The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-22

lIduS OIllOL EuucdJlOudl League
and Brooklyn and calling upon
them to insist upon a United
Front of all organized bakers to
fight their real enemy, the bak-
cry bosses.
The open letter follows:
To the Workers of coney Island and
BrookIynI
The organized workers in the baking
industry are faced with a deplorable
situation. About so per cent of the
industry is under the so-called open
shop which is constantly and steadily
spreading.
The large bakeries, such as Ward
Baking Co., General Baking Co.,
Shultz Baking Co., Cushman and
Gottfried, are non-union, it is the
small cellar bakery that is unionized.
The Bakers Trust is gradually put
ting the small baker out of business,
thus more firmly establishing the open
shop turnout the industry.
The organized bakers in Greater
New York are scattered and divided.
A section is organized in the Interna-
tional Bakery and Confectionery
Workers Union affiliated with the
American. Federation Of Labor and
another section in the Amalgamated
Food Workers Union, an Independent
organization.
Both are labor unions striving to
better the lot of the workers in the
baking industry, both are struggling
bitterly against the greedy bosses,
both are worthy of the support and
cooperation of every worker and
every workers organization.
For the last six weeks the Bakers
Union No. 1853, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, has
carried on publicity and organiza-
ton campaign by leaflets and open air
meetings.
In this campaign, the object of
which is to organize the non-union
shops, a serious mistake is being COM
mitted. The mistake is twofold-first
in carrying on campaign against the
Amalgamated Food Workers, a Sec
ton of organized bakers outside of the
conservative American Federation of
Labor, and, second, in trying to disor-
ganize organized bakers instead of or
ganizing the non-union shops.
This campaign tends to weaken the
present organization of the bakers.
promotes decentralization within the
union ranks, and creates a state of
war among the organized bakery
workers.
The Bakers Section of the Trade
Union Educational League feels it a
duty to call the attention of the or
ganized bakers and the workers of
Coney Island and Brooklyn to this I'M
justified and injurious campaign by
one union against another, which pro-
mulgates brother warfare, detri-
mental to the best interests of the
bakers and the organized labor move
ment.
Such a campaign must stop! War
among the Bakers must goi The
Bakers of Greater New York must
learn by the experiences and follow
the example of the Bakers locals in
the Bronx.
The Bronx Local No. 1859, affiliated
with the American Federation of La
Dor, and Local No. 1874, affiliated with
the Amalgamated Food Workers, have
for some time inaugurated United
Front policy. One union win not try
to take organized shops away from an.
other, which the Brooklyn American
Federation ofsLabor bakers are trying
to do in their present publicity and
organization campaign, especially, con.
Quoted in Coney Island.
1t must be definitely recognized
that the organization Of the Bakers
In the American Federation OF Labor
and the organization OF bakers in the
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