The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-18
SHOP And union
DELEGATES MEET
AT IRVING PLAZA
Will Coordinate All
Forces for Militant
Organization
Veterans of Class War
Pave Way to Cleveland
Congress June l

Practically every basic branch OF
Metropolitan Area Trade Union
Educational League Conference,
which opens today at Irving Plaza,
18th Street and Irving Place, at 2
p. m.
This conference will pave the way
for the Cleveland Trade Union Unity
Convention of June 1-2, and will also
do on local scale what the Cleve-
land convention will do on a national
scale. 1t will create here a center
for militant trade unions, for the
fighting textile and needle trades
workers, for the shoe and food work
ers, and all the other centers of the
workers. revolt against inhuman
conditions. 1t will also coordinate
the activities of the left wing groups
in building trades unions, and other
reactionary unions under the grip of
reactionary machines of the Broach
type.
The Metropolitan Area Confer
ence will, like the Cleveland Con-
vention which follows it, pay atten-
ton to the approaching war danger
and rally the workers against it.
AF.L. War Mongers.
While the ALL. assists in launch
ing war ships and cooperates in
citizens military training camps, the
new center established at Irving
Plaza today and tomorrow will turn
its face resolutely against such
schemes to use the workers for can
non fodder, and will muster all pos
sible defense for the Union of So
cialist Soviet Republics, against
which conspiracy exists in every
capitalist country to attack and
destroy it.
Know the Struggle.
The workers of the great metro
politan area around New York have
had experiences which make them
fully capable of seeing through the
schemes of capitalists and A. F. of
l.. agents of the employers. The
call for the conference is issued by
the Trade Union Educational League
local in New York and signed by
the secretaries and organizers of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, Millinery Hand Work
ers' Union Local As, National Textile
Workers Union, Marine Workers
League, Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe
terra Workers Union, Bakers
Union Local 164, Retail Grocery,
Fruit and Dairy Clerks Union, In
dependent Shoe Workers Union, and
all the sections of the T.U.E.L. or
ganized in New York.
T.U.E.L. Leads Fight.
Workers in these unions declare:
I'VE have seen the A. F. Of L.
acting as the agent of the bosses
in whole series of strikes. The
furriers, cloakmakers, dressmakers,
window cleaners, paper box work
ers shoe workers, cap and millinery
workers, traction workers, butchers,
grocery clerks, painters, oil work
ers, rubber workers, copper work
ers, silk workers, knit goods work
ers, plumbers helpers. In fact in
every struggle of the organized and
unorganized workers against the
bosses, the A. F. of L. bureaucrats
and the traitorous socialists, to-
gether with the Music group, have
united with the police, the gang
sters of the underworld and the
bosses to betray and defeat the
workers and to prevent them from
organizing into unions based upon
the class struggle.
I'm all these struggles the left
wing under the guidance of the T.
U. E. l.. has been the stalwart lead
err of the workers registering VIC
tories against the bosses, defeating
the holy alliance of the labor takers,
social reformists and police terror
ism of the bosses.
Their Own Unions.
"These workers in Ihe unorgan-
lied industries must have their own
trade union organizations based
upon the shop delegate and the shop
committee system, controlled by the
masses, which can be made per-
manent instruments of struggle"
The A. F. of L. policy, shown re-
Gently by the painters union in
Newark of excluding Negroes, will
find no favor at this conference. A
special drive to organize the most
exploited workers, the Negroes,
women, and youth, will be planned.
The local office of the T. U. E. l..
reports that there will be delega-
tions from almost every important
industry in New York and vicinity.
to prepare for the epoch-making