The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-24
Seattle Labor Protests EXCURSIONS

enemies, the BOSSES, and substituting
instead Of government by big bust
ness and the banks, government by
the industrial workers and working
farmers.
Against Capitalist Parties.
Some members Of this council be-
lieve that instead of building indie
pendent political organizations of the
working, class, we should cooperate
with the political organizations Of our
enemies, the republican and demo-
cratic parties, (the parties of big
business, of the open shoppers and
the union busters). AS Communists.
we declare such tactics to be detri-
mental to the interests of labor, and
affirm that in every case in history
where this plan has been followed, it
has led ultimately to disaster for the
workers.
In this connection we might refer
you to a recent attempt Of this ma
ture, namely, the endorsement Of Ed
ward Clifford, for governor of the
state of Washington by many labor
organizations, which resulted after
his defeat in the primaries, in thou
sands of workers who had voted in
the primaries for Clifford, following
the lead of said Clifford and voting
for Hartley, the arch-enemy of labor.
in the general election; and we point
you to subsequent actions of Mr..
Hartley Gas for instance his stand
on the child labor amendment) as
proof Of the correctness Of the Com
munist position that the workers have
nothing to gain, but every to lose by
cooperation of this character with
the capitalists, and future events in
Mr.. Hartley's administration we are
sure will further vindicate the Com
munists in this contention.
It is because of numberless in
stances Of betrayal of this character
that we have come at last to the
point where we affirm the Communist
position-independent political action
Of the working class as a class free
from all entangling alliances with the
parties OF our enemies, the bosses
and we claim the right to take this
position without interference from
those members in this council who
are still so backward in their political
thinking as to believe that the work
ers can gain from alliances with the
organizations of their enemies.
Furthermore, as Communists we De-
lieve that "the times are ripe, and
rotten ripe for change" in labor's
economic organizations. Sixty years
ago the plan Of organizing workers by
crafts and professions was in har-
mony with social and industrial devel-
opment, but today we affirm that such
organizations, facing the united or
! CARNATIONS of the bosses, are obso-
lete and moribund The next step in
the evolution of labor unions is to-
ward unity-no more splits-no more
dual unionism-class unity in the eco
nomic organizations, as in the politi-
cal organizations of the workers.
Oppose JurisdlctionaI Disputes.
At the present time, great interna-
tional unions, instead of fighting the
bosses, fight each other. Witness the
present fatricidal war between the
carpenters and the sheet metal work
ers, which is wrecking the California
Building Trades Council, and in which
in some cases Gas in Kansas City last
summer) attempts have been made
to organize dual unions Of carpen-
tiers to scab on the union carpenters
who were striking, mot against the
bosses) but against the sheet metal
workers, members of another union
in the building industry. We maintain
that these events, arising out of an
out-worn form of organization chow
ever good such organization may have
been in its day. are the real danger
to our labor movement, and that such
fights are disrupting, wrecking and