The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-13
THE |. W. w. AND THE
A. F. L. UNITE

weavers' Union to organize relief activities,
the takers in the union refused to do SO, stating
that they had several hundred dollars and that
the workers were all right and did not need
relief; they disrupted, in every possible way,
the relief activities of the W. |. R., thus him
dering the planned campaign of the Workers
international Relief, which had as its pro-
gram the support of the strike through an or
gained campaign of relief and publicity.
However, this did not prevent the T. U.
U. L. and the W. /. r. in carrying out some
essential work in support of the strikers. The
W. l. R. has succeeded in bringing the ap-
peal of the strikers before many workers and
has organized its relief mainly around Moclips,
because there the workers give their support
to the activities of the w. l. r.
Not being content in preventing the w. l. +.
from organizing their relief activities at the
outset of the strike, and when the w. l. R. did
succeed in putting the relief work on an or
gained basis the /. w. w. takers came out
in vicious article in their Shiny sheet, telling
the workers that the w. |. r. was feeding
"lousy Skid-road buns" with T-bone steaks
and various ether choice foods, eating UP the
strikers food, ETC.
This cannard was typical Of the propaganda
of the bosses. showing clearly the degeneracy
into fascism of the I. W. w. The strikers
themselves see this vicious campaign for what
it is, and they denounce it in ringing terms
because these strikers who themselves belong
to the W. l. r. and help the w. I. R. in its
activities and handle the funds and the dis
tribution of the food, etc., are in better posi-
ton to know, and by now, the workers have
been acquainted with the dastardly lies that
the l. W. W. have been spreading in order to
defeat the strike.
On the one hand, they pose as friends, and
mouth radical" phrases, and on the other
hand. commit the most reactionary deeds
against the workers, but the workers are
pretty thoroughly convinced of the reaction
airy and fascist role of the alliance of the
/. W. w and the A. F. of L. takers.
Some of the rank and file workers who
managed to get on the strike committee ars
being kept away from the meetings through
the intrigues of "Stumpy" Payne, who is the
master of ceremonies of the strike committee.
This is done, Of course, in order to prevent
the rank and file from participating in the
strike activities and to make it easier for the
leaders" and the takers to sell out the strike
against the protests of the workers from
Moclips and other sections.
The 1. w. W., which claims to be an indus
trial organization, is steering this craft union
committee, which is narrow, small committee
unable and unwilling to draw in rank and file
workers on large scale to continue and spread
the strike; they are preparing not only to sell
out the strike, but even to pave the way for
still greater attack upon the part of the
bosses.
The Shngleweavers must wake