The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-07
Labor Takers Aid TGmmany inn. Y. Election
Young Coal Miner Addresses
Convention.
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ernor Smith, the result of years of
effort on the part of the organized Ia
Dor movement They do not hesitate
openly to sell the labor movement to
it's sworn enemies and simultaneously
to stiffle every effort on the part of
the workers to launch a labor ticket
and labor party.
Labor Officials for Injunction Judge.
The last eight years under Tam
many Han has been characterized by
the most Migrant disregard of the in
terests of the toilers of the city.
Judge Thomas Churchill, one of the
idols of the democratic party, Endorsed
by the Central Trades and Labor
Council has been responsible for an
Injunction against the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America, which
injunction is Of so sweeping char
acter that today it threatens the very
life and existence of every labor or
ganization in the city of New York.
The city employees have been treated
shamefully under the Tammany ad-
ministration, whenever they have,
sought to improve their conditions.
The prevailing scale of wages is be-
ing violated by the city in numerous
instances.
Pickets and strikers have been
brutally assaulted by the police and
the courts have handed down heavy
sentences on the fIimsiest evidence.
This has been particularly true in the
case OF the foreign-born workers, es-
pecially in the needle trades.
Socialists Afraid to Fight Smith.
What has been the attitude of the
socialist party under these circum-
stances? the socialist officials in the
trade unions have not dared to take
up the cudgels against the Tammany
Hall labor bureaucrats in behalf of in
dependent action. In the Central
Trades and Labor Council, in the So
called labor fusion" convention and
in the socialist-controlled labor press,
they carefully avoid giving Jimmy
Walkers faithful henchmen any Of
Tense. In fact the relations between
these two groups of labor takers has
been more than friendly in their pol
icy of misleading the workers.
When faced with dissatisfaction and
open rebellion in the /. l., G. w. u. It
was Governor Smiths commission
which stepped in and by its action
lined up the state government on the
side of the officials OF the right wing
and the employers against the gar
ment workers and closed the door 10
the possibility of strike for their
demands. Turnout. the conflict be-
tween the left wing and right wing,
the courts and the police were re-
peatedly used in behalf Of the Of
hcials against the mass of the revolt
ing members of the union. ,'es g3
Socialists Serve Employers.
Under these circumstances the lead
ers Of the socialist party definitely de-
termined to split the forces Of the
labor movement on the political field
and thus render valuable service to
the employers. They have proven
themselves to be the enemies Of the
unity Of the labor movement.
In spite Of the offer made by the
Workers Party for a united labor
ticket, they have decided to follow
sectarian policy under their own
banner camoufaged under the name
OF the Tabor fusion ticket, which de-
ceiyes no one. Due to this suicidal
policy, labor stands divided and weak
In this election campaign before the
powerful onslaughts Of the parties Of
big business.
Workers Party For Labor's Unity. #.
In this situation the Workers Party