The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
|. R. 7. WORKERS
FORM SHOP UNITS
Demand Company Take
Back Fired Men
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be not only false but actually insult
ing to the intelligence of the workers
who have first hand knowledge of
"Rule or Ruin" Hedley's double deal
ings.
The plan of the company now seems
Ito be to use the company union even
though it has been completely ex-
posed as mere tool of its own Gre
alton, in the furtherance of whatever
plans. it hopes to put across. The an
nouncement by Hedley that the Broth
erhood will not take back the dis
charged men is, of course, an obvious
camouflage. 1t is recalled that last
summer when the Interborough
agreed to take back workers dis
charged at that time, Quackenbush
announced piously: eve will forgive
them and we will ask the Brother
hood to forgive them"
Officials Stall.
Officials of the union, in the mean
time appear to have no policy to meet
the situation beyond the announced
hope that Mayor Walker will "do
something" So far there has been
no denial that Mayor Walker as well
as the whole Tammany Hall machine
is playing the game of the traction
companies by preventing the traction
workers from taking action.
Last July similar part was played
by Walker. The traction workers
were in favorable position to win
organization and increased wages
through strike. At the last mo-
ment, the union officials by intrust-
ing their cause to the mayor called
off the strike with the announcement
chat great victory" had been won.
They claimed to have secured the
right to organize. This was imme-
diately denied by the officials of the
marlborough. The present discharges
of the union men and the whole pres
ent situation may be said to be the
direct result of taking the fight from
the hands of the workers and placing
it into the hands of the mayor.
The DAILY WORKER has already
warned the thousands of traction
workers to whom it must speak frank
ly of the dangers of the present sit
uation. This warning must be re-
peated now more emphatically:
Fight Your Own Battle.
The whole history of the working
class has proved that the workers
must depend on their own efforts for
anything they will secure. Every
traction worker by looking back dur
ing the past ten or fifteen years will
be able to see for himself that all
defeats which have come to them have
been due to having entrusted their
cause to others than themselves.
The Tammany Hall city officials
are working together with the trac-
ton companies to put over a huge
'unification" scheme which will cost
the workers millions and a great fare
steal for which the workers will like
wise have to pay. The greatest mis-
take which the traction workers can
make at this time is to permit their
officials to fall in with the company
seven cent fare steal in the hope that
the company will as result grant
the workers an increase III pay.
Trust None of Them.
No matter what promises or ideals"
may have been made, the workers
must understand that neither the
traction companies nor Jimmie Walk
er will give them an increase in pay
of their own accord. The only way
they will get such an increase is by
for it and taking it from the
In this task the traction
workers will inevitably need the sup
port of the other workers in the city.
The traction workers must therefore
above all maintain the sympathy of
these other workers and in no way