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Tighe Resorts to New Trickery to Win Men's Confidence
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PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 11.—Tremendous rank and file pressure for a general steel strike is again forcing Mike E. Tighe, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, to resort to militant sounding phrases to cover his betraying deeds in Washington and in order to be in a position on June 14, at the union convention, to behead the strike movement.

"There is little or no merit in the government's proposal," said Tighe in a statement today, intended for the steel workers, without informing them that Tighe had approved of Roosevelt's company union strike-breaking proposal.

Tighe's statement was interpreted here by the capitalist press as an effort to line him up with the rank and file committee in their confused bolting from Washington, so that he could have a better face at the convention.

Expect Sharp Fight

All of this is an indication that a sharp fight will develop at the convention around the issue of an immediate calling of a strike of all steel workers on a united front, regardless of organizational affiliation. Only the most determined efforts of the rank and file, organizing themselves before and at the convention to reject any of the government's arbitration proposals with the steel trusts, and demand that the convention concern itself mainly with immediate strike preparation and organization, can defeat Tighe's new maneuvers and insure the proper struggle to win the demands of the steel workers.

This can be carried out only on the basis of a united front between the A. A. rank and file and the Steel and Metal Workers' Industrial Union, giving confidence to the unorganized, and those organized around shop committees.

(Special to the Daily Worker)

SWISSVALE, Pa., June 11.—Although in Washington Mike Tighe thought the Johnson plan contained "many important concessions" from the Steel Institute, today in Pittsburgh he told the press, "There is little or no merit in the proposal."

And Earl Forbeck demonstrated the complete fusion of the Committee of Ten with Tighe's machine by declaring, "We don't want to strike, no one wants to strike, and we won't unless compelled to do so."

The strength of the strike sentiment which still exists despite all the false moves of the leaders, was shown at an Amalgamated District 1 meeting in West Homestead last

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Rank, File Presses For Steel Strike
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...night, when 200 delegates from 24 lodges voted unanimously to carry out the strike ultimatum.

The A. A. convention is set for Thursday in Elks Hall, Pittsburgh, at which strike plans are to be discussed. To discover by what means the A. A. leaders are keeping down sentiment among the rank and file for a united front with the S. M. W. I. U., one of the Amalgamated lodge presidents was asked what plans were being made, his answer, evidently handed from headquarters, was, "Oh, that is all fixed. The big fellow, A. A. leaders, have a secret agreement with the Reds for united action."

Asked why the agreement was so secret, he said, that is necessitated by the public sentiment which would be aroused against the strike, if an alliance with the steel metal workers were announced.

Actually, however, the A. A. leaders, all of them, have consistently refused to weld a united front with the S. M. W. I. U.