The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-14

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that this industrial movement shall provide for W. %
man and woman that works decent livelihood Is FW
that something worth working for? IN ~
Now understand me-or rather. do not mis- ~ 2@
understand do not that this organization C.~@IyM
is going to improve the condition of purely the skilled W
workers but mean we are going to get at the mass
OF the workers and bring them up to decent plane of living do not
of finger whether skilled
industrial at the time When the
and the unsed aboer into this organization the skilled worker will
OF necessity here for his protection AS strange
seem to the skilled worker today exploiting the labor beneath
him the unskled man. Just much the capitalist is.
ITO make myself better understood the skilled has
He has thrown high walls ror
joining the organization He exacs that man to become member
his skill What for? For the the
who is trying same union The skilled
mechanic by means of the and simple exploiting
There unions in this that fee some
of them as high as five hundred dollars There the glass blowers
dollar or dollar and quarter day and providing family
unskled laborer continually going down and thu
skilled mechanic through his union has been able hold
reasonably decent living but the lab working
1oe dollar or dollar and quarter day has been
Nov don't get discouraged folks working class
you never could have lost those been organized in
ussray as the workers in Russia organized
organization that takes working in al
INDUSTRY For instance in the packing plants organza
strong They were well Disciplined which by the fact tha
Mnen they were called on strike they quit is tn
inc men who were running the ice plants They tn
employers a which 4ha union They had with e
ers union practically totally disrupted entirely wiped out
A presumng that every the packing houses from
ne printer to the ster belonged union; that when th
% s on strike h the fremen and who plant
% Rapidly perish don't you believe those packing
Don't you believe that today organized workers in this pea
bt @ mot go on strike but would home for days
union man no better than another man. and av union MAJ
scab on his fellow un @ h an agreement with HIM
my opinion he is a b." - ~ ' Du' u
DeLEoNs opening speech had to me- been flat and innon+,
% as the convention progressed he get into the swim
Oh the work He elected Constitution Committee as n
stue Tor delegate who Immediately after ado
men, ne Delivered an excellent speech Minneapolis the Preamb
IR up e work Of organization at Grand Contra
were Of [ was gotten out as pamphlet These speeche
- Sam Gompers in issue of the Fedeaos had m
TO behttle the first o
ton the great compliment initiating some of its plans that
W "' u astonishing departments in the A. F. of L.
N our way back Denver talked work that had bee
done and the officials who had expressed NV cor
aence in the earnness and ability Trauann the secretary
that Sherman ne new Wgazaon Meyer and the other boys though
president was responsible and generally spcaI
l; was no msgivlng IN my mind at that time of the
soy OF mlsnangement other kind arising With
were still with felt that the Industrial Of the Wor
Hundreds of Cripple Creek miners the new gold cam
ona he, n where strong unions had been organized GO
was dragging itself out with nothing definite the
THAT fall there was Mountain and Plains Festival Denver
which one Of the features broncho busting
cowboys headquarters Of the Federation an
suggested that their and be improved the
, organized. l 1
ut to fellows chances riding in Thea
contests For this dangerous least fifty do
lars day. and much higher than
bronchos the ranch" ~
AS the result of meeting the Bronho
Riders Union OF the LWW. organized Harry
champion rider elected president secretary Wa
for riding contests fixed fifty dollars fifty
lars month for broncho busting riding the ranch The
asked to act secretary until they better organized
Minor had address. was cowb
bucking broncho which branded hip BBRR O.
out letter heads and envelopes with the
boy throwing aying ount
up in ten days return to The union did
very long, and had but little time to devote TO it
In the nert insamen Hayscood wres Of his discovery that oy
playing his the
enbg of Idaho; Pinkern makes kdnopp
Of Haywood Meyer Pebone aVhic Of
aoh protest 1906 Readers should
ting Hoycoods book free IN bound vo sending yearly
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