The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-02

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NOCAbAh0O0 AAOhA Po5O LIZ
wages and Intellectual darkness, the
100000 agricultural wage workers of
the United Statest stand out as the
most victimized portion of the Ameri.
can proletariat.
The workers who gather the wheat
harvest are an especial class within
the American agricultural proletariat,
and the good fight the A. W.. |. U. No.
ITO has put UP to organize these work
ers deserves and receives the admira.
ton and support of the Red Interna-
tional Affiliation Committee At the
close of good crop year and other ia
vorable conditions, it is credit to the
A. w. !. U. No. ITO that it has not only
succeededSin initial organization work
in the wheat harvest, but has-accord.
ing to your Bulletin No. 31-attained
ing job action by system of centraL
ization around stationary delegates in
definite districts If this plan has the
results it promises, it should be made
tended to unorganized territory.
Your convention will, Of course.
have in mind the problem of organic.
ing the great mass of exploited agri-
cultural wage workers of this country
Of which the summer drive for the or
ganization of the migratory harvest
workers is but an infinitesimal frac-
ton. The great mass of 100000 ag-
ricultural wage workers are totally
unorganized. The reactionary unions
of Gompers and Company have com
pletely ignored the workers of this in
dustry. If they are to be organized
at all, it will be by an organization
which uses in this larger field the
same spirit and persistence the A. w.
I. U. No. ITO uses in the wheat har-
vest.
Anyone who approaches this gigantic
task with serious purpose of accom-
plishment will feel the need of pro-
found consideration of objective con-
ditions, not only of the national situa-
ton but of conditions obtaining in the
agricultural industry thruout the
world. The question, moreover, for
revolutionary union, presents itself
quite differently than it does for con.
sentative union which does not see,
beyond the present undoubted need
for more wages and shorter hours, the
overthrowal of the capitalist system
and the rule of the working class.
With the vision of an ultimate rev.
dictionary goal in mind, the problem
of course, appears more difficult. But
with a program which harmonizes
with those definite tendencies which,
within capitalism, are working for its
destruction, the work of the revolu-
tionary industrial unionist may be so
directed as to go forward with the cur
rent of social forces instead of against
them. To determine future action a
broad view of political economy is re-
quired. And what do we see?
Capitalist production internationally
is in historic decline. The imperialist
contradictions and rivalries which
brought about the war, far from being
solved by it, have become aggravated
by it, and the struggle is now on
higher plane of ferocity. Finance. the
life blood of capitalist exchange. has
Collapsed in most of Europe, dragging
industrial production down with 1t
and operating to such wide extent
that crisis in agricultural production
has spread thruout the world. In Am.
erica, where the concentration OF
wealth in agriculture has taken the
form of financial centralization-whil
nominal ownership is left in the hands
of the farmer-we have seen 100000
farmers bankrupted and great masses
driven into the wage working class.
Tho subject to temporary relief, agri-
culture. in common with all capitalist
production, is. in "A series of curves,
declining. Capitalism has reached