EVERY AMERICAN WORKER HAS A DESPERATE STAKE IN THE STEEL STRIKE

THE ISSUE IS THE WELL BEING OF OUR COUNTRY, THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF ITS CITIZENS, VERSUS THE SWELLING PROFITS OF THE GIGANTIC MONOPOLIES.

CHART OF SUPER PROFITS

Wall Street profits mount at the fantastic rate of $2. 28 for every man hour worked in steel. The last quarter showed steel profits at the highest in the history of the world. And this is not enough for those who have never worked a single day in their lives--they demand more union busting laws--weaker contracts--anything to make a dirty buck. These high profits are the real cause of inflation in this country.

ALREADY THERE ARE AT LEAST 150,000 STEEL WORKERS IN THIS COUNTRY WHO WILL NEVER WORK IN A STEEL MILL AGAIN. The new automated processes make possible increased capacity production of steel with fewer and fewer workers employed. This is, of course, not only true in steel, but is the big element in the present insecurity of all the American working people. The coal mining towns have become islands of extreme poverty, the auto industry knows the same conditions and Detroit has become a town of unemployed people at the very moment the production levels in the town are high. Nor is the Bay Area immune. There has been a considerable movement of Bay Area industry to low wage areas with the erection there of automated and semi-automated plants. At this moment 1,000 workers at Simmons Mattress in San Francisco live in the daily fear that the plant will close a new technically modern plants are opened in Southern California and elsewhere. It was the all important issue in the waterfront negotiations on the West Coast and is part of the underlying issues in the Teamsters strike in San Francisco.

movement must

The labor recognize that this drive is succeeding and the measure of its success is the stock market quotations. With the steel strike one could expect, as usually happens, that steel stock prices would go down, depreciate in value at least a little. But exsetly the opposite is happening. Not only do steel stocks hold their own, but they have even gone up in stock market price. THIS PROVES THAT AS FAR AS THE STEEL BOSSES ARE CONCERNED THINGS ARE GOING EXACTLY AS PLANNED. They treat the negotiations as a farce, and a farce they have certainly been up to now.

It is precisely at this time that President Eisenhower, using the pretext of gangsterism in a few labor unions went on the air and isqued an appeal for laws that would cripple our trade union movement and urged congress to pass the most vicious anti-labor legislation.

In the socialist Soviet Union the latest congress has produced the Seven Year Plan. What will this plan, based on peaceful competition with the capitalist world, provide for the Soviet citizen?

SAYS "BUSINESS WEEK: " In the past the Soviets have substantially filled their five-year plan goals. "

AND WHAT CAN WE, AS WORKERS, EXPECT UNDER CAPITALISM

...........UNLESS--we make our unions produce for the rank and file through a united struggle and demand for enforcement and improvement of our union contracts, for a 30 hour work week at increased wages, for an end to speed-up through control of production standards by those who work, and make the benefits of automation pay off to the American worker in increased leisure, better education, recreation, etc. instead of increased profits to the bosses. Stop the collosal waste of billions in araments spending and use this money for peaceful construction of schools, hospital, libraries, federal low-cost housing, recreation facilities, and in many other ways to promote the welfare of all the people. Demand that congress stop horsing around with anti-labor legislation, repeal the Taft-Hartley Law, pass bills shortening the work week, raise the minimum wage, mous profits of big business.

It is up to the

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labor movement to organize these demands and make them effective. The same mobilization that defeated the so-called Law" in California can, real benefits to every American.

"Right To Work

on a national scale, bring

SUPPORT THE MINE, MILL AND SMELTER

WORKERS -- INDEPENDENT

Issued By: Industrial Section of the Communist Party, San Francisco.

18

(Badorsed by Majority Tota)
(of Section Membership. )

THE AFL SECTION AND THE IDEOLOGICAL CRISES

SECTION ORGANIZER'S RUPORT

Comrades:

In the more than two years of Party crisis, and, more specifically, in the more than a year following the National Convention of our Party, the ideological struggle has sharpened, the smog of confusion has been partly penetrated, and certain erstwhile leaders of the Party have taken their leave of its ranks. While in every case these departures were voluntary in that no one has been expelled from the Party no matter how bizarre or how bourgeois his theory or his actions, nevertheless these voluntary departures occured only when the comrades in question were no longer able to impose their individual and factional will on the bulk of the Party. Because this struggle is beginning to interfere with the work of this Section, this membership meeting has been called in order to formulate the Section line and policy in the face of continuing crisis. This is all the more necessary inasmuch as the life of our Section and Clubs following the Convention has not been one of extreme concern on inner-Party matters, and up to the last few months hardly anything beyond information has become the property of the clubs. This report will concern itself with four items:

SECTION HISTORY

1. A brief review of the history of our Section from the
preconvention discussion to date;

2. An analysis of the idealogical crisis within our move-
ment;

3. The immediate specific nature of its manifestations
in Northern California; and

4. Same conclusions and recommendations.

I would like to begin by recalling to the attention of the Comrades, the resolutions passed by the Section Convention in preparation for the National Convention. * We passed a resolution on the Democratization of the South, a resolution on the People's World recommending it go on a weekly basis and urging the membership to raise the necessary funds for continuance, a resolution calling for a referendum on the final Convention Resolution, two resolutions on trade union work, the first calling for active experienced trade unionists at all levels of Party leadership, and the second calling for improved liason between trade union clubs themselves and also between the trade unions and the neighborhood clubs. A resolution of condemnation for the National Committee statement on Hungary of November 4th, a resolution on the general position of the Section stating that of all the prominent positions in the ideological discussion to date we preferred the Foster position, and, finally, a resolution that combined measures for the suppression of bureaucracy with fundamental support for the concepts of Democratic Centralism, Party Discipline, and the Vanguard role of the Party.

Following the Convention, and in the selection of our leadership, this Section resisted the trend developing in the County to abolish section organization and even industrial clubs. With difficulty and with unevenness we brought forward a Section and Club leadership and proceeded with our activity within the Trade Union Movement. While in this report I will not go into the activities of the various clubs I do wish to point out that a not inconsiderable success has attended our efforts and all or almost all of our basic organizations enjoy greater influence and status within the trade union movement than was true a year ago.

*

The Section Convention resolutions are printed in full following this report.