The daily worker., 1929-10-19
T.U.U.L-, AND A,F.L.,
CLASH IN SOUTH
Must Lead Workers in
Revolutionary Fight
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the rising revolt of the workers
against their terrible condition and
the wide respond made by the tex
tile workers to the organizing cam
paigns of the National Textile
Workers Union and the Trade Union
and the Trade Union Unity League.
The million dollars that they are
going to raise is to help the en-
ployers to fight against any form
of militant organization whether it
be the Communist Party or the new
revolutionary unions, the question
of organizing the workers is Sc
condary to them depending on the
plans of the employers and whether
or not they are still abe to fool
the workers into accepting their
class collaboration schemes, their
craft and racial forms of organiza-
ton.
The TU.U.L. is also determined
to organize the southern workers,
it has no million dollar fund, and
nowhere to raise such an immense
sum, The N.T.W.U., The N.M.U.,
the Marine Workers League, The
National Railroads Industrial
League, affiliated to the T.U.U.L.
are making organized drives in
their respective indutiesrs with
marked success, local Trade Union
Unity Leagues are being formed,
a number of successful southern
conferences have been held and the
work of organization is being
pushed on a broader basis everyday.
In spite of the success Of their first
campaigns made in the south by the
T.U.U.L. which has brought thou
sands of workers under its leader
ship, millions of unorganized work
ers have yet to be won over and
organized into the new revolutionary
unions that make up the T.U.U.L.
The struggle toorganize the work
ers whether it be in the North or
the South will be met by the most
ruthless suppression, discrimination
and terror, because envolved in the
organization campaign is the strug-
gle against naturalization, mechan-
ization, speed up, ETC., which brings
the workers almost Immediately in
to conflict with the state, develop
ing a class understanding of the
struggle, a hatred of capitalist ex-
ploitation and the need for working
class solidarity. The A. F. of L.
cannot stop this development, this
is shown even in the strikes that
they have led recently in the South,
while they succeeded in betraying
the workers and breaking their
strikes, thousands of workers have
been disallusioned, they now see
clearly how they were duped, these
workers form a potential base for
the organizing of revolutionary
union.
The A. F. of L. born in period
of early capitalist development,
clinging to the old craft form OF
organization believing in the fin
ality of the capitalist system, satu-
rated with graft and corruption
ruled by a well paid bureaucracy
most of whom have personal inter
est in capitalist concerns, many of
them actual employers of labor, sup
ported by the socialist party, the
Music group and the most reaction
ary forces in the country with mil
lions of dollars at their disposal
after thirty years Of deliberately
ignoring the South, is now being
called upon to try an dput the
southern workers back to sleep, 6
state from which the workers have
just recently awakened from, only
to find that they have been stripped
of everything but their overalls!
The extent that the A. F. of l.
will be able to fool and betray the
workers in the South depends to 9
large extend upon the activities OF
the T.U.U.L. Here the two union
centers come into open clash. The
A. F. of l.. with it's class collabora-
tion scheme and the T.U.U.L. rev.
olutionary union center affiliated
with the R.I,L.U., supported by the
Communist Party and the most mill
tant class conscious elements Of the
working class, many of whom are
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