The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-06
CITLOW REPLIES
TO VIM. Green
Takes Up Challenge
of Labor Takers

Continued from Page One
Party confirms the reports of the
agents of William Green that the
Communists are actively engaged
helping the textile workers of New
Bedford fight the wage-cutting Of
fensive of the textile barons as they
helped the coal miners defend their
standards of living against the at
tacks of the coal barons headed by
Andrew Mellon, with whom John L.
Lewis, the wrecker of the United
Mine Workers of America, is asso-
ciated in the republican party.
"The Workers (Communist)
Party considers it one of its main
tasks to help organize the morgan
lied workers, who are left without
help or guidance by the A. F. of L.
tureaucrats, and to reorganize the
existing unions that are being
steadily weakened by the treachery
of Green and his associates. The
Communists in the trade unions are
always to be found fighting with
and for the workers for a better
standard of living and in defense
of better working conditions, while
the ten and e-thousand-do
a-year labor leaders are hobnobbing
with the bosses, in politics and bust
ness, and leaving the workers to the
mercy of the employers.
New Miners Union.
1.-THE once-powerful United Mine
Workers of America, of which
President Green was formerly sec
retary-treasurer, is now destroyed
and the rank and file under the lead
crship Of progressive fighters are
building a new miners union that
will carry on the fighting tradition
Of the men and women who risked
and lost their lives to organize that
mighty body of coal diggers which
which was for decades the. back
bone of the American trade union
movement.
"John L. Lewis, who drew $4,000
in salary and expenses in one year,
while the striking soft coal miners
and their dependents were living
on few cents a day, has effec-
lively performed the job of destroy
ing the U. NJ. w. of A. He is sup
porting the republican party in the
elections-the party of Teapot
Dome, A. B. Fall, Injunction Daugh-
erty and Strikebreaker Coolidge.
The rank and file of the miners are
now determined to get rid of Lewis
and his gang and organize under
the leadership of men who believe
that the way to win strikes is to
fight and not to beg for favors
from the capitalist politicians.
Communists Not at Atlantic City.
while $4,000 textile workers are
holding the line against a ten per
cent wage-cut in New Bedford and
hundreds of them, including. Com
munists, are being dubbed, ar
rested and Jailed, Green and his
companions are enjoying the cool
breezes at Atlantic City and from
their comfortable hotel quarters in
citing the police and militia of
Massachusetts, to more vigorous
strikebreaking policy.
"The central executive commit
tee of the Workers (Communist)
Party believes that the time is ripe
for the exploited and betrayed
members of the American Fedora
ton of Labor to prepare the skids
for William Green and his Wall
Street lackeys on the executive
councils and elsewhere. The dec
laration of war against the Com
munists will be met by the militant
rank and file with counter-offen-
sive to clean the unions of the re-
dictionary officials, who have moth
ing in common with the workers
end are living in luxury on salaries
and expense accounts that bankers
might well envy.
Red Election Campaign.
"The Workers (Communist) |
Party in the election campaign will
carry the Communist message into
every state in the Union and will
expose the corrupt leaders of the
A. F. of l.. as the tools of the en-
ployers in the trade unions and the
agents of American Imperialism,
who are preparing to lead the
masses into the next imperialist
war as they led them into the last.
"Had the leaders Of the American
Federation of Labor shown as much
energy in fighting against injunc-
tons, against wage-cuts, against
the open-shor dri';e, against COM
pany unions, and for the organiza- !