The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-06

open support of the A F. of L. leadership. Witness
Matthew VOLTS activities in New York and as act
ing president of the Civic Federation.
The workers in the big industries are over ripe
for organization. This has been shown by the ac-
tivities of the small number of groups inside the
big industries that have been formed thus far. The
outstanding examples are the groups in the Detroit
automobile plants, which after few months work
publish plant papers with total circulation of
$4,000 Amongst these workers, who are the most
exploited by the overords and autocrats of industry
is the real volcano of proetarian discomfort and
struggle that has not been even tapped yet by
activity.
But the group activities inside the plants as stra-
tegic and important it is only bring the de-
sired results if a broad political movement be
developed that will bring this tremendous proetaran
industrial army striving for better conditions and
organization into broad political stream to restore
the rights to organise strike and picket and to
store civil liberties Many sections of the petit
bourgeoisie, particularly the farmers, could be
brought into united front on such issues. In many
of the typical industrial farms of the U. S. there
no labor unions and those that are, in many in
stances dominated by the stool pigeons and agents
of the bosses, will not go into political movement
against the old parties and towards Labor Party.
Yet it is quite clear that the political oppression of
labor has made the situation quite ripe for political
expression and political organization, based the
present conditions of the workers economic political
and theological In many instances political organi-
organization and open agitation than direct
attack on the economic bastiles of the trusts and
offers opportunities to draw the nelligensa of all
the various categores of labor petty bourgeois etc.
into the struggle and leadership against the ever
increasing oppression of imperiast capitalism.
There must be political protection in order to en-
able labor to organize and prevent its organizations
once established from being crushed by the police
club of capital. The work in the factories must be
protected, supplemented and encrcled by whole
series of supporting and complimentary organiza-
tons of which the political is the most important,
also cooperatves, fraternal and sport organizations
that under the iron heel of imperialis capital
ism still operate with relative freedom In the
establishment of such organizations and in support
of great task amongst the unorganized the work
and experience of the left wing in the existing la
Dor unions inside and outside the A. F. of L, will be
of great aid Any effective work amongst the I'M
organized is to still the imagination Of labor
This was demonstrated in striking form in the Pas
sale struggle, which was supported by hundreds of
A. F. of L. locals despite the denunciation of Green
Vol and Company. Effective work amongst the
unorganiZed is the key to the American labor move
ment the road to the defeat of reaction in the labor
movement and the road to the victory of the Amer
lean workingclass Let all miltants get ready for
this the greatest Of our tasks.