The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
BY ALBERT WEISBORD.

The fifth article of this series
by Albert Weisbord, representa-
tive of the United States Trade
Union Educational League to the
Mexican Unity Congress of Work
ers and Peasants published yester-
day and the previous day, dealt
with the organizations represent
ed, the business transacted, rela-
tons with the Trade Union Edu-
cational League, and the achieve
ments of the congress. Today we
publish the first half of the
speech of Weisbord before the
congress on Jan. 26, 1929.
Comrades, the fact that the fra
ternal delegate from America can
not speak Spanish shows eloquently
how isolated have been the revolu-
tionary trade union movements in
the United States and in Mexico
from each other. This isolation be-
tween the two revolutionary move
ments has cost both of them very
dear. Today the closest unity be-
tween the revolutionary trade union
movements in the United States and
in Mexico and Latin America gen.
orally, has become of the greatest
necessity.
While we have delayed our unity,
based on the class struggle, Yankee
imperialism has increased its OPP
preston of the toiling masses both
in the United States and in Mexico.
Emerging from the last war enorm-
ously powerful, the American bosses
and bankers have become the
strongest in the world. At home
American capitalism has driven the
great mass of workers down more
than ever. Repeated wage cuts,
Heightened hours, most inhuman
speed-up-a speed-up that saps The
very life blood of the worker, and
leaves him exhausted-a huge army
of 100000 workers out of work,
these are the conditions facing the
masses in America.
Hand in hand with this has gone
an increasing fascination of govern
ment. A huge force of police and
government officials has been Gre
ated ready to throw itself against
the working class. Today the strike
breaking injunction, the murderous
tactics of soldiers and police, the
falling of many hundreds OF work
ers, have become every day occur
rences when workers strike for bet
ter conditions. Indeed, the very
right Of the workers to strike is be-
ing practically taken away. And
with the right to strike goes the
right to organize.
The growth of American capital
ism is meaning the smash.up of
the trade union movement in Amer
lea. The basic mass trade unions
have been and are being destroyed
Never before has the control Of the
government of the United States, by
the bankers and big business men,
been so open and brazen as today
The victory of millionaire Herbert
Hoover means that the sharpest at
tack yet made by American capital
ism will be launched against the
toiling masses with the full and most
active support of the government.
Left Wing in U. S. Grows.
But do not think that the Amer
lean workers have not fought back
As American capitalism grows, the
revolutionary movement in the Uni
ted States has grown. 100000
workers quit the mines, mills and
factories to demonstrate in the
streets for the liberation of Sacco
and Vanzetti. Long, bitter strikes
have broken out in which the prole-
tariat have given the bosses blow
for blow.
Within the past two years alone
we saw 100000 miners fight for IS
months, 10000 textile workers in
Passaic struggle for over a year,
tens of thousands Of clothing work
ers in New York City fight on for
many months, 10000 textile workers
in New Bedford and EaU River.