The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-20
TUUL BOARD TO
PLAN BIG FIGHTS
Struggle Coming Soon
in Many Industries

depend upon the Trade Union Unity
League and the National Miners
Union, member of the T.U.U.L.
The Belleville convention of the
N.M.U. in Illinois voted also to
carry the fight into the South, first
into Kentucky, where thousands of
unorganized miners remember their
betrayal in the 1922 strike by the
Lewis machine. A national conven-
ton on a broad base, a real mass
movement, will be arranged soon by
the National Miners Union.
Steel Workers Jobless.
The steel industry is found to be
one of those most requiring organ
ization. Speed-up and unemploy-
ment are rife, and wage cuts are on
the calendar. The T.U.U.L. metal
trades committee has headquarters
in Pittsburgh, where Andrew Over
gard is stationed as its head and
is very active, meeting also with
good response from the steel work.
ers.
The automobile industry is in a
similar condition to the steel, except
that wage cuts, unemployment, and
general slowing down of production
has advanced further. There are
thousands of unemployed auto work.
ers, and the employers themselves
take gloomy view of the prospects
in autos. The American "saturation
point" was reached long ago, and the
industry has been running for some
time on it's exports. Now it meets
competition abroad.
The needle trades industry will be
discussed in detail. The needle
trades right wing organization, the
combination of socialist misleaders,
company unionism, the bosses and
the Tammany government in New
York has proceeded to a point in
advance of similar tendencies in
other industries. There exists a
machine for labor treason and SELL
out, for terrorism against militant
unionists. The misleaders are en-
gaging in complicated strike man.
euver, and the tactics of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union, q
member of the T. U. UU. L., will be
carefully considered.
Militant Food Workers.
In the food industry, organi4ati N
work must be pushed. The conven-
ton of the Amalgamated Food
Workers is near. The food workers
militancy is shown by the recent
cafeteria strike, and this is not the
only section where workers are dis
satisfied with restaurant conditions,
wages, and hours.
Movement among building trades
workers is evident. The building
boom is booming along the down.
ward trail now, and the A. F. of L..
union heads have made no provision
for this collapse, nor for the unem-
ployment, smashing of union condi-
tions and wage rates, that has al
ready begun, and will get worse.
Many other industries show SIM
liar signs of retrenehment, in each
case the employers making special
efforts to lay all the burdens on the
workers, and the workers beginning
to resist strenuously. I'm an ar
ticle yesterday some facts were
given about the textile, and tobacco
industries.--Editor.)
Youth, Women, Negroes.
The TUUL makes special provi-
sion for the most exploited sections
of the American working class in
it's organization campaigns. Many
Of the unions and leagues have spe-
cial youth sections. A Young
Workers Department has been estab-
lished, and a national committee to
lead it's activities is being created.
1t will have on it representatives of
the Negro and girl workers.
The Negro committee will pay
special attention to maintaining gen
eral 7. u. U. L. Negro organizers
in the field. The southern Negroes
are not only being driven to the
northern industrial centers now, they
are being drawn in increasing num-
bers into the industrialized sections
of the South.
Women play an increasing role in
the workshops and factories. The
|TUUL Women's Committee works
out specialized activity among them,
for organization, abolition Of dis
elimination against women workers,
and certain special demands of
more immediate Importance to won
en- workers than to men.