The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11

POSSIBILITIES OF
cap tur ing the }. Ford
majority of the working class for
evolutionary struggle.
The deepgoing crisis in Amer
lean capitalism which has been 60
ing for some time but which has
been brought more sharply to the
foretront by the recent market
crash on Wall Street has number
OF direct effects upon the working
class of America. The foremost of
these is naturalization.
The effects of naturalization and
the speed-up are at the bottom of
the misery of the workers. Every
worker knowns that the speed-up
system threatening his job, that
mounting unemployment is the out
growth of the speed-up and ration
alization.
Every worker knows, for example,
that when Henry Ford in the auto
mobile industry promises wage in
creases that this increase will be at
the expense of a large number of
- workers being let out and terrific
speed=up for those who are left. But
of course this is not alone typical
of the Ford automobile industry, it
: -ss typical of the whole of American
I. industry. Unemployment which has
become acute and permanent is
basically brought about through the
whole system IF naturalization.
: ''st> 1t cannot <e denied that the liv-
Ing standard of the American
working class is being lowered and
worsened this in the face of the
prosperity dope handed out by the
boosters of American conditions.
In certain sections of the coun-
try the south in particular liv-
ing conditions are not only ex-
tremely deplorable but are worse
than the living conditions of the
poos exploited Chinese and Indian
workers the pariahs of British
exploitation.
a The spontaneous wave of revolt
and strikes that has spread over
the South is the most vivid example
salof the reaction of the workers to the
< rotten conditions existing in this
country. Here in this "out of the
way" section of America, compris-
ing more than 40 millions of its
3 population is a volcano rumbling.
- rs: At the time of these fierce class
battles and sharp class antagonism
the A. F. L. and the socialist party
are showing themselves the allies of
the capitalist in beating down the
) workers diserganizing and democrat
izing them. This is unnlistakable
to every worker inside the A. F. L.
and to hundreds of thousands of
workers outside the A. F. L.
Most of all the A.F.L. has since
its very inception carried on a
policy of jim-cfowism and exclu-
sion towards Negro workers. 1t
= has done nothing to bring this
great section of workers into the
organized labor movement.
zs4 Negro Workers
~ Negro workers are most inn
portant potentially revolutionary
section of the American working
class, comprising about one tenth of
the population and about one sew
enth of the working class and
= situated in strategic positions in
American industry. The winning Of
these workers for revolutionary
struggle is a most important task.
~ In those industries where there
- Il . serious crisis-steel, auto
20, mobile, oil etc.,. there are de-
cisive numbers of Negro workers.
- In the Gary Hnd.) and the South
=. Chicago steel district they COM
-. prise 1915 of the workers, in the
.ses Birmingham steel district 1870, in
.sr the Pittsburg district 2lqo.
Il, In the automobile industry in De-
! + troit they are great factor. In
Ford plants 1919 of the forces are
: Negroes; Huppmobile 1870; Stude-
baker 1870; McCord Radiator 1870
80 Cadillac 5f6 and so on down to ia
svel the Paige-Detroit company.
~ The oil fields of Oklahoma and
e :Texa, 'eport a large number OF
/, Negrs workers. t
Il - Indu. sialization Of the South is
!" bringing larger numbers of Negro
workers Tito the factories.
~ Breakdown White Chauvinism
~ Tho breaking down Of white
p chauts4sm is the main task. This
80 strugxN must be carried on on the
l-~ widest front. Success has been
q registered n the South in spite OF
= the betrtys, of the A. F. l.. in
~. spite Of tife Ties o! he socialists.
IS Manifesto. ion Of che will of thu
\. Negro workers for ~-yle has beer
as, shown by a nun =. Of examples IL
the last short per d. The CLEVELAND
~ Convention of vie Trade Uniol
:. q Unity League i, August had tn
y largest and mo- significant gather
rTs ing Of Negro ..-legates that hav
ever been assembled in such con
vention in this country in spite o
difficulties. in preparation.
The Negro workers were drow
TO the T.U.U.L. Convention becaus
Of ito proven determination to for
Z trade union center of struggle ar