The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-02

Inc AntlStflke Tlan~ Une Oh Tie FeucIduUnS uiVdcS'
Difficulties Is Control Of Its Own People"
The discussion in press follows the announcement
that the American Bar Association and the ofadom OF the
American Federation of Labor have agreed formula Tor
making arbitration between capitalists and workers
legal by giving them legislative standing and making them en-
foceab by the courts lead to but this
proposal nothing else than section of the British Trade Union
Act modified to suit capitalist requirements.
The proposal calls for nothing less than the
It extend the WasonParker rail
way bill all ndusrybut with the additional vicious
and enforceable by courts and police just as nnc now are
The experience of the labor movement with arbitration is
that workers always get the worst of it. There therefore no
reason for capitalists to evade the findings OF these Dooe ana
consequently follows that the phrase enforceable by the courts
applies only to workers and their organizations
their of enforcement the center
of the whole scheme the statement made by
Whitman president of the American Bar Asso
citation who appointed the which working
A. F. of L. committee and which reported in the New
York Times for February 1 follows:
plans, which of immature yet, so
far to be rounding into shape nicely.
81 have heard some objections nothing insurmounabe
as yet believe that the courts will object to the plan
which provides for the enforcement of the voluntary
by them :" (Our emphasis)
But purpose this anstrke proposal 1--WE shall
little later that something even than measure against
sres conformity with the of the British Trade
Union Act must be separated from the methods of enforcement
by sponsors and indicated Whmans statement
Essentially proposal pepetuy the
eaconay leadership the labor movementto put the
openly and effectively than behind the Green's
VOLS and Lewses and against the working and
unorganized.
ruling the danger to its agents in the growing
gap them the rank and file that the spirit
revolt which manifest in the ranks of the coal miners
the rise of movement in this and other basic in
duss that the labor agents of imperialism cannot stem without
assistance.
The New York Times quotes in the story in which
Whitnan views are given attorney wish his
mentioned at this stage of development OF the pan lie
said:
he only way in my opinion to make such agreements en-
the American Federation of Labor to insist that
upon members failure conform to such contract he must
longer member of the Federation The plan does not
the idea of outside force being used and should
give Federation better control its members One of the
Federaions greatest difficulties control of its people,
(Our emphasis.)
Nothing could be clearer than berayas
the official labor leadership have made their role bosses
agents plain hundreds of thousands of workers These eo
pe not be controlled effectively much longer AS matter
fact the coal mining industry the miners who
President Lewis Had the operators not
desired to smash the union completely decisive sections of the
industry they would have accepted the Lewis proposal for
rate district agreements with speedup provisions and Lewis him
would have tried break the strikes which would have broken
The official mseaders have not been able to crush the will
the workers fight This what meant by such statements
he Federatons greatest difficulty control OF its own
people"
this exhaust the sinister purposes of the formula
of the association Most important of all is its obvious
theoretical base-the theory that the movement
United Federation Labor today
and that after such militant mass unions as those of the
workers smashed reacoary
by the mantle of be allowed
handled servile but effective instruments of i'm
pera reaction allowed bear the title of the American Trade
Union Movement
Imperialism in its present period inevitably to give
legal that section of the labor movement which accepts
and carries out it's Instructions
The gazaon of reaction in the labor movement both to
policy tactics including expusions of workers who will not
submit inherent in the formula of the bar association
proposal
What of the IS to 80 per working
oganzed What of the millions of workers in basic industries
whom the A. F. of L. leaders have refused to organize?
formula would force them to acknowledge the yellow
contract join unions, to allow their lives lib
and living standards to be nodded by labor offcadom
whose Of this formula shows them painting to
and whip of imperialism's slave-drivers
This designed protection to the Wall Street
VOL Green and Lewis 1t has it's main
prevention of the rise of powerful labor movement.
intended to make the existing unions legal instruments
Znu atroua nnnent