The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-29
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PLAN OFFERED
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Declares Class War;
Sees Rising Militancy

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and unemployment means competi-
ton with other countries running on
a similar base.
Wholesale Slaughter.
The program points to the de-
structiveness of the coming war, due
not only to the certainty that it will
be an even greater world war than
the last, but because of the start
ling improvement of the technique
of slaughter (poison gas, improved
planes, use of disease germs, etc..
The workers in the Soviet Union
face an imminent attack from the
capitalist states, including America,
the program states. The reason is
that the Soviet Union workers,
through their control of industry,
are making such strikes in progress
as has never before been seen in
history. The new five year plan is
described, and emphasis laid on the
continued improvement of the stand
ard of living and real wages in the
U. S. S. R., while these things fall
in every other country.
Why They Hate Russia,
Success of the Soviet plan means
the doom of capitalism, and the cap
italist rulers in America and West
ern Europe realize this and prepare
for bloody onslaught on the U. S.
S. R., the present acts in this direc-
ton having led to the Chinese East
ern Railroad incident in Manchuria.
Partly as war preparations, and
partly from the needs of the en-
ployers themselves, says the pro-
gram, tremendous growth of state
capitalism and fascism takes place
in all capitalist countries, including
Ameriea. With much detail, and by
specific instances, the mergers OF
American industry are described, and
the Assassination of American trade
unions of the A. F. of L. is pointed
out, as well as the flood of prop
uganda from the Tugwells and
others which accompanies it, and
justifies company unionism, welfare
schemes, etc.
I Exposes Reformists.
The role of the Music group Of
fake progressives, and of the social
ist party is explained, as the COW
ering shield for this Assassination.
In opposition to this drive by the
employers and imperialists is grow
ing, the draft program points out,
and gives details of the recent
strikes and the continued resistance
of the workers, particularly in the
South. Since the A. F. of L. has
based itself on highly skilled crafts,
and is in control of social fascists,
the real leadership ofSthe new mill
fancy must be by the Trade Union
Unity League, principally through
the new industrial unions, but with
out abandoning the struggle against
the misleaders in the reacti0nary
unions.
Militant Policies.
AS for the policies of the new
unions, the draft program states:
''The new unionism bases itself
upon the experience of the class
struggle. Its slogan is class
against class
Based On Unskilled.
'tThe new unions are based, pri-
marily upon the semi-skilled and
unskilled masses, and fight for the
interests of the working class as a
whole. These are the most exploited
and most militant sections of the
working class. The A. F. of L. pro-
gram of basing the labor movement
upon the skilled workers, policy
that was always wrong, is made
increasingly disastrous and futile by
the wholesale elimination of skill in
the industries through standardized
ton, specialization, mechanization,
and a thousand other devices and
efficiency systems.
Negroes, Women, Youth.
''The class struggle unions are
industrial in structure, with efficient
Observation-Disclosures for the various
industrial sections. and with special
national and local sections for the
youth and women. The new unions
organize all sections Of the workers:
Negro, women, youth, skilled and un-
skilled. The great consolidation OF
the forces of imperialist capitalism
makes industrial unionism impera-
tive"
The new unionism, the draft pro-
gram points out, leads through
class struggle to goal which is the
abolition of capitalism and the es-
tablishment of a workers state. In
America it realizes itself part of
an international struggle toward
this end, and shows it by affiliating
with the militant world organiza-
ton, the Red International of Labor
Unions, and with the Pan-Pacific
Federation of Trade Unions and the