |to the White Hous confer- | ing for the Socialist Party a ike Ponte: fon 6. conte: few days ago in Detroit, at a time when Roosevelt is mobilizing the to sho A of the kers, National Indu Recovery for the capitalist class at} the point of the ba In Alabama, New 0} s, Toledo, Min Buffalo, San Francisco, scores ¢ lead, hundreds wounded, clubbed and the N.R.A.| speaks with bullets. | Demos fade: in face | of a fighting wo: As the class line draws tighter, the treach- erous role of the Thomas, Green, Lew! comes more clear a: more impor- tant for the capitalist class. INDER pressure of the rank and The S.MW.1.U. has distributed 100,000 calls for united front strike Reject Unity Demanded preparations; 50,000 stickers and) By Steel Workers; the workers are asking for more; é : mass meetings are being held | Follows Tighe everywhere. The workers are talk- ing openly about strike. Yet A.A, who calls the strike for Jv 16th has not issued any literat are’ holding meetings such as not against the terr the right of the work- steel, the S.M.W.1.U. : There is no doubt that the con- une there or f ers to belong to the union which on long and tedious negotiations, to w |the steel industry; to tire out and to demoralize the steel workers. steel called by the A.A. for June cluding the committee of S.M.W.ILU. and all working ciass forces in favor of the strike. is the main task of every class con- scious worker in the steel industry. : NRA Cotton Code file, the Amalgamated Associa- tion Convention went on record for a strike, to enforce rec ion of the union, the 6 hour-5 week, | a minimum of $1.00 per hour, aboli- tion of the differential betwen Nerth and Sofith, and for equal rights for the Negroes to the higher paid positions. . Ghio National Guardsmen in T the Autolite picketline. The Ohio prepared to attack workers in the PREPARE TO BATTLE STEEL WORKERS ‘oledo, who shot down strikers on ional Guard troons are now being pproaching steel strikes, ¢ Reduces Wages of The rank and file went further. | So distrustful were they of Tighe, Leonard and company that they elected a special committee of ten, | to prepare the strike and to lead it. | The old machine was left out of| It is no wonder that Roosevelt the committee. Forbeck of McKees- | immediately signed a new steel port and Allan of Indiarjpolis were |code approved by the steel ope! made chairman and secretary. This, | ®tors. Roosevelt, the committee of the rank and file did on historic |ten, Tighe and the steel operator May Day, the day of international | think alike; their main objective struggle. | ‘ This committee of ten never be- | ing “in order to obtain comp’ tain compliance with section 7a of the Recovery Act and article 4, sec- tion 1 of the Steel Code.” ji |depend on getting recognition. own convention. No sooner had the | call convention adjourned than ee | began to betray the rank and file | t who placed so much trust in them, | Scys Tigh While pretending to be in favor of | laration.” | a united front with the Steel and | = i . | Metal Workers Indus Union, | is wi rik meeting with the executive board ee oe nS ad rag ages of the SM.W.1U, ostensibly to Work | the day Tb ie bromieg whe ore Sues eee en oe Strike action, | mittes of any Gosmane than tah Sy Were negouiating with Tighe. | cen stop’ this development. ‘Th They very quickly made their peace are an obstacle in the ath of work ing class unity. Like ail pretended | progressives, they choose the most | |critical time to throw confusion into the ranks of the work hey | choose the most critical period to carry thru the act of betrayal, just | as in mining, in Weirton, in Toledo, in Minneapolis, so now in steel. The | |A. F. of L. and Socialist. bbureau- racy expose themselves as the main | jenemy within the ranks of the| working class. The steel workers, vill prevent the st At the meeting with the National Board of the SM.W.U. on May 13th, there were about thirty other members of the A.A. besides the! committee of ten from all over the | country. Many of them real honest | fighters who know Tighe for what he is; who are in favor of a real were in favor of a joint strike state- ment between this committee of ten and the SM.W.LU, ence with the A.A. in order to ob- they have chosen, the SM.W.L.U. f| but: under the protecticn of pol! and deputies, attacking the 8.M.W. |L.U. and W. Z. Foster, the leader | of | to avert a strike. Such a joint meet- | 5 , “but it is a hopeful dec- | O'8anized in spite of the terror. veloped in spite of the treachery | my of the of the Party w hey | Organizing Southern Labor egroes Find Pay Cut In Half Under Roosevelt the great steel strike while laud- of Ambridg hat the A.A.