The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-09-03

ers, who are determined to accept no
other representatives than those Of
their own choice, while the railroad
is equally determined to pay no at
tention either to the ruling of the
Labor Board or to the will of the men.
We're the situation reversed, the
government would already have made
preparations to coerce the men. But
capital can do no wrong. Hence the
inertia of the part of the government
while the Pennsylvania is laying in
store of cots and food, and, it is
reported, GUNS-to meet eventuali-
ties!
There is only one hope for these
railway workers: in case they go on
strike, all the railway employees will
declare strike in support of the shop
crafts Of the Pennsylvania. Should all
the men fail to go out, the workers
organized in the shop crafts unions
will be defeated, despite all decisions
of the Labor Board. And THAT WILL
BE THE SIGNAL FOR A GENERAL
ONSLAUGHT ON THE RAILWAY
UNIONS!
Workers Already Betrayed.
The union leaders are doing moth
ing, in spite of the huge possibilities
Of the situation and the general
seriousness of the matter. Their de-
termination is a mere paper affair,
while the government is beginning to
back down by granting the railroad
executives an extension Of time-and
the Pennsylvania is laying in guns for
trouble.
The reactionary leaders of the
union are afraid to enter the strug-
gle. They are retreating this year,
just as they completely backed down
in 1919.
Instead, of having built up their
unions and strengthened their morale,
instead of having provided for the
emergency that they are now faced
with, they have let matters drift, in
! the fi3,rnnsrimsnass that tbe,r -waald
refuse to fight.
H. S. Jeffrey, chairman of the ad-
visory board "f .he Shop Crafts Union
of the Philadelphia Camden District,
has announced that the union will not
threaten the railroad or strike. but
will depend on patriotism and public
sentiment to force the road to obey
the order"
What piffle! What a betrayal!
Need Shop Delegate System.
This situation will continue as long
as the unions are led by men who
seek industrial peace" rather than
the welfare of the organized workers.
1t will continue as long as the unions
are divided into crafts, each nego-
tiating regional contracts with the
railroads.
The railroad workers will remain
the victims of the big controlling
groups in Wall Street, until they re-
cognize that the rank and file must
get and retain control. This they can
do only through shop organizations,
through the SHOP DELEGATE SYS-
TEN. In this system, the workers
elect representatives from every shop,
IRRESPECTIVE OF THE CRAFT.
These shop representatives, or dele
gates, from the Shop Committee,
which takes up all shop matters with
the local railway superintendents. The
Committee elects chairman, who, to,
gether with the chairmen of the Shop
Committees of other shops, form the
Local Executive Committee.
These local Executive Committees
elect all local officials. Delegates
from the Local Committees form a
District Council. All delegates to ma
tional conventions are elected in the
shops. All officials are recallable. An
delegates must report back to the
shops, which have the power to re-
move anybody at any time.
This ensures rank and file control,
This eliminates cowardly, treacherous
leaders. This makes it positive that
the WILL OF THE RANK AND
FILE WILL PREVAIL.
When the workers perceive these
facts, and when they organize in such
form that joint action Of the 2,000,-
900 railway workers will be possible,
then and then only will the Pennsyl-
vania, and with it, all the other lines,
not dare to defy either the workers or
! the Labor Board.
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