The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-18
TUUL BOARD SEES
crisis AS KEY
TO c A M P A|C N
Maps Plans of F g h t
All Along the Line
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cretize their demands and struggle
for full support of the unemployed
TT the expense of the employers and
state.
The T. U. U. L. organization
work, since the Cleveland Trade
Union Unity Convention held about
September l, came under sharp
scrutiny and occupied major por-
ton of the time of the committee
1t was evident from The report of
National Organizer Jack Johnston
that though much progress was
made, not enough was being done.
Weaknesses seem to lie largely in
insufficient cooperation and CO.
ordination of the various units of
the league, together with ten
dency on the part of the league
members in the various localities to
regard the tours of Foster, john
stone, the Labor Jurors and others
as primarily educational rather than
organization meetings.
More individual appeals at the
! meetings, in preparation of them,
and after them, to workers to actu
ally join the T. U. U. L., to pay dues,
to support its press, and organize
their fellow workers, was indicated
by the reports, and will be demanded
by the national executive board.
The T. U. U. L. is composed of
national industrial unions, such as
the National Miners Union, the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, etc., plus national industrial
leagues, and local general leagues.
There is provision for departments
devoted to women, youth, Negro
workers, etc., and there are national
industrial committees to lead and
energize the work in various indus
tries. All this machinery works too
loosely, and with not sufficient at
tention to the movement as whole,
as symbolized in the national center,
the T. U. U. L. itself, the board
found.
Unity Activities.
Steps were taken by organizing
| youth, women's, and other commit
| tees to centralize this work. More
over committees are to attend, di-
rectly representing the T. U. U. l..
national executive board, at all i'm
portant board meetings, and all con-
ventions of the national industrial
unions. Their purpose is to assist,
and guide in the general activities
of these subordinate bodies, and to
emphasize the class nature of the
whole movement. A committee was
elected to attend the national conven-
ton coming Nov. 2S, in Paterson, N.
j., of the National Textile Workers
Union. Other committees will at
tend conventions coming in the near
future, called by the National Miners
Union, the Independent Shoe Work
ers Union of Greater New York, the
Marine Workers League, which will
establish a national industrial union
in the marine transport industry,
and others.
Per Capita Payments.
| Much emphasis was laid on the
necessity for prompt payment of per
capita tax to the national center by
the various constituent bodies, as the
center is engaging in widespread or
ganization and publicity work, which
| builds the whole league, and all of
its parts. 1t was voted that here
after, the constituent bodies should
be chartered, and held responsible
for per capita payments, organiza-
ton work, regular reports and dues
, collections by the national center.
AS part of the general strengthen
ing of the campaign of organization,
it was voted to draw the national
unions and industrial leagues more
completely into the support and i'm
provement of the T. U. U. L. Of
ficial organ, Labor Unity. The heads
of all the national industrial unions
and of the departmental committees
will be added to the editorial staff
of Labor Unity, as associate editors.
Space will be given in their par
ticular fields in Labor Unity, for
which they will be responsible. A
beginning has already been made in
this work by granting a page each
to the N. T. w. and M. w. L.
This does not mean the liquidation
OF the union papers, but it means
that the weekly Labor Unity will
and must be regarded by the men,
bers of the various unions and de-
partments as their immediate source
OF news, and must be supported as
such. Labor Unity committees are
to be established in all the local
units Of the unions and leagues, and
the policy is to have the units sub
scribe in body for every one of
their members, and besides to take
bundle orders, paid for the units, for
shop distribution, etc.
Organizational Tours.
An organizational tour, at the
time of the district conventions of
the T. U. U. L., which take place
most of them during January, of a
special Labor Unity agent, to build
and activize these local Labor Unity
committees and bring the matter