The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06

in the days when that organization WI
lutionary struggle in America, the "In-
dustrial Worker" is now gravely i'm
periled.
Year after year its precarious life
was always sustained by the loyal
mass Of members who looked upon as
their expression and who believed in
it as they believed in the principle of
the class struggle.
The Basic Cause.
Today, the Industrial Worker" is
in danger, only because the mass of
members no longer receive it as their
expression, but as an opponent Of
what they believe in, as a censor
gagged organ of clique.
Only because the workers have lost
faith and lost confidence in the "In-
dustrial Worker" only when the mem
bers Of the 1. w. W., to whom it is
supposed to belong, reject it as alien
to their ideas, could the capitalist
class dare to strike the blow.
Quite time ago, the Industrial
Worker" began advertising boycott
against a certain business place of
Seattle, called Our House" It is not
in the scope of this committee to dis
cuss the merits of this particular boy
colt.
Errors of Policy.
It is only obvious, however, that in
the craze of the /. w. w. to ignore
political questions, and to turn every
thing into an economic" action, the
fellow workers of the northwest fail
ed to make the release of the Cen
tralia victims paramount political is
sue and, instead, turned to the mere
fruitless and alleged economic" task
of furnishing some particular bour-
geois-without, take note, any realis-
tic conception that consumers boy
colt is only a weak and usually futile
substitute for organized strike action
at the point of production.
But whatever the mistakes of the
1. w. w. in laying down the boycott
on "Our House" or any other bour-
geois, the Red International Afiliation
Committee declares that the recent
injunction asked for by "Our House"
against the Industrial Worker" to
give control of the paper, the paper
of the workers, into the hands of the
capitalist class, this injunction must
/ be fought against tooth and nail by
every worker, member of the l. w. w.
or not. The "Our House" injunction
is as damnable blow at the work
| ing class as was the injunction asked
for by Jim Rowan against the l. w. w.
impossible Leadership.
Every worker, every member of
the l. w. w. must rally to the sup
port of the Industrial Worker" and
save it for the working class. 1t is a
sign of the utter incompetence Of the
present general executive board, and
the criminal spleen of the general
secretary treasurer, pro tenn, that
when appealed to in behalf of saving
the Industrial Worker" they refuse
all assistance, and manifest a cynical
Indifference toward the life of pa
per which is the embodiment Of the
sacrifices of the workers of the north
west. And this, merely because they
are opposed to it's present policy.
1t is sufficiently we'll known that
the Red international Affiliation Com
mites is completely opposed to the
policy of the Industrial Worker" as
it has been for some years. The
Industrial Worker" under the guild
ance of stupid ignoramuses Of fanatic
sectarianism, has become the shame
full mouthpiece of Russian counter
,Fevolution, of SANDER against the
workers and peasants Soviet, of
hackneyed capitalist lies, of pacifism
in the class struggle, of hair-brained
philosophers against the dictatorship
Of the proletariat and continuous mis-
representation of the Red Information
al of Labor Unions and the commun-
lists.
Save the Paper; Change Its Policy.
Against such ideas, which are dam
gerous to and against the interests
of the working class, the Red Interna-
tional Affiliation Committee has not
ceased to struggle. We urge that
those branches which are mistakenly
Withholding funds and assistance
from the Industrial Worker" imme-
diately reconsider and render the pa
per every support, demanding, how
ever, that complete reversal of pol
icy be guaranteed as follows:
1. No support of Rowan, his in
junction or Emergency Program"
calling for splitter any other split
in the !. w. w. 2. No attacks on
Soviet Russia or any other workers
organizations, political or Industrial
3. No more pacifsm and non-resist-
ance, but class struggle. 4. No CEN
sorship against any member Of the
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