| s affiliated and through which the; In of police and e mesting had result being tment of the | and | nethen the sentiment for the| -W.LU., which is again being | By a Worker Correspondent NEW ORLEANS, La., June 6.— It is now ten months since the Cot- | ton Textile Code was imposed upon the cotton textile workers. It has brought a “wonderful” change into the lives of the cotton mill hands here in New Orleans. Once the, mill hands were among the bet- ter paid workers of the city, but now they are the lowest paid and among those in the worst circum- stances. At the Lanes Mill the people are now ing only six hours a day and it are all that the mill will run during the week. Last year when the mill was run- ning 40 hours per week, speeder hands spinners, doffers and other hands that were classed as experi- enced operatives were getting $12 per weck which was claimed to be the “minimum” weekly wage. Loom fixers and other mechanics received under the “code” the sum of $14.60 |and now they receive only from $8 ee a ie TE strike in steel wiil take place. | A militant leadership can be de- | he A.A. official and their hench- , the committee of ten. This, | ands that the Com-| be in the forefront | The strengthening | m st I, .U., and | ting left | will fight for the w ganizing of a fight ing in the A. A. that the united front and elect their | jto $10 per week. Wages Cut in Half While the Cotton Textile Code was new and the Blue Vulture was own mass rank and file strike com- mittee that will take over the strike leadership. A strike in any one of the im-| especially those fighting in the A.A. | portant in Pittsburgh, Ohio,| Peing hatched, the Negro sweepers, But the committee of ten man- must inanedintaly sod ti is es Virgi he will sweep | Cleaners and others who were sup- |treacherous act; join in unity with |over large sections of st2cl and very| Posed to be doing labor that did | the S.M.W.LU.; develop a real fight- | quickly become general in charac-| 2Ot require any knowledge whatever ent were not able to penetrate this |, Rershin. 4 camouflage. The very ae day, they | 08 leadership and carry thru me made their peace with Tighe and. ae struggle to a successful con- | Q lusion. | thru him launched an attack against | per the united front, viciously attacking | |The writer has had a great deal the SMW.1U. Tighe announced jot experience with so-called progres- that they would have nothing at/Sive leaders but never in that ex- | jall to do with this “Communist or- | Perience has there been such a quick | | ganization.” jretreat back to the reactionary |" They went with Tighe to Cleve- | camp as in the case of this commit- jland to break up the developing | te of ten. There is no doubt that | |united front that was taking place Tighe always hed a firm grip and between the local A.A. lodges and r this committee of ten. | |the locals of the SM.W.U. | 18, any honest fighting | |_ Now with Tighe, they have united | Workers in the committee of ton, | | with Senator Wagner. chairman of | they have not yet spoken and the! |the National Labor Board, who is|™antle of treachcry will cover them | responsible for the armed terror in |S they deserve, unless they speak | | Toledo, Minneapolis and other | 9Ut and expose the betrayal that | | places. \is being prepared by Tighe and the! |. The first official statement issued | committee of ten and lead a strug- | by Forbeck and Irwin of the com-/8l¢ inside the A.A. for united front | mittee, appeared in the Pittsburgh | Preparation for strike struggles with | | Post Gazette of May 31st and while | the S.M.W.I.U. | |Tighe repudiates the statement as| The conditions of the steel work- being “unauthorized” there is no|ers grow worse, the mood for strug- difference in policy between Tighe | gle is incre&sing, but only the Com- | |and the statement of the commit-|munist Party and the SM. LU. | tee of ten as quoted in the Pitts-jand the class conscious fo: in |burgh Press. While the statement|the A.A. are preparing the steel of the committee of ten criticizes! y rs for struggle. | By CARL REEVE | ALL of the forces at the facommand of the steel companies — the Roosevelt zovernment, the A. F. of L. officials, local governments, the capitalist press —- armed guards, etc. — are working feveri-hiv to avert the sie2l and thus to escape granting the demands