The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-28
How viii Green Fight and Against Whom?


pagn promote legislation against njuncons and against
''yellow dog" contracts
in the matters of njuncons, yeowdog
need of legislation fail to give serious attention to
the face of it. But read further What
will be done about the grave situation complained of?
First: Mr. William Green will be the principal speaker and
all that Green stands for in public life constitutes the real sub
Stance behind the Ho0 will Mr. Green proceed against In
unctons His record shows that Mr. Green's most fundamental
principle that of making the labor movement force support
ing the courts which issue injunctions.
How will Mr. Green oppose yelow-dog contracts? His most
fundamental principle includes the teaching that labor must
cooperate with the employers and must refrain from all ideas
and tendencies of struggle against the capitalist Glass;
and that labor must Gin act give the strike
Consistently with this Green policy under which
union agreement would have the character of yeowdog
tract and the themselves would sink the level
unions.
would seek Legislation against njunctions
ec Green's record in this respect shameful book
His platform the effect that the working class must not have
representatives of the working class legislative hall
His platform that the workers must support the political parties
the capitalist Glass; and that he Mr. Green shall pedde their
of the other of the two political parties of the CAPT
t class sheep sold to the beef trust According to the
present bureaucracy all poabor legislation must be obtained
from political representatives of the employing Glass; and must
have representatives, party, of their
How hen will the bureaucra who stand the PROSTATE
bodies of the trade unions obtain any of these objects which they
say they seek in the coming campaign?
They will not fight to obtain any of them
But there is another explanation of this gesture of the Green
bureaucracy There nothing new about inuncons yellow
dog contracts and lack of proabor legislation. What is
that there beginning the trade unions revolt against nunc
TONS yelowdog contracts and bankrupt political policy and
against the allies of the bosses who the head of the trade
Internationally Mr. himself heirs Sam
ue Gompers have not begun fight the capitalist
class They have merely found that the within the
trade unions for fighting the capitalist class and the individual
employers their labor eutenants grown degree
that it is necessary intensity struggle against
poyers but against the left eOng IN the trade umionS
Second points The 1928 election is coming and it is
for Green begin round what sheep he pedde
their support to the other both of the capitalist class
parties.
on eowdog contracts and for proabor legislation But the
announced Cooper Union meeting Green his cohorts
no
of leading the workers into such will make them still
helpless before nuncons yeowdog contracts and the
the workers in the reahrous bureaucracy and feels he
strengthen his hold with bluff fighting things
which the of workers begin to understand they fight
The publicity accompanying this of the open
meeting contains peculiar of esuitry the statement
that a disputes and political differences within the labor
ment being forgotten in the face of this
GER These words in Green's mouth only that po
cal differences between the working class and the capitalist
shall forgotten that
of capitalist politics and betray the working class
certainly does not that the bureaucracy will forget
political differences with those who take the working
including the of labor party against the capitalist
parties The political differences betceen Greer and the Uores
be forgotten long the contemplate agents
employers and traitors to the labor the Green's VOLS
Suvans Mahons and the rest of them of the
official machinery.
These traitors have intention fighting against nunc-
tons in the only effective possible which include whole
sale violations of the nuncton and utilizing the fury of the
who suffer under capitalist class tyranny organize
labor party against the capitalist parties.
The only force in the labor that successfully
fight against this sort of reachery the efwng the
guard of the movement the Workers (ommunis
Party that instead of uniting with the capitalists the expoters
of labor and their political parties takes the
labor party independently of and opposed to the old
parties and all their henchmen within and without the labor
government.
The first step to the solution of the plight in which the labor
movement finds itself is independent political through
labor party the organization of the unorganzd the amagama
ton OF the weak craft unions into powerful industrial unions and
defensive along the whole line against the employers
These results will not be achieved worked for by the
agents of the employers who just guilty their capitalist
masters Of the plight in which the labor
ebu in spite of these scoundr and swindrs and against
them
for the against and