The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-12


the employers"
Repeal of Watson Parker Law.
Whereas, the employers, if al
lowed to fasten upon the railroad
workers such an infamous piece of
legislation as the Watson Parker
Law, will not be slow to shaclle the
workers in other industries with sim
liar anti-labor legislation, therefore
be it
Resolved, that the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, assembled in its
47th annual convention, condemns the
Watson-Parker Law as detrimental
to the interests of the workers and
withdraws its endorsement from it;
calls upon the affiliated railroad
unions not to resort to the laws arbi-
tration provisions, but to insist upon
dealing directly with the railroad
companies; and herewith initiates a
movement looking towards the re-
peal of the Watson-Parker Law"
Unemployment
Resolved, that the following meas
lures be applied to combat the grow
ing unemployment:
81. The enforcement and introduce
ton of shorter working hours, with
the 8-hour day as a maximum and
wherever possible, the introduction of
the 5-day week.
%. In industries suffering from
considerable unemployment, equal
distribution of work to all the work
ers of the industry, instead of throw
ing large numbers of workers into the
streets.
SO. Pressure upon the federal.
state, and city governments in favor
of large appropriations for public
works, with wages and working con-
ditions to be based upon union stan
dards.
q. The initiation of a national
campaign for the establishment of
federal and state insurance against
unemployment"
Resolution on Mooney Billings Case.
Resolved, that the 47th annual
convention of the American Fedora
tion of Labor reiterates it's conviction
that Tom Mooney and Warren K.
Billings are the innocent victims of a
frame-up, and be it further
Resolved, that this convention in
regular assembly, herewith shall send
"a delegation to the Governor of Cali
fornia to once again state the posi-
ton of organized labor on this mat
ter and to demand the unconditional
release. of Tom Mooney and Warren
K. Billings from the penitentiaries of
California"
Organization of Negro Workers.
Resolved, that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, in 47th convention
assembled, declares emphatically in
favor of the organization of the
Negro workers into the organizations
having jurisdiction over their particu-
lar line of work, and to this end it
calls upon the labor movement gen
orally to put the following principles
into effect:
Il. To insist that Negro workers
receive the full social, political and
economic rights enjoyed by white
workers.
20. To remove all constitutional
barriers in the unions against the adj
mission of Negro workers.
SO. To initiate special campaigns
among Negro workers, employing
wherever necessary special Negro or
ganizers, to draw the Negroes into
the trade unions"
For Militant Trade Union Policy.
Resolved, that this convention of
the A. F. of L. specifically repudiates
the so-cailed Higher Strategy of
Labor" and all it's separate manifes-
tations, and declares that the trade
union movement must resolutely take
up policy of aggressive action
against the employing class for the
positive raising of real wages, short
ening of hours, and increasing the
relative power and economic stand
ing of the working class; this must
include well planned campaigns to or
ganize the unorganized workers, es-
pecially in the basic industries ANAL
gamation of the craft unions into in
dustrial unions; the breaking with
the capitalist parties and establish.
ment of labor party; an aggressive
struggle against American imperial