The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
By I. AMTER.

WorkerS 1lghtlng mllltantly on the
picket line; textile workers of New
Jersey and New York, preparing fol-
a national strike; needle trade work
ers in the midst of the organization
drive; taxi drivers faced with the is
sue of fighting against INFLAMMATION
masses of unorganized workers il
the shops disconnected and willing tt
struggle. Millions of workers out Of
work, necessitating the formation OF
unemployed councils, to fight fol-
protection. Older workers are being
thrown into the streets-the daily
record being suicide, starvation,
young workers taking their places ir
scarser numbers. Women displacing
men because they work cheaper
girls taking the place of boys; the
number of child laborers increasing
right in the vicinity of New York
the richest city of the world.
Great Militancy Needed
The needle trades workers prepare
for the struggle. The reactionary
Social-Fascist International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union prepares
for the counter attack by modelling
all the gangsters and underworld in
the city. Operating with the under
world are eminent" judges, who sit
on the bench and send the militant
workers to Jail. Seated on the
benches are judges who make vicious
assaults on young boys. In the city
hall sits Mayor Walker, who faces
the hunger and joblessness of the
workers by raising his salary and
that of other officials of the city
government.
City Hall Corruption
In the cit ygovernment sthe head
of the city cossacks, Mr.. Whalen who
has outfitted his men with airplanes
and radios, who has decreed to mill
tarise the $4,000 taxi drivers of the
city.
Behind the shoe manufacturers
stands the U. S. Government through
the Department of Labor, and the
n Y. State Department of Labor,
working operating through the press
and with the aid of the manufacture
ers, in the hope of intimidating the
workers in the Independent Shoe
Workers Union. Behind the dress
manufacturers stand the State Gov
eminent through Governor Roose-
welt and Lieutenant-Governor Leh-
man, aiding the reactionary, bloody
gangster Social Fascist A. F. of l..
bureaucrats against Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union. Behind
the silk and dye manufacturers of
Paterson stands the Chamber of
Commerce, which permits the Music
Group in the A. F. of L. to carry on
its work openly against the National
Tetile Workers Union. Behind the
owner of the Monroe cafeteria-in-
significant though it be-stand the
Restaurant Owners Association, the
association, the State Government,
the black, reactionary A. F. of L. Of
ficialdom; against the Hotel, Restau-
rant and Cafeteria Workers Union.
Opposed to the taxi drivers stand the
city government, the big auto con-
Germs and the A. F. of l.. bureau
crazy.
M0re-Yes More Struggle
Tho 1,yo,.1ro 70 o,,,or +boen onpI,
tions are moving into gigantic strug-
giles. Not only the workers in the
new industrial unions, but the I'M
organized workers in the shops, who
look to the fighting industrial unions
for organization and leadership; as
well as the masses of workers in the
reactionary unions who recognize
more and more the treachery of the
A. f of l.. leadership, which is
openly selling out the workers to
the bosses.
They Must Be Modified to Fight
Together
And behind it all stands the So
cialist Party leering for prey. The
open tool of the capitalists, it speaks
the language of the workers, it has
the bloody hands of the A. F. of L.
officialdom, wet with the blood of
New York workers. 1t espouses the
cause of the capitalists, openly be-
traying them.
And above it, the danger of war
WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION.
War to wipe out the Workers Faith
erland; war on the workers of the
United States, war on the workers
and peasants of Nicaragua, Haiti
China, Central and South America
war against the workers and peas
ants of the Soviet Union. Peace they
talk about--peace in London-but
guns, ammunition, gases, airplanes
they are producing as never before
Out in the streets the workers
demonstrate against American i'm
perialism in behalf of their brothers
in Haiti and Mexico. Out in the
streets, the workers figh. for theil
rights, for the decent living
Down With Imperialism
Today the issue is COMMUNISM
AGAINST IMPERIALISM. TIL,
workers must choose. The fighting
workers make one choice: TIKI
COMMUNIST PARTY, AS TIKI
FIGHTING PARTY OF THE
WORKING CLASS. The militan
workers are joining the Communis
Party to build up the working elias
organs of struggle. Workers in tn
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