of the steel workers. At the national convention of the Amalgamated Associetion of Iron. | Steel and Tin Workers (A. F. of L.) |the steel werkers voted to present | demands for $1 an hour minimum wage for common labor, for the six-hour day and five-day week. |for the abolition of the differential wage betwee \north and south. against the speed-up, for equal rights for Negroes, as well as the demand for union recognition. They voted to take offensive action if these demands are not met. jelected a Committee of Ten em- powersd to call a strike for these demands. Eccnomic Demands Played Down These are the grievances of the steel workers. They are in favor of strike because their wages are | Kept at low levels while the Roose- | volt policies raise prices of neco: strike | sities. They burdened with a Ti Uncmnto; | he industry. The tion in order to in- ing arid helding of | their economic demands. But Committee of Ten s (to c2y nothing of the Tighe-Leon: ard BUT A. F. OF L. STE They | Strike Demands Are Against Conditio * | must Speedily be overcome or else| of the work that they were doing received the magnificent sum of six cents per hour, although in just a few cases some were paid as much as $3.25 for 40 hours of hard labor, can anyone imagine these people buying homes or other such lux+ uries out of the salaries such as paid them, and now that amount has been reduced almost haif. With the redurtien -¢ 4 save-driving {act’es of the owners have not chenged, (acy str. ¢ tinue to make ¢very effort ta get every last ounce of energy out of the hedies ef their hands, young boys and girls, old grandmothers and o'd men that can barely get ter, Our own organizational weakness it becomes a contributing factor to the demoralizing campaign now he- ing carried on by the A.A. official mechine and especially by the be- trayal of the committee of ten. We know full well, what the work- | ers are only beginning to learn, | namely, that strikes called by the! A. F. of L. are forced uzon them by the revolt of their rank and file| and that thoy take leadership in| these strikes in order to defeat them. | We have to more energetically | prepare class conscious forces to| lead strikes, and to develop rank! about. and file strike leadership in those| It doesn’t matter if a harid does strikes | called by the A. F, of L.,| get their work in hand so that they that will-be able to expose treachery | are able to straighten their bodies, and lead the strike to victory. One| or take a long breath. Such is not of the important factors in strike | allowed. preparation is to meet the red is-| Some of the people that are em- sue; the attacks against our Party ployed by this “great humanitarian” can only be answered by bringing | live on the other side of the river forward our Party, its role and pro-| and have to start to the mill some gram and so build strong Pa: timo as much as two hours be- fractions in the reformist fore work time to be able to get The best guarantee for stri to work on time, th the| gle is to build the class union in! | ference between Tighe and the com- | mittee of ten and Senator Wagner | | is to postpone strike action, to carry | | | | | | i understood that four days |™ands upon the companies. | | | | | ated downwards on the period of 10,000 Gold California wmont Men Ready to Strike, Held Back by Labor Board Nevada City, California. May 26th, 1934. By a Worker Correspondent NEVADA CITY, Calif. — Out ot sive the steel corporations more | the 10,000 gold miners of California | time to pile up surplus, to get past | the first steps have been taken to- | the regular busy steel season and to| wards organization and the im- enter the third quarter of the year | provement of ch is also the slackest period in| conditions. wages and working Since the esteblishment last summer of the $35 an ounce gold The reaction of the workers to| Price, above the old $20.67 price, | preparation on the part these maneuvers can be utilized to| the gold miners have eageriy waited | tant 25 workers who cement further the growing unity | on their share of increasing “pros- of the steel workers, The strike in| perity.” The Grass Valley—Nevada City 146th can only be carried thru suc- | district being practically the heart cessfully by the rank and file over| of the industry, adjustments were the heads of the A.A. officic!s, in- | looked for firs at this point. Newmont Company |®gainst the decisions of the N.R.A.