The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-21


of hard struggle The right wing bureaucracy of the
Unions the and mems cloth
ing trades being thoroughly corrupt has offered resistance
but has lent hand to the bosses their efforts to reduce the
and conditions of the workers. practically consentng to
rehabilitation of the Unions in the face of the attack
The attitude of the right wing union officials during the
cent strenuous in the needle trades attitude which
just reached its final theoretical expression the socialist
party convention with its elimination all the
struggle from its constitution faced the needle trades workers
with the choice between fight or destruction
the Furriers in the Amalgamaed Clothing Workers I'm
ion the International Ladies' Workers Union the
bureaucracy has fortified it's of organization by sy
tenn of rotten borough representation and by gangerue in
the locals Only in the teeth of the trade union bureauats
complete defiance of these of the BOSSES possible
the workers the needle trades maintain their Unions and
The file has spite of expuIsion
seous Bosses gangsterism and gunner against
membership The condition developed until the militant needle
trades workers have by tens of thousands been ouawed by the
International bureaucacies Where the buraucraces could
position broken by destruction of the Union Throughout the
needle trades generally IN the big the militant
workers have developed their leadership and maintain
ing their Unions and conducting the struggle against both
bosses and their trade union agents.
The rank file overwhelmingly opposed to the corrupt
international officials Militant local unions, representing
of the membership outawed by the International officers
is the typical needle trades condition of today
The enemies of the workers say he Communists
Similarly the members of the largest strongest and every
most important trade the American Federation
Labor the United Mine Workers Union witnessed Union
being destroyed Having lost forty of the union
ship having lost control of the major portion Union
territory with the Union facing the biggest operators offensive
in its history the Mine Workers forced fight
bureaucracy headed fight the
OPERATORS its fight was directed only against the mine workers
Today the biggest battles with the BOSSES the mine work
er lind Lewis whole machine busy skebreakng and find it
necessary to tight Lewis coal operator the coal
orators Hundreds of thousands unorganzed must
led into the struggle Expelled units of the organization
leo INTO the light reef must be organized pcketng carried
To lead the struggle the militant mine forced
to organize their own FORMS the SaveheUniOn committees
working the heads of the machine alliance between
Lewis and bosses is such an instrument.
The enemies of the workers look at the Union
mittees and say "the Communists in it,
the workers of the mills The imposed
the mill workers had been borne until the breaking point the
camel bound while straw upon until last was piled on
its back The unions no longer pretended to organize any
few hundred skilled workers. while the socaed unsed tex
tile slaves by tens of thousands left unorganzed
to remain while reactonary leaders of the
small skilled did all power to stretch the enduring
powers of the workers.
The only possible of breaking through was adopted by
the OF textile workers in New Bedford committees
were organized shop after shop network spread
the whole textile of New Bedford Taunton These mill
committees free from the dead weight bureaucracy and bosses
Influence unlike small aristocratic skilled unions have
stroke drawn the entire workers in the textile
mills into organized and militant ranks inspired by the needs of
unsd aided by the organizaona experience Of the
unionized skilled workers.
Here mill committees became the medium Mill committees
acting the organizing medium which makes struggle
for the protection of the workers possible the heads
Of the corrupt bureaucracy the workers
rnen rises
say 'the Communists in it."
Yes, the Communists are in it!
Inc nlHlan workers engaged these mighty
look the facts and yes the Communists are in if The
Communists are in the front line in all of struggles"
The workers will learn and understand great from the
fact that he Communists it," not an accident that
single struggle for the rights standards wages of the
workers has been fought during the past years. that has
cot been denounced "Communistic"
The United States is period in which no longer can
the Bureaucracy of Green Lewis Sigman nor of the $50
ca party appear before the workers other than
enemies defenders of the capitalist system opponents of the
daily demands Of the exploited masses
This is period in which the Workers (Communs Party
and leader Of their struggle The organization of the nor
gained workers necessarily places its heaviest burdens the
Workers (Communs Party Trade unions organized over the
heads of the eaconay bureaucracy recurring fact
of the immediate period and the militant will see that
It, In