The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-10
BY CARL BRANNIN.

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dications of this were seen when the
miners, railwaymen and transport
workers joined hands on certain
Friday last July to protect the miners
from a wage cut and forced the Bald
win government to subsidize the min
ing industry for nine months rather
than make the workers suffer for the
greed Of the operators. This Red
Friday" demonstration of working
class solidarity announced to the
world that the limit had been reach
ed-that British labor was Of single
mind to stand together and fight. The
recent (Sept. 7-12) Trade Union Con-
gress at Scarborough, gave definite
confirmation of this new orientation.
The 726 delegates representing nearly
Az million organized workers, met in
an atmosphere of high morale over
the setback given the employing in
terests.
THE opening speech Of Pres. A. B.
4 Swales seemed to set the pace for
the congress, but what is really true,
is that he was only voicing the SEN
timents of the rank and file, when he
hit straight from the shoulder at the
whole capitalist system:
There are surely signs over the
whole field of industry which indicate
that vast and revolutionary changes
must take place in industrial struc-
ture to meet the changed conditions.
Men and women are not going to re-
main content with a condition Of So
ciety which condemns millions of hui
man beings to want the necessaries
of life, while as a result of educa-
ton and knowledge they know too
we'll and see quite clearly that nature
in it's bounteousness can supply all
their legitimate needs by the proper
organization of society upon basis of
collective ownership.
INDUSTRIES are in an appalling
condition and the employing class
stand aghast at their own handiwork.
For. almost century and half theirs
has beenot the 1task 30 apply the eco
nomic policy of industry. Deny it
as they may the present chaos is of
their making, for they consistently
and persistently denied the workers
the slightest measure of control. Hav-
ing produced these conditions, the
possessing class are afraid of their
own production and now they cry to
the unions: Let us come together;
sit down with us. and examine the
present condition of trade and com
merce. See if we cannot to-
gether save our system from totter-
ing to its last fall Many of our good
comrades who in the days gone by,
taught us to believe there was no
remedy other than the abolition of
capitalism seem afraid, now that the
system is collapsing, and appeal for
a united effort to patch up the sys-
tenn with the aid of the present pos
sessing class.
THOSE who believe that a new
4 order of society is inevitable be-
fore we can remedy the existing evils
and to which in this address have
directed attention-cannot do other
than rejoice that at last there are
clear indications of a world move
ment rising in revolt and determined
to shake off the shackles of wage
slavery. Just as our people have pass
ed out of slavedom into serfdom, and
out of serfdom into wagedom, so will
they finally pass out of wagedom into
freedom.
"The new phase of development,
which is world wide, has entered up
on the next and probably the last
stage of revolt. II is the duty of all
members of the working class to so
solidify their movement that, .come
when theotime may for the last final
struggle, we shall be wanting in
neither machinery, nor men, to move