The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-17
Communists Bid S.P
Join In Milwaukee
Labor Election Front

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. 16.-A
proposal for joint action of all labor
organizations in the municipal cleo
lions of 1928 in this city has been
addressed by the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party, sub-district of Milwaukee,
to the Milwaukee County Central
Committee of the socialist party.
That labor in this city could reg
ister a considerable gain of political
influence if united in the coming cam
paign is the belief expressed by the
Communists, whose letter reads:
December 2, 1927.
Milwaukee County Central Commit
tee,
Socialist Party,
Brisbane, Hall,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Municipal elections will take place
in the spring of 1928. We have care
fully considered the situation and have
come to the following conclusions:
81. The continuing depression in
industry is carrying in it's wake unem-
ployment, wage cuts, and a still fur
Their intensification of the speed-up
system now predominating in indus
try. Already warning was given by
the Iron and Steel Institute of pos
sible wage cuts in the steel industry.
The coal miners of Pennsylvania and
Colorado are still engaged in a bit
ter struggle against attempts by the
coal barons to cut their wages while
the temporary truce in the coal fields
of Illinois, Iowa and Indiana is likely
to terminate in a renewed bitter strug-
gle.
despite the tremendous profits
accrued by the gigantic industrial cor
porations-the steel trust, the coal
barons, the oil trust, etc, the greedy
exploiters are determined to throw the
whole weight of the losses from the
rapidly growing depression upon the
shoulders of the workers. This will
lead to sharpening of the struggles
of the hard pressed workers against
their exploiters.
"2. simultaneously with the at
tack upon the living and working con-
ditions of the workers a political re-
action is rapidly sweeping the coun-
try.
"The execution of Sacco and Van
zetti was the most outstanding mani
festation of the ruthlessness and bru-
tality of the capitalist democracy in
our country. The ruling class was de-
termined through the execution of
Sacco and Vanzetti-two innocent
workers - to serve notice upon all
workers of America: You will face
similar fate, were you to resist our
will and attempt fight against the
conditions which we are going to inn
pose upon you!
"At no time in the history of the
American labor movement was the
use of injunctions as frequent nor as
sweeping as today. In all of the
struggles the armed forces of the
state were always on the side f the
exploiters and against the workers.
One need not be prophet in order
to be able to predict that the armed
forces of the state will be used even
more extensively against the workers
as the class struggle will sharpen be-
cause of the developing depression.
"3. In our own city the conditions
of the workers are very poor. The
wages are low. The hours are long.
There is a great deal of unemploy-
ment. The workers through fear of
losing their employment are speeded
up to a point where at the end of
the workday all of their vitality is
exhausted.
"The workers of our city work
mostly under the open shop condi-
lions. Milwaukee has become an open
shop heaven for the exploiters. The
unions are few in numbers and weak.
The lack Of proper organization will
render the workers completely help
less in the face of the inevitable at
tempt of the exploiters to cut the
wages during the period of depres-
sion.
"The big corporations of Milwau-
kee-the Allis Chalmers Co., the In
ternational Harvester Co., the pack
ing houses, the Nash Motor Co., the
Bucyrus Co., the Traction Co., are
debating to their workers their own
terms. The workers in these estab-
lishments, completely unorganized, do
not dare to offer resistance and arc
compelled to accept the dictation of
the big corporations.
"The big corporations through their
agents in the Legislative and admin
istrative bodies Of the city and the