The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-14

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ceedngs started by the marlborough Rapid Transit Company
against the American Federation of Labor as whole ana h
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric railway EN-
poyees particular to convince every worker tn@V ISSUE
is momentous onenvovng the existence OF the American ID
Dor movement.
The marlborough acting this directly for the entire
orop of traction capitalists and indirectly for American capital
lists as a class actually demanding that its company union De
declared the only legal organization for traction worket de
mands that the American labor movement be 0uta"eo anu Us
right unchaanged rule over workers It employs De
If this Injunction is granted every company union IN the
United States will the mailed mantle of the government
thrown around it.
important union United Mine Workers hemmed by federal
njunccns which srangng it, dares not retreat
inch the struggle which the marlborough has struck
the first blow
1t fight abdicate.
The Amagamated Association is violating already exist
ing injunction openly by holding meetings and urging tac
ton join its ranks Legal talent has been engaged to
contest the L r. T. injunction in the courts
But this enough Side by side with these formal de-
frances the traction goes policy of poyannalsm which
carried much farther will be fatal to the wagng OF successful
struggle.
First there assumption the part Of officialdom
which put forward at its meetings and its published state
men Tammany Hall and its leaders the side OF the
and against the traction barons No more futile and TOOL
and could have been made than the acceptance
genuine of the published newspaper reports OF OF the
Quackenbush conference of last July
It is clear that Walker Unanswered all strike action
stopped without being able willing to force the R. T. to agree
10 anything The announcement by officials that the call
decentralization suspicion the traction workers and
actually aided the traction barons.
The state and city governments will not raise finger to aid
the organization Of the traction workers but they WILL they
have the last few days. mobilize the police to aid the
traction barons the strike seems possible.
Second assumption the part of union offcadom that
the workers be organized without great struggle
against the traction barons and their that by
the company union will disappear and real
union take its place. dangerous deuson at best and outright
deception of the traction workers at the worst.
Organization work will have TO be conducted with the idea
in mind that traction workers have to prepare to strike to
ing conditions If organization work carried only in the
formal the traction barons have nothing to fear
The Amagamated Association will have adopt fighting
program immediately if to be the instrument for freeing the
traction workers from the slavery of unonism
No but fool deliberately trying disguise
the real issues of the present struggle will that the
traction demand and obtain 100 support
from the city hall and the house struggle where the
issue the clear Of the interests of workers the
interests Of big capitalists.
Support the traction workers will
and file of the labor m0vemenrom the organizations of the
working class. Only enmit, disguised will from
the various branches Of government.
This the traction workers be told and upon this
be based the whole policy the present struggle against
ncons against company unions and for the right of the
labor movement exist and act instrument of the work.
ing class.
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