The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-30
The Coming New Trade Union Center

than that-the ninth who formal fact belongs
to trade union has little nothing to do with the labor
in any real unless he is in the reyo
tonary industrial unions) His trade union in most
operates less openly and frankly agency for
collaboration with the Bosses The collaboration is between
the bosses and thin upper layer of the most skilled and
relatively highly paid workers against the great of
unorganized at times has the character of "bus
ness" between the bosses and the trade union officials aso
business men) for the effective exploitation of the
workers involved The American Federation Labor speaks
through the mouth of Matthew Woll William Green and
other officials invariably and solely favor of the interests
of the employing class and its institutions and against every
thing that slightly resembles for struggle
against the capitalist class No about it. They say
themselves in boasting tone.
Nor is it matter of words The Official" trade union
of the United States every day openly
functionng trikebreakng institution If is strike
the coal mining industry the Official machinery of the
United Mine Workers Union less at the disposal of the
mine operators than is the BaldwinFets Detective Agency,
and if the union is not called in for trikebreakng service
frequently the detective agency it only because of the
nexpedency of their using fake union where the
strike be broken organization prevented by the
of undsgused instruments At the present time the United
Textile Workers Union of the instruments for breaking
strikes and hating the of real union organization
and struggle in the Southern States The International
Ladies Garment Workers does the and the Amaga
mated Clothing Workers union" independent" union
is trying its best to Guido the A. F. of L. service to the
employers against the workers. the G. W. and the Anal
gamated operating solely the basis of arrangements
with the manufacturers for keeping the workers in check
And so on down the line
In short the small fraction of workers that are in the
A. F of L. and in the respectable unions organized
under the theory and the practice supporting the capitalist
class against the working class In this period of
ration and GENERALIZATION of capital accompanied by the
growth of State capitalism the efomist bureaucracy of the
trade unions tends to be welded into the machinery of the
capitalist class state The forced drive of capitalist ration
azaon finds the trade union bureaucracy working hard
and with bazen openness to put through the bosses system
of Naturalization the essential characteristic of which
not to make the labor process rational from the
standpoint of the human worker but to suck the last
of strength from the workers by automatic machine control
and intensificaton of the speed of labor
For generations has been commonplace that the Off
ca labor movement of the United States dsown and de-
the historical revolutionary mission of the working
cassthat of taking political power and Transforming the
wageslave system society of free But the spur
claim of the GompersGreen bureaucracy upon the sup
port of the workers has always been upon the practical
basis of defence of the immediate interests of the workers
in conditions ETC. But in the present period the F.
of bureaucracy does not and cannot defend single mme
date interest of the smallest sort of any significant
group OF the working class On the contrary 1t operates
every day open attack against every immediate interest
of the working class well as committing and
treason to the general and ultimate interests of
the working class This bureaucracy not only the most
propaganda for mperast against the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics and therefore for the world
wide catastrophe defeat of the working class and the de-
structon of the labor movement by mtaryfascst means
but it has become the peedup drsergeant of the
capitalists the who driven unbearabe
strain in the 'ratonazed" industrial plants.
1t is only inevitable that in this period the tendency is
for struggle of the workers to fall under and
genuine working class leadership The Trade Union Educa
ona League and in the center Of the front line the Com
munist Party bigger part each day the RADICAL
cation of the increases The great Trade Union Unity
Convention called by the T. u E. IT, opening tomorrow at
Cleveland inevitable takes up the role of the creation
national center of the trade unions of this country
opposed to the treacherous bureaucracy of the A. F. of L.
The Convention marks epoch 1t means the put
ting of the leadership of the workers economic struggles into
the hands of the workers and of the hands the agents
of the employers. 1t will base itself not upon small frac-
ton of highly skilled but upon the whole proetaran
industrial workers For the first time the organizing the
of workers and will be undertaken &'#''' Il
The leadership of the bureaucratic traitors over the
workers already organized the A. F. Of L. and other reac
onary unions will be fought against before The
work within the old unions will be systematzed under the
fighting center which directs the great struggle pull
the vast of unorganzed of class into single dis