The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
BY Fred Ellis
Why the BOurgeoisie Is Scared

The capitalist class of the United States, see
ing that the struggle against unemployment is
assuming a revolutionary character, therefore
become alarmed and are now trying by all
means to destroy that struggle, to disarm the
workers of their determination and vitality by
means of organized fascist attack upon the
workers, by means of frame-ups and provoca-
ton. This explains why in the Senate, the
fake progressives, Borah, Wheeler and others,
have today raised the question of unemploy-
ment Every worker, however, must see that
the American Senate, another agent of the
Government, cannot solve their problems. They
have raised this question in order to stife it,
in order to mislead the workers, in order to
prevent the unemployment struggle from being
directed along revolutionary channels The
servants of the bosses in Congress and in the
Senate know that in the coming Congressional
elections this Fall, they will no longer be able
to speak to the masses of workers of prosperity
and the full dinner pail They know that as
result of the bitter experience of the American
workers themselves, the workers know that
capitalism is responsible for unemployment, and
the agents of capitalism, no matter what mask
they wear, will not be able to solve the unem-
ployment question.
Strike Breaking Role of the A. F. of L.
The role of the A. F. of l.. as agent of the
ly to the forefront in the present unemployment
struggle of the workers and the statement Of
Matthew .Woll and William Green, Vice-Pres-
ident and President respectively of the A. F.
of L. The A. F. of L. seeing that it lost COM
plete hold of the workers, particularly the un-
organized, the A. F. of L., seeing that in spite
of the Hoover-Green agreement wages ar cut
and lay offs are taking place. The A. F.
of L. has over quarter of its membership UNI
employed and in most of its industries over
half of its membership unemployed The A. F.
of L., seeing that the unemployment struggle
under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity
League is being driven along revolutionary
channels, therefore appeal to no others than
500 leading organizations of the bosses and to
the bosses government to take repressive ac-
tons against the Communist Party and the
revolutionary trade unions who lead the strug-
gle of the unemployed This act however, will
show not only to the mass of the unorganized
workers. but to the rank and file of the A. f.
of L. who were equally betrayed by the A. F.
of l.. bureaucracy, what the A. +. of L. is
AS the only solution of the unemployment
question the A. +. Of l.. PROPOSES to suppress
the Communists and the militant labor. organ-
cations. The A. F. of l.. does not think that
worker is a productive element in society,
that society owes hin, living and when this
society cannot provide him with living, it
is therefore bankrupt. has outlived itself and
must be replaced by new social system. What
the A. F. of L. proposes is that the unemploy
ed workers shall ask for charity in order to
support themselves and their starving families.
The A. F, Of L.. would reduce the seven mil
lion unemployed workers, who together with
their families make up twenty million human
beings, to beggars who only exist on
the good will and the crumbs that the bosses
will be ready to give them This strike break
ing role Of the A. F. Of l.. reactionary leader
ship must convince every rank and file worker
of the Federation that their duty is to organize
the rank and file workers against the reaction