The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-03
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TUT. BUILDS A
DISTRICT Center
Metal Workers Confer
on Increased Drive

(Cont1rHcd from rage OneJ
young workers, women and Negro
delegates on it.
Program of Action.
The organization and program of
action report was made by the dis
trict secretary of the league, George
Siskind, yesterday, and discussion in
which very many of the delegates
participated took UP most of the
day.
Unemployment.
The struggle of the unemployed
came into every discussion, and
formal report on the spread of I'M
employment, the need of uniting the
unemployed with those still having
Jobs for fight to win the demands
Of both was presented by II. Sager
in the evening session yesterday.
The convention is on record for
the T.U.U.L. organization to partici-
pate fully in the Friends of the So
Wet Union conference March 10, and
the mass meetings to defend the So
Wet Union, March Is. 1t also voted
unanimously for the T.U.U.L. or
ganization to participate fully, to
strike and demonstrate, in the world
wide unemployment day, March g..
Expose Social Eascists.
The main report Saturday was
that of Jack Johnson, for the ma
tional office of the T.U.U.L., in
which he explained the program of
struggle and organization of the
Red International of Labor Unions,
of which the T.U.U.L. is the Ameri-
can section. He showed how the
present world crisis is not only the
regular often-repeated economic cri-
sis of capitalism, due to accumula-
ton of surplus value, but it aggra-
waited by the naturalization, by the
increased struggle for markets, by
the increased productivity of the in
dustrial plants, etc. He told Of the
worldwide reaction of the workers
against this increased exploitation,
unemployment and misery. The
capitalists plan wars, and an attack
on the U.S.S.R., and meanwhile
seek to divide the workers racially,
by religion, by nationalities, and in
every other way, including the use
of fake unions and fake strikes.
Some weaknesses of the T.U.U.L.
are their failure in
many cases to come in at the be-
ginning of spontaneous strikes by
the workers, and to take advantage
of chances to organize and struggle
which are multiplying on every side.
At the Cleveland convention, the
organized right wing, led there by
Gitlow, with its announced
theory that United States capitalism
a "Hooverian Age" of
prosperity, that the industrialization
of the South guarantees this pros
perity, that the workers will not
struggle, that the Negro workers
are a source of strength and a
strike-breaking force for the capt.
talists, was smashed. Right wing
tendencies exist and are dangerous,
however, and show themselves by
distrust of the workers, and by hes
itancy, failure to take the offensive
and broaden struggles, and too much
narrow defensive strategy in strug-
giles.
tombstone spoke for the broaden
ing of the circulation of Labor Unity
into the mass organ.
A handful of the Lovestone rene,
gades appeared, and tried obstruc-
zionist tactics; but they were so COM
pletely squelched by overwhelming
voting down their every
proposal of a right wing nature,
that they sank out of sight.
The sessions were summed up and
concluded by Bill Dunno, who spoke
on the basic line of the struggle in
this period, and the necessity of FOL-
lowing a militant policy.
Metal Workers Conference.
An important feature of the con-
vention was the metal workers con-
ference, still going on at late hour
last night. One of the principal
matters before the conference was
the building of organization for the
national convention of metal work
ers, called to meet June 14-15 in
Youngstown, Ohio.
Active preparations were made to
strengthen the local machinery OF
the metal workers league.