| Well Strect connections. an | and in united front action with the} nant in t is field. having enjoyed | the fruits and profits of an increas- This | ing speed-up and the 75 per cent | increase in gold price; very “goner- ously” gave its employees a 450 bonus for Xmas. But all did not |get this for it was conditioned on your period of employment. The | Idaho-Maryland mine, a rich in- | dependant producer, gave the work- jers a $5 Xmas present. Present Demands But this bribe to the the workers was not sufficient. An increasing rebellious mood was manifesting amongst the workers. | Lacking affiliation with any Union| infuenced, and some coerced, into joining a local organization called the Grass Valley Miners Pro- tective League. not had eny economic power for some years, especially since the Newmont Corporation had been} built. In fact, the reluctance of | many of the old Western Federa- | tion of Miners to join it lay in their | belief that it was a company Union. | Present Demands With the influx of new members, the past few months the League | has grown to about 1,000 members. | Under pressure from the workers | large meetings were held and com- mittees appointed to present de- | The demands as finally submitted called for a daily wage increase of $1.50, | An eight hour day from collar to| collar and the 40 hour week. This wage increase would mean roughly, | about $7 a day, or $35 a week. Put! another way, a 25 per cent, increase es compared to the 75 per cent in- | crease that the bosses were getting since last summer. Again, another pacific bribe was given the workers consisting of the afore-mentioned $50 bonus, gradu- employment. This is important, as due to the terrific speed-up there | has been a great turn-over of work-| ers in some of the properties, The Murchie Mine in particular. Sunday, May 13th, a mass meet- ing of the workers was called for what most of the men understood, the taking of a strike vote. Pre- ceding this meeting the local press was flooded with hypocritical propaganda by a boss editor to sabotage the demands of the men. In addition, the Newmont Company lyingly stated that they would be willing to shut the mines down and wait upon the settlement of indus- trial relations by Government agen- cies. They know the strike-break- ing powers of the N. R. A. ma-| chinery, if the need should demand , it. Labor Board Prevents Action With an over-flow meeting of 800 members hardly under way another | boss trick was pulled. Appearing suddenly, one Calkins, member of the San Francisco Regional Labor} Board, was given the floor by the League President, Howett. An- nouncing that he had just come from a conference with mine | managers, Nobs, Kervin and Mac- | Boyle; he proceeded to give out the usual line of demagogy for checking strike action. Emphasiz- ns Imposed By N. R. A. Steel Code EL UNION COMMITTEE OF TEN PRAISES ROOSEVELT, WHO INSPIRED AND ENFORCED THE SLAVE CODE ;mechine) has kept in the back- ground the economic demends of the strikers. At the A. A. con- vention Mike Tigh, its ‘ident, | enenly opposed the strike. my hands of it,” he themselves opposed to the proposal , for a Steel Lakor Board on ala lines of the Auto Labor Board. But at the same time they called for “collec: bargaining” with Roos I. | velt sitting down in conference wi when the pressure of the steel|thom and\ the employ: Th workers for strike becomes evident, | made it known they do not oppose a Tighe begins blustering about lead-| settlement divected by Roosevelt. ting the strike. “The Com: e2 of| Ths the wey is being Ten has no authority.” said.|to betray the steal worke manner | betra | fer cuarrel with Tighe and that he| while Jonncon, Por will be present at all nogotiations. | Tighe drooned all of the demands | he | While Mike Tiche is attacking the | Committee of Ten daily, the Com- mittee reneatedly states it has no fi cte., me: euver and hold conferences with the empl , the Committee of Ten sits in Washinzten on Roose- velt’s Coorsteps and> m: no en- ergeiic strike preparations. The steel companies ave arming to shoot | the strike out of existence if they | annot prevent it threugh the A.