The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-02
NE. CITIES NEED UNITED LABOR TICKET

typical method, by means of which
the manufacturers intimidate the
workers and force the reduction in
wages can be seen from the example
of workers in Ware, Mass. The pic
ture of the situation there can be
drawn best from the speech made by
the representative of the Arkwright
Club at the public hearing on the
bill proposing increase of hours for
working women. "Look at Ware,
Mass" he stated, "the industries
there are at a standstill and there
is practically no unemployment. Ware,
Mass, was fertile field before, for
an outside agitator Not only workers,
but the business men lend their ears
to this kind OF talk and now you
can see the results" This is the
brutal story as told by the represent
tative of the manufacturer. 1t is the
story of the manufacturers, using
their economic power in order to shut
down the industry, wreck the eco
nomic life of the city and to throw
hundreds of workers out of employ
ment. This story is repeated on a
small or larger scale in a number of
industrial establishments in the shoe,
textile and metal industries thru
out New England. Using the tempo
rary crisis in industry, and the re-
sultant unemployment, the manufac-
turer raise the scare of the shutdown
and moving of the mills and on the
basis of this receive subsidies from
the city administrations, reduction of
taxes and the cutting down of wages.
This is the story of the hundreds of
thousands of the workers of basic in
dustries of New England, at the utter
mercy of greedy manufacturers.
Ware, Mass, clearly indicates that
the manufacturers will not stop even
at the destruction of the economic life
of the entire city in order to gain
their aims. The barbaric cruelty in
achieving the lowering of the stand
ards of the labor movement is prac-
tically the same as the subiugation
by the imperialist powers of the col
onial and semi-colonial people. And
even as the battleships of imperial
ist powers she'll and pour a rain of
steel into the defenceless villages of
colonial peoples when they show the
slightest resistance, and level these
villages to the ground, so with the
same barbaric cruelty the imperial
lists at home do not stop before the
destruction of their own cities, even
if this is done thru economic pres
sure.
In every city there are number
of militant trade unionists and other
prominent leaders Of various labor
organizations, who should form them
selves Immediately into commit
tee for the purpose of calling labor
conference to consider the question
of labor ticket.
Conditions in New England are
ripe for independent political action
of the workers. The experiences of
past years clearly indicates the class
character of the existing political
party. Labor must and will answer
the increased attacks, by more act
i've participation in the political life
of the country. This political cam
paign, coupled with the intensive
drive of the organization of the I'M
organized, with the struggle for i'm
provement in the standard of living,
with the organization of the unem-
ployed, demanding relief from their
unbearable conditions, would tend to
strengthen and steel the labor move
ment and will be the only weapon by
means of which the labor movement
of New England will be able to beat
back the attack of the manufactur-
ers and to prevent the total degrade
ton of the labor movement in New
England.