The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
United Front Against All
Betrayers

And now not only the former members of
the Workmen's Circle as we'll as the left and
progressive members who have not yet quit the
Workmen's Circle, but also the left and pro-
gressives of the Independent Workmen's Cir
Gle, who cannot and will not separate them
selves from the sound creative forces of the
working class, confronted with the great
task of freeing themselves both of the influ-
ence of the black Workmen's Circle clique and
of the influence of the Independent clique.
Our conference, representing the left ele-
ments of both fraternal organizations, declares
solemnly that the time is ripe to organize
new fraternal order for all those who follow
the line of the class struggle.
We have been patient We have tried every
possible means. We have gone far out of our
way. We were ready to make compromises in
order to unite all the left and progressive ee-
ments of the fraternal orders. We realize now
and this is obvious to all the workers-that
the Independent Workmen's Circle is no better
than the Workmen's Circle. Both are boss or
ders. Both serve capitalist interests.
The October conference declared that the In
dependent Workmens Circle had "begun to
move ever closer to the class conscious section
of the working class" This remains true as
far as the left and progressive majority of the
Independent Workmen's Circle is concerned.
However, a crystaliZation has taken place in
this order during the last few months. The
left have become more class-conscious and more
willing to struggle. The right have become
more aggressive and have united with the
Forward and with the Workmen's Circle. The
right are in control. The right have fortified
themselves with an amendment making it i'm
possible for the order to serve the class strug
gle. The right have on their side the courts,
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will go to any length, even far as breaking
the order, to retain their domination. lie. the
power of the bosses over the organization.
1t is therefore absolutely necessary for the
left and progressive members of the Independ-
ent Workmen's Circle to leave that organiza-
ton and to unite with the former members of
the Workmen's Circle in a separate fraternal
order.
The situation is favorable The revolutionary
labor movement is growing. The struggles of
the working class are becoming more and more
stormy. Even the backward elements of the
working class begin to stir. When such a
proletarian fraternal order is founded, it will
be joined not only by seven to eight thousand
former members of the Workmen's Circle who
have long shaken the dust of that organization
off their feet, and not only by the progressive
members of the Independent Workmen's Circle
who cannot and will not carry the yoke of the
black, but also by thousands upon thousands of
workers who have so far stayed away from all
fraternal orders.
For all these elements we must build new
fraternal order. Out of those elements there
will be organized powerful fraternal order
whose aim it will be to serve the workers
interests
We hereby agree to organize such an order
We appeal to all the workers to join the new
order.