and who had rejoiced at his arrests, respected him in death. 
The Youngstown Vindicator devoted an editorial to him, 
and said in part: 

"Those who have to do with public affairs frequently have 
found themselves disagreeing sharply with the causes which Joe 
Dallet championed, but all of them came to respect the rugged 
honesty of his character and some of them, at least, came to regard 
with real affection the earnest personality which looked so straight-
forwardly out of his brown eyes. 

"Whatever may be said of Joe's ideology as a Communist 
worker, certainly he had a steadfast devotion to an idea which 
he pursued without regard to the consequences for himself. That 
he should fall in battle for the cause he cherished, at the head 
of a charge which he felt was in behalf of liberty and justice to 
man, is thoroughly typical of his character." (Oct. 21, 1937.) 

As a true Communist, Joe Dallet did not wait until the 
C.I.O. had organized steel. With many others, he worked 
under the leadership of William Z. Foster, trying to organ-
ize the steel workers in 1932-34 into the Steel and Metal 
Workers Industrial Union, and later assisted the growing 
progressive forces in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, 
Steel and Tin Workers. In those years, when the field had 
been abandoned by the A. F. of L., when there was no 
mighty organized C.I.O. movement, when organizers got no 
pay, Dallet worked tirelessly—first in McKeesport, then in 
South Chicago, finally settling in the Mahoning Valley 
territory, in Ohio.

In every steel town in Ohio, workers in the mills remem-
ber the organizing work of Joe. Sometimes it led to strike 
struggles, as in the Warren mill in September, 1932, or 
among the Republic chippers in Youngstown in October, 
1933. Other times, organization was limited to certain de-
partments with small concessions granted. But in every case 
it was slow and difficult work. These were all company 
towns. Joe Dallet was known in all of them, and part of the

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