| the steel workers from their ego- F. of L. officials. |nomie demands, and still maintain Role of Committee of Ten | the demination of their company The propose] of members of the | Unions. Committee of Ten ier government Code Hes Brought About Strike sed “‘slections” should serve The demend of the Committee geben sGlvetesh, Works. sa ae |e ne sae the sottling of the 4 role bring played by the Committers | of Tan fo ROA ane le bring p 3 i mants under the N. R. A. is lanch- of Ton. Government sunervised a 2 able when it is recalled thet it was under the N. R. A. steel code teal union organization and the domination of the company union. Weirton shows this. A court deci- sien upheld the company union. The steel comnmanies could vey well accept this demand and still keep except the demand for union recog- nition, The Committee of Ten fol-| ; iwed Mike Tighe’s lead on this | question. In Washington they put ferward the one demand for recog- nition. When the Iron and Steel institute stated “the only issue is the closed shop,” the Committee of Ten in reply did not bring forwerd any economic demands, but stated thet they do net demand the closed shop. Commmittce Bows To Roosevelt Earl Forbeck, Committee of Ten chairman, came forward for gov- Jernment supervised “elections” the plants. The Committee asked | Reosevelt for “A collective bargain- | ing conference.” They told Roose- } elt they wented him to “enforce | ion Seven-A of the National In- ; ial Recovery Act,” is is | femend nut forward 2 of Ten in its Wes They pre St the o the Com: inston statements. 5 | Roosevelt and praised the N. R. A. The Committee of Ten declared 4 Fester, nations! secretary of f} WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, LEADER OF THE GREAT 1919 STEDL STRIKE shown sperking to a meeting of miners in Ziegler, Southern MMincis, elections means the smashing of thet the very conditions srose which prompted the workers to prepare for stvike. Ronosevalt said on May 39, 1984, in signing the renewal of the stesl code, “In order to ensure the free exercise of the rights of the employes under the previsions of Section 7-A of this act and cf Article 4 of this code, I will undertake nremptly to pro- vido, as the cccasion may demand, for the clection by employes in each industrial unit of vepresen- tatives of their own cheosing for the purrose of collective bargaining end other mutual aid and protec- tion, under the suvervision of an appropriate governmental agency en’ in accordance with suitable rules and reeulstions.” This was written on Mav 30th. How the “collective bergaining” werks under the cade may be seen from the events now going on in the stocl mills. A “vote” is teken in Weirton for cr against striko— taken by the comveny union, of course. One hundred and sixteen he Trade Union Upity League, is who voted for strike are at once fired and blacklisted. The com- pany wmions flourish under the code. The workers are fired and blecklisted under the code. The companies have installed machine guns under the code. The com- panies have the most effective spy system in the country, under the ®. This code, like all others, bears Roosevelt's signature of ap- provel. The N. R.A. apvaratus is taking the leading part in the strike-breaxing efferts now going en to defeat the demands of the steel workers, Tne steel workers must unite their forces in every mill. through joint strike committees. They will have to go over the heads of the Tighe-Leonard machine which is known as an open strike-breaking machine. The Steel and Metal Werkers Industriel Union has called for such unity. : have been dropocd by the Com- mittee of Ten, which praises Roose- velt. end which eckonwletges Mike Tighe as ite leader. ~ Only unity from below—with the wozkers’ com- mittees themselves in charge of the strike actions, can win these de- mands and defeat the maneuvers of the Tighe machine and the Roosevelt government to prevent the stri The dictatorship of the prole- tarint must be a Stete that em- bodies a new kind of domecracy, for the profetcrinns and the dis- Possessed; and a new kind of Steps for Orga docility of | The demands of the steel workers | Miners of Take First nization | ing the possibility jected upon in Washington about | July 31st, he succteded in tem- | Porarily stilling any action by the | workers, Immediately upon the conclusion of his talk the meeting was hire | Tied to a close by a motion to suse | pend all action: until July 31st. A standing vote being taken (a secret voie being denied the men for | obvious reasons) about 400 voted in | the affirmative, 25 voted negatively, and another 400 did not vote eithe | Way. of a cade being e Thus another sell-out was ' accomplished, due to the inexperi- ence of some, and the lack of of the mili- had the guts to stand up and be counted against | the sell-out. | It fs interesting to note, that a week later, word comes from the Gold Mining