The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-16
LABOR PARTY is
DEMAND OF REDS
IN CLEVELAND
Call On the Unions to
Support Conference

land has sent a letter to all labor or
PLANTATIONS Of this city pointing out
the necessity for the formation of
labor party to work In the interests
Of the working class.
The letter, printed below, calls upon
ell labor bodies to indorse the call for
conference on the matter Of labor
participation in the coming municipal
elections here.
The letter follows:
ITO labor organizations of Cleve-
land:
with the approach of elections,
the question comes to the front, What
is the government doing for the work
ers?
THE usual experience after cleo
tons has been betrayal of the in
terests of labor by the successful can
didates regardless of the amount Of
pro-labor noise they may have made
during the campaign.
counciImen Serve Railroads.
ut is now well-known that most of
the seventeen councilmen endorsed by
organized labor at the last municipal
election have served the New York
Central and allied railroad interests
and forgotten the workers whose
votes elected them.
Organized labor we'll remembers
the milk drivers strike of three years
ago when the city government put po-
licemen on the wagons to protect the
scabs.
THE street car men have fresh in
their minds the freedom allowed John
Stanley in his strike-breaking prepar-
atoms recently and the police protec-
ton provided the company for strike
breakers in times past
''The city administration bitterly
fought against the payment of union
wages to city employees some months
ago even after the courts had decid-
ed in favor of the wage increase.
When the garbage collectors two
years ago demanded a thoroly desery-
ed increase in pay and improvement
in conditions, they found out that the
city government is just as willing as
any other boss to employ strike-break-
ers, and besides, it has the police all
ready to protect its scabs.
Labor Must Exert Political Power.
THE recent decision of the Ohio
state supreme court against the street
railwaymen and the failure of the fed
eral government to punish the Teapot
Dome oil thieves are reminders Of
what the workers are now coming to
accept without argument; that from
the city up, the government is in the
hands of the employing class which
uses the governmental power to in
crease profits and keep down the
workers.
"History offers abundant proof Of
the fact that what little has ever been
gained by labor from a capitalist gov
eminent has been only because of
the political power it has exerted. Be-
cause labor has been so weak politicl-
~ it has gained practically nothing.
On the other hand, there has develop
ed in the United States the worlds
most powerful financial oligarchy
whose motto is, Destroy the Unions
The American plan is the policy of
these capitalistic interests watch TO-
day control government frcIu city
councils up.
ITO fight the American plan and
the open shop campaign means to
fight not only the industrial control Of
the financial interests, but their poll
teal power as well.
The Workers Party maintains that
labor should abandon forever it's nom
partisan policy of supporting which
ever old party politician shouts the
loudest before election in favor of la
Dor. The policy of following in the
train of so-called Progressive part
les led by professional politicians or
friends of labor must also be given
up, because such parties in reality
represent business interests, If not
those of Wall Street, then the smaller
fry who are not one whit less anxious
than the big interests to grind out
OF labor every possible penny
Labor must adopt once and for all
the policy of voting as class for its
own candidates. Let labor form a
labor party, composed of the unions
and political and other organizations
Of workers willing to unite on the
basis of independent working class
political action against the common
enemy, the capitalist class.
I'VE urge upon your organization
10 give the fullest consideration to
this question and to endorse the cal
ling OF conference on the matter of
labor participation in the coming mu-
nipal elections and the formation OF
a labor party for Cleveland.
Down with Che industrial and polit-
zeal rule of the open shoppers Up
with independent political action by
the working classl Forward to la
Dor partyl Forward TO workers con-
troll"
Workers Party Of America