The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-03
pailu - Worker
Central Organ of the Communist Party of the u S. A.
Why Will the New Trade Union Center
Succeed?
History is being made in Cleveland.

History Is being made IN Cleveland
Not for many decades has there been event within
the American trade union of Importance equal
to the big Unity Convention All eyes on Cleveland! All
hands ready hep For the real work begins when the
convention ends The 700 delegates the
organized workers of this country hundred times more
truly than any American Federation of Labor Convention
represented the organized workers in at least genera
tonao represent something vastly than the workers
now organized Conventions of the American Federation OF
Labor representnot the workers under its but the
machine of trade union bureaucracy This convention at
Cleveland represents tadeunon bureaucracy but work
in industry.
Manv of the delegates come from shops mills and fac
tories in basic industries where organization is yet
known and they hammering into shape program that
will mean the organization decisive sections of indus
trial workers of this country for the first time in history
Their program cass against class furthermore means
the bringing of these decisive sections into actual struggle
not into caechute to be traded to the bosses by
corrupt tradeunon bureaucra is the case with the
A. F. of L.
Already one can hear the voices of such sychophants
as the of the socialist party and the Music group who
think o rather hop) that the launching OF the new trade
union center cannot succeed the that the
center adopts the policy for the reason that
it organizes new industrial unions for the that
fights the bureaucracy of the A F. of L. within the old
unions for the that takes sraightout revou
tonary attitude toward the mpeast war plans and opera
lions of the United States for the reason that tearess
runs counter trade union traditions in throwing down
the bars in reality mot merely in formal words) that sep
the Negro workers from the white workers. for the
reason that violates the precedent of the F. of L. in
industrial workers and upon selected and segregated
few of the highly skilled and, most important of all
because casts off the cowardy slave psychology of nation
aism and proudly aiates with the Red International of
Labor Unions.
Will these be reasons for stunted growth of the
trade union center?
Absolutely the contrary!
Cowardce and slave psychology have never won battle
and every sign of the times shows that precisely because the
delegates Cleveland have the courage and intelligence to
cast off the chains that capitalist class theology long
loaded upon the F. of precisely because they ready
to strike the great job of organizing the enormous
workers who unorganzed precisely because they
fight the agents the bourgeoe the ranks of the trade
unions and all precisely because they willing to
throw aside national provncasm and to affiliate their
movement with the international revolutionary trade union
Snovemen-he work they doing there in Cleveland will
live.
Has the A. F. of L. Succeeded?
In what has it succeeded? In organizing the workers?
No. Only the extent of about onennh In winning strug
giles? 1t is to augh-or weep In training the working
class to class consciousness for ultimate battles? y
The A. F. of L. has succeeded" only in debauching the
working class in the interests of the capitalist class Today
~ Succeeds only in breaking strikes and in feeding fa
boys of the bureaucracy while the standard of living of the
masses of workers goes down.
The new Trade Union Unity League will succeed be-
cause it is the workers federation of abornot the bosses