The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-04-23
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Now comes to bat real UNAMERICAN strike, All
strikes unAmercan Of but the strike of the tout
law unions is particularly u-Amercan Strikes engineered
by the reaconay leaders of labor not in good taste to the
boss class at any time But strikes against the boss class of the
capitalist system well against the bosses in the unions i
that kind of strike is hell, enough. D.
Tired of waiting for Wilson'S adminisra. Railroad
Brotherhood chiefs to ont Of words and to as pfabs
realizing that action, action, spoke louder fer
and arbitration several thousand railroad wOrh>
strike r Chicago. In almost day the strike sprea,
dozen industrial centers. The Chicago meat industry ii
out of business Coal shortage threatened Ohio ndustrs Th
steel mills hard hit Freight tied up of
yards And all this because few thousand workers struck
$4,000 ont of total employed in the railroad industry oil
100000 is the number the capitalist papers give.
Two dozen reactonary Brotherhood officials signed AMI
order commanding the strikers to back to work And they
did not The strikers threatened with loss Of their union
standing, their union benefits To avail Then the Brother
hood officials acted true to form and began calling for loya
Brotherhood to take the places of the strikers! The result
fremen and engnomen joined the strikers and refused to work
with the union scabs.
Tears shed by the capitalist daies because the work
gave warning before they struck. Mr. Gompers was
asked point blank by his bourgeois mentors whether he really
knows what is going inside his organization Strikes in such
numbers he New York harbor rke the Kansas coal strike
and with such sympathetic relationships and with such demon
sraon of design to win by force rather than the merits
of the industrial struggle New York Tmes) queer
phenooa to the capitalist class and yet not for this class
with Sovietsm and that the Strikes the outaw strikes
linked with what is called Russian propaganda" Do
need to add that all propaganda is Rusan propaganda
which seeks to lberate the workers from wage slavery?
What interests us whole lot is the appearance in the
American labor movement of "outlaw unions new class
phraze 'outlaw unions In day to teacher will ask
little Willie: Wie, what kind Of unions outlaw Unions
in the days when capitalism rled? And little Willie will
Outaw unions those which rebeed against the
reaconary A. f. Of L. leadership well against the
ployng class" One hundred per cent in history for Wile
Hail the outlaw unions! We have them now in almost
every trade represented in the A. F. of L. The chiefs Of the
Brotherhoods in joint statement described the of the
strikes attempt by radicals to advance the One Big
Union idea That's what all the "ces have said about their
outlaw unions We say
All right! Guilty!
AS this is written the railroad workers strike is increasing
in strength And the capitalist daes cutting funny antics
In oum they report that the strike has reached its peak
and is losing In another column they report thousands of
additional strikers agumenng the forces of those already out
The strikers rencgades the strike is termed 'hcadless
all of which good signs for the the lackeys of the
capitalist class bobard it the better strike it st be- and
it is really headcss-we said before, let the slogan
among the labor unions from be "a power to the
workers..
The administration H. the meantime is handling the stua
ION gngery if that that they up the air. 1t
this way the administration inerferes it may kinde the
flames and if it DON'T they may ditto So does not know
what do Palmer nosng about b looking for mandate
hailing directly from Russia ordering the strike!
The strike may yet have political significance The Lever
act is still in working order and the coal miners enioned
you know We'll amend this by saying that the strike already
has political Significance Is it not against the administrations
success making moies out of the Brotherhood chiefs?
Whether the strike of the 'outaws' is lost il
the end the strike the second thrt
day for registered spirit Of revolt among the railroad
workers which will help settle the fate of capitalism.
This parting shot--lF THE NINE AND STEEL WORK
ERS HAD WAITED UNTIL NOW, AND THEN-ALI
TOGETHER!