The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-19
Trends in the American Labor Movement
as Shown by Recent Developments
the Federation of Labor Doing
Strengthen the Unions and Repel the Attack of the Capitalists
and GOvernmen?-The Coming Convention SaccO Van
zetti MoOney-Labor Party Issue-War Danger
Organization" Drives.

organization Drives.
1t is in this light that we must in
terpret the following:
~ Publicity in official journals
and the capitalist press relative to
the organization campaign in the au-
tomobile industry. Elaborate plans
have been made, a series of confer
ences held and a complicated organ
national structure outlined for union
ling this industry with Detroit sell
ected as the first point of attack.
A staff of organizers has even
been sent to Detroit where, from
reports received recently, it seems
to be doing little more than trying
to obtain the consent of the bosses
for it's work thru meetings and lunch
cons with their representatives.
~ The pledge of support given by
President Green in the name of the
A, F. of l.. to the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street and Electric Rail
way Employees during the recent at
tempt of the New York traction
workers. to organize and smash the
company unions.
The innocuoEs tone Of this declara-
ton may be Judged by quotation
from an interview given by him to
the New York Evening Post.
Green said
"The marlborough Rapid Transit
deserves the condemnation of all
people who believe in the right of
collective bargaining. Peace cannot
prevail if the freedom Of contract
is not recognized The individual
contract of the marlborough is a
means of control thru coercion and
as such is resented by workmen
with independence in them"
Surely this stilted lawyers phrase
ology is not designed to fire the trac-
ton workers with a vivid sense of
their wrongs. The lack Of sincerity
of the declaration by Green, and the
absolute absence of any intention on
the part of the Amalgamated Off
Gals to allow a strike for organiza-
ton develop, was proven a few days
later when labor and city officials
combined to nip the movement before
it gained any considerable Roadway.
Injunctions.
(3) The TRADES delivered the year
round by prominent union officials
against the I. R. T. injunction, the
Bedford Cut Stone Company decision,
the injunction against the street car
man in Indianapolis etc
These fulminations always refer to
injunctions as "tyrannical" and "un-
American" but never by any chance
do these labor officials advocate or
ganized mass violation of these vi
cious measures or a labor party as a
means of combating and defeating
them.
These public statements have one
purpose only-that of distracting at
tention of workers from the fact these
vociferous officials never go to Jail
themselves for violations Of injunc-
tions.
They do not lead any decisive
struggles against the injunction men
ace which now threatens the very life
of the labor movement, federal in
functions against the United Mine
Workers in southern and eastern
Ohio, injunctions preventing foreign
born workers from picketing, etc.
but they are verbally militant know
ing that high-priced attorneys will do
what little fighting is done in the
courts.
peace" Negotiations.
4. The "peace negotiations" which
occur from time to time in the needle
trades also come under this head.
The extreme dissatisfaction in GER
tain sections of the labor which are