The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-26
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Lieutenants of EMPLOYERS.

falyIng the workers to resist TINS
dangerous attack, have surrendered Il
it. Worse, they are actually helping
the employers 70 reduce the workers
standards Of life and employment, tc
weaken their industrial and political
organizations, and to confuse theil
understanding They are demonstra.
ting themselves to be what they are
in fact, lieuteAants of the employers
in the ranks Of the workers.
VIII Not Fight Bosses.
The reactionary union officials dc
nothing to equip the workers to fight
for better conditions and against i'm
pending wage cuts. Basing them.
selves on a thin fringe of skilled
workers, they do nothing to organize
the unorganized masses of semi
skilled and unskilled workers. They
refuse to amalgamate the obsolete
craft unions into modern industrial
unions. They reject every semblence
Of a militant wage policy, even
though the employers cut the uniors
to pieces as they are now destroying
the United Mine Workers.
The heads of the unions have be-
come auxiliaries of the employers to
speed up the workers in industry.
They are rapidly abandoning the
strike in theory and practice and are
cultivating among the workers the
dangerous illusion that the way for
the toilers to improve conditions is by
cooperation" tie, surrender toy the
employers. Their Baltimore and Ohio
Plan, new wage policy, and similar
schemes, come from the brains of
capitalistic industrial efficiency en-
gineers. They rebound entirely to the
benefit of the employers and are
fatal to the organization and stan
dards Of the workers.
Company Union Menace.
The employers strive to establish
company unionism among their work
ers. Instead of combating this move
ment by an active struggle to es-
tablish vigorous trade unions, the
union leaders capitulate to it. Their
policy amounts to company union
ling the trade unions, to making the
trade unions so subservient to the
employers, through class collabora-
ton ''union-management cooperation, y
no fight policies, that the employers
will discard their own company
unions and accept the degenerated
trade unions The Watson Parker
railroad law, adopted with full sup
port of the union leaders, went far
towards company unionizing the rail
road unions, with its no-strike, COM
pulsory arbitration provisions.
Buying Out Capitalists"
The employers through their vast
publicity systems, spread illusions
that American workers are prosper
Gus, that they can, out of the meagre
savings, actually buy the industries,
and that therefore all talk of strug-
gle against the employers is out of
the question. The trade union leaders
are in full step with this insidious
propaganda. Through their trade
union capitalism labor banks, labor
corporations, trade union
life insurance companies, etc) they
propagate and organize around these
destructive illusions. The disastrous
consequences of this whole system
were dramatically illustrated by the
collapse of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers financial institu-
lions in an atmosphere of corruption
and graft almost without parallel in
this country, many millions OF the
workers money being wasted and
stolen and the entire organization I'M
demined.
Accept Imperialist Program.
The trade union leaders accept as
their own the general political pro-
gram, domestic and foreign, of the
imperialistic employers. Like the
bosses, they are bitterly opposed to
the workers breaking from the two
capitalist parties and forming a labor
party. Going cheek by jowl with the
American Legion, they greet with en-
thusiastic approval every plan for
militarizing the workers. They are
saturated with Imperialism. The
foreign policy of the U. S. govern
ment is also the policy of the A. F.
of L. leaders. Their Pan-American
Federation of Labor is only an instru-
ment of the American imperialists to
subjugate the peoples of Latin Amer
lea. Their maneuvers in connection
with the Amsterdam international are
part of the strategy of the employers
to enslave Europe. They support the
world capitalist attempts to crush the
Chinese revolution and to overthrow
the Soviet Republic.
Prosecute Labor Militants.
In order to break all resistance to
their program of demoralizing and
subjugating the workers, the capital
lists have long carried on a campaign
of militant persecution against the
most active and advanced elements in
the labor movement. In this their
most loyal and effective allies are the
trade union leaders. To kill the
fighting spirit of the unions and to
maintain themselves in power they
are increasingly stealing elections,