The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-27
TRUST
HIT BY dunno
in GARY MEET
MilitantS Must Stay in
Unions, He Says
CspeoIaI to 7he paIIy w0rkerl

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with so little production cost,
as in the Gary steel mills, Will
fliam F. Dunno told an audience
of steel workers in Turner Hall
here Thursday night at a meet
ing held under the auspices of
the American Federation of
Labor to organize the steel.
workers.
Labor Has Big Task.
"The struggle of the labor move
ment for power has become more bit
lter," Dunno declared, "and today the
labor movement faces more severe
problems than ever before. The con-
troll by the steel tnust of the steel in
dustry has developed much faster
than the labor movement Itself has
developed. Out of 25 million workers
only about four and one half million
are organized, and this four and one
half million exerts more power than
the great mass of unorganized work
ers, because organization increases
power in geometric proportion.
Unfortunately this is understood
far better by the bosses than by the
workers.
1.-THE workers of Gary are at least
80 per cent of the population Of Gary.
But who speaks for Gary when the
town breaks into the capitalist press?
The ten per cent of the people who
live on your labor, are the ones who
speak for Gary to the outside world
the Chamber Of Commerce, the Steel
Corporation oficials-they are the
ones who speak for Gary"
Comrade Dunno said that the trusts
spend millions of dollars to prevent
the minds of the workers from being
owned by the workers. "If you steel
workers owned your own heads" he
added, "there would have been a pow
erful steel workers union in Gary
long ago." He mentioned the Chamber
of Commerce literature which boasts
to outside business interests that
there are no unions in Gary. "The
Chamber Of Commerce says to other
business concerns, Come to Gary and
be welcomed by u.s. The workers have
nothing to say here. Lots of money
can be made on the unorganized labor
that floods Gary. The wage here is
only A cents an hour and there is lots
of profit to be had
Bosses Like Kings.
To-day all the wealth of the country
has been secured by little handful of
individuals who are more powerful
than any king and who rule over the
ITO million people in the United
States, the majority of whom are
workers. 1t is the same in every in
dustry, and it is the same in Gary.
Dunno declared the trade and in
dustrial unions to be the basic in
struments Of the struggle of the work
ers for emancipation. $50 far as the
existing trade unions are concerned,
we have many criticisms to make,
nevertheless our policy and the policy
of the Third international continues
to be the same, back into the unions
We see clearly there must be built a
powerful trade union movement
There are no other. unions at the pres
ent time except the American FEEDER
alton of Labor. Feeble, no doubt, they
are in many instances, nevertheless
they are the basic instruments Of our
struggle. Upon the members of the
Workers Party rests a great RESPONSE
bility. There will never be great
amount of organization in Gary until
the revolutionists step in and lead the
Organization, looking upon the organ
ization and strengthening of the
unions as their greatest task.
There never was a time in the his
tory of the country when the whole
system of political tyranny and in
dustrial despotism has been chal-
lenged as 1t is at the present time
by the masses OF the workers and
farmers. The grip OF the powerful
bosses of the nation and the owners
of the great newspapers has been
broken. The capitalists have lost their
grip upon the American masses.
There is much confusion in this I'M
rest Of the masses who are breaking
away from the instruments OF capital
ism but thru it all runs the red thread
of skeptism and revolution against the
capitalists.
Asks Support For Foster.
There's one good way of showing
your desire TO organize in Gary, and
that is casting a tremendous vote for
William 2. Foster for president, the
man who organized the workers
against the steel trust. This would be
a tremendous inspiration to the work
ers thruout the entire country"
George Carbne told of the early
struggles Of the United Mine Workers
OF America to organize In Illinois.
Fred Dietrich, of the Gary Painters
Local Union and chairman Of the Gary
Central Labor body, also spoke. Many
copies Of the DAILY WORKER were