The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-04

must be formed as the units of the
local Trade Union Unity Leagues
on Solid basis, functioning, dues
paying basis. 1t was clear from the
discussion that the worker delegates
in reality personified the growing
resistance of the masses to capital
ist naturalization with its wage
cuts, frightening of hours, speed-up
and resultant unemployment.
Throughout the course OF the
afternoon of Sept. 1, delegates from
basic industries, miners, marine and
transport workers, building, food,
printing, metal, automobile, rubber,
oil, shoe and textile workers, Negro
and white, young and old, women
and men, Joined in hailing the birth
Of the new trade union center, de-
manded affiliation with the Red In
ternatiOnal of Labor Unions, called
for defeat Of capitalist ratiOnaliza-
ton aud militantly urged defense of
the Soviet Union.
.. Eager To Hear.
Spirit ran high. Although the
session lasted over six hours. the
hall remained jammed and the last
speaker, John kan4p of the Brother
hood of Locomotive, Firemen and
Engineers received as thunderous an
ovation as any along the line.
Ramp is the chairman of the Rail
TO a d Amalgamation Committee
which is fighting TO bring all rail-
road workers into one industrial
union. He pointed out the futil;ty
of craft unionism, stressing the folly
of the strike of 1922 when seven
unions scabbed on the nine striking
unions.
Pointing out the danger of war
now facing the workers OF the
world, war which is even now be-
ing waged by the imperialist powers
against the only workers govern
ment in the world, the Soviet Re-
public, H. M. Wicks declared, "The
Trade Union Unity League must
meet the war danger and one way
is by campaign in the war indus
tries. We must make clear to the
workers in these industries the ma
ture of these industries. We must
go frankly before the workers of
the war industries, and instead of
concealing the war nature, as some
Ileft-wing forces have done IN the
past, we must explain it. Steel,
motors, fuel, chemicals and trans
port-we must be able through. these
industries to strike a blow at the
given moment that will cripple the
war machine.
Anti-Imperialist Work.
"The Trade Union Unity League"
William Simons, secretary of ALI
America Anti-Imperialist League, de-
clared, Should be an important fac
tor in the Anti-Imperialist League,
and at this convention should affili-
ate and call upon the organizations
you represent to do likewise. The
colonial trade union movements are
carrying on an anti-imperialist
struggle. So are we in the impe-
rialist countries. Bue we must link
up our movements"
The workers in an imperialist
country especially must militantly
support the struggles of the colonies
under the heel of imperialism,
Simons stressed, and the American
worker must extend his hand in SOL
idarity to the colonial and semi
colonial peoples of Latin America,
China, India, and the rest of the
oppressed peoples. \
Negro and White Union.
The imperative necessity of bring
ing about unity between the Negro
and white workers, especially of the
South, was stressed in Otto Halls
report. eve must not only say that
we are willing to take in Negroes"
Hall said, "but we must go out and
organize the Negroes into all of the
unions the Trade Union Unity
League will have affiliated with it."
Hall urged the appointment of full
time Negro organizers in the exist
ing miners, textile and needle trades
union as immediate tasks.
Women Come Forward.
Ora Boyce. Negro leader of the
women's auxiliaries of the National
Miners Union and wife of its vice.
president, demanded that women
come forward in the struggle, form
powerful auxiliaries, fight on the
picket line, to aid in the relief work,
and help their men folk build mill
tant mass union. "This is our job
in the mine fields" she said, "but
YOU women who work in industries
must play leading part in the
unions.
"Many of the women hinder men"
sh said ".They come up with ham
mers wrapped in rags-with talk
about morals, religion and public
opinion. None of these ever got the
workers anywhere"
The church ard fraternal organ
izations that condeseendingly admit
Negroes, she pointed out, mean moth
ing. "Trust only the organization
built on class lines. When that
Negro down South got down on his
knees to pray, it didn't keep the
mob of church-goers from building