Abstract

Company Unions and the A. F. of L

On Saturday, June 16, 1934, the day after the tragic fizzling-out of the militant rank-and-file strike movement in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, described in "The Nation" of two weeks ago the author went to a great steel workers' picnic, held in a vast park beside a lake on the outskirts of Canton, Ohio. The picnic was organized by the Sixth District of the A. A., which includes the lodges in Canton, Youngstown, and the lesser steel towns thereabouts. Several thousand workers were there mostly steel men with their families and girl friends. It was an all-day affair. Most of the folks had baskets of its with them, and beer, soda pop, hot dogs, sandwiches, and ice cream were to be had at the big pavilion near the shooting-galleries.