The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26


of the textile workers in Passaic, the
Haverhill shoe strike, the battle of
the Colorado miners, the firm and
solid front of the needle trades work
ers in New York, the strike struggle
of the textile workers in New Bed
ford and Fall River, and the heroic
struggle of the Pennsylvania and
Ohio miners who have already main
tanned their fight against the whole
world for fourteen months, are the
first powerful signs of the defensive
struggle of the working class. Des-
pite all the sabotage of the mis-
leaders of labor, the vast masses of
unorganized workers are beginning
to organize themselves. The first
attempts to organize the automobile
workers have been made. The needle
trades workers and the textile work
ers are being organized into indepen-
dent unions. The mill committee
movement of the textile workers, the
shop chairmen movement of the
needle trades, and the Save-the-
Union movement of the miners are
the most promising signs of fight
ing future.
The Workers (Communist) Party
of America considers it as its duty
to mobilize the masses for a relent-
less struggle against all harmful eff
fects of capitalist naturalization.
The workers must understand that
naturalization in a capitalist society,
with the means of production in pri-
vate hands, can only intensity the
exploitation Of the workers. Ration
alization in the interests of the whole
of society can be carried out only in
Communist society in which the
means of production are the property
of the whole nation.
Demands.
L. Shorter hours of labor. A s.
day week. A minimum of SO con-
secutive hours rest in seven days.
2. Fight for high wages. Strike
against wage cuts.
8. Fight for the protection Of the
workers from the bad effects of cap
italist naturalization, of the tech
meal advances of mass production
Struggle against the speed-up sys-
tenn.
A. Organize the unorganized. The
American working class cannot sue
cessfhlly resist the power of the
trusts without building up a power
full organization of the workers in
the basic industries.
5. Destroy company unions. Abol-
ish the B. and 0. and Mitten plans.
Eradicate trade union capitalism.
6. Save the unions from the on
slaught of the bosses and the treach-
cry of the bureaucrats. Amalgama-
ton of craft unions into industrial
unions. characterization of the trade
unions. The present corrupt leader
ship must be driven out.
Z. Trade union methods alone
cannot wage a successful fight.
Trade union struggle must be sup
plemented by political struggle.
The Heroic Struggle of the Unions.
There has never been more he
roic struggle than the present strike
of the hundreds of thousands of
miners. They are fighting against
the whole capitalist world. They are
not only up against the coal opera
tors, who are in close alliance with
the big railroad companies and banks
and backed by the government, but
are also betrayed by their own
leaders.
There is deep-going crisis in the
mining industry. The industry is I'M
organized. Production is in a chaotic
state. Each of the 1000 coal COM
panies produces as much as it can.
There is a murderous competition for
markets. The mines are able to pro-
duce twice as much coal today as
industry and consumers can absorb.
The operators are closing down mine
after mine, creating heavy unemploy-
ment. At the same time, the new
labor-saving machinery is being in
troduced, aggravating the unemploy-
ment situation everywhere. The
miners are being forced to increase
their daily output by speed-up and
longer working hours, this making
themselves in growing numbers su-
perfluous. The operators say that
the industry is faced with the prob
lem: either it must get rid of its
superfluous coal or its superfluous
miners. They are driving out 100000
miners from the industry.
The government has exposed itself
frankly as the instrument of the
operators in the present struggle.
1t has modified everything against
the miners. Courts, injunctions, the
national guard, state constabulary,
judges and sheriffs are at the service
of the operators. Every miner must
now clearly see that the government
is but the organization of the bosses.
The operators themselves sit in the
government. The Secretary of the
| Treasury. Mellon, a member of Presi-