Associetion of Amere jica, meeting in Denver: that they are opposed to any codes for their industry. But along with about nine other Mine owners organizae | tions covering the whole metal ree | gions of the West. they decided on & request for a $100,009.009 Gove ernment Loan to stimulate the Gold | Mining industry. | Following the meeting some of the miners tore-un their cards as @ pretest against the sell-out. An act of defeatism of this kind should | never be condoned as it only leaves | the bosses and labor fakers a free hand to continue their dominance over workers, without any opposi- tion, Next Tasks the majority of the miners were| Since the meeting the bosses ara | Yapidly proceeding with prenara- tions egainst a possible strike. Ag | an indication we witness The League. has | the equipping of pumps with auto- matic electric floats. Mines must j be kept unwatered at all times, What is necessary as a next step of the miners? Firstly, the build- ing of rank-and-file committees. Centact the workers next to you. Hold sme!l meetings in your homes, | Build around the immediate dee |Mands et your mine. Prepare be- forehand against the trickery of your officers At the mestings. Secondly, as you grow in strength contact each other in all the gold mining camps. Support the build- ing of miter unemployed organiza- tions and their relief demands. De- mand low minimum dues in your Unions for the unemployed. Make allies of your unemployed brothers, Witness the united-front of em- ployed and unem: e Coast, Longshoremer Wit- ness the splendid solidarity in tho strike of your fellow-workers in Butie! And lastly, remember that the mine bosses of the West have just concluded the biggest congress ever held, in Denver, to continue your | enslavement during the reaping of tremendous profits that is greedily contemplated off the metals, in the event the bosses can force us into the Imperialist War that they are feverishly ‘preparing for. Miners of the West, you have no time to lose. Get into action for your own protection. Renew the splendid fighting traditions of your fellow workers who have passed be- fore with the rich contributions that they have given to the well- being of our class. Silk Mills Join Strike Wave in York, Pa. YORK, Pa.—Three more silk mills have been struck in the York region, in addition to the Atlas Silk Mill. Sixty employes of the Kroy Mill and forty of the H. W. G. plant, as well as 170 at the Hanover Broad Silk Works, Inc., at Hanover, Pa., are striking for wage increases and adjustments in the loom systems. The Huesner cigar firm's 72 em- ployes settied their strike when they won wage increases, union recogni- tion, a 40-hour instead of a 50-hour week, and a provision for an arbie tration board for settling differ- eness. The union celebrated with a parade and a mass meeting of to- bacco workers, The 150 girl workers of the Niren- berg shirt factory continue on strike, They were visited by a delegation of girl strikers from Tamaqua, Pa., who treked 100 miles to tell their fellow-workers in York how tear= gas attacks had failed to stop them in their strike of the Tamaqua Underwear Co. . Jron Strikes in Bridgeport And New Britain, Conn. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Workers of the Vulcan Malleable Iron Works |of New Britain, an affiliate of the Eastern Mallelable Iron Co. of Bridgeport, which has been on strike for two weeks, have gone on strike, Both the Bridgeport and New Brit- | ain strikers will concentrate on the head plant of the Eastern Malleable Iron Co. in Naugatuck, in order to make the foundry workers’ strike complete in the three Connecticut | Plants of the company. Mass pick- | eting is to continue in this strike today, despite police intimidation on the picket line yesterday. The companyytrying to operate the plant with scabs, has not been able to smuggle through enough _ strike+ | breakers to keep the plant going. oie faa Strikes in St. Louis, Chicago and Pittsburgh ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Union workers at the Major Oil and Gasoline com- panies here are out on strike, de- manding a shorter week and higher wages. In Chicago, several hundred work- ers at the Hegeler Zinc Co. at Mans ville and LaSalle have struck fot the resosnition of their own new union instead of the old company union. Six hundred and fifty workers are out on strike a‘ the Isabelle Mine dictatorship. against the bour- geoisie—Lenin, the Weirton Steel Co., near Piti burg. t REO RRR HOMER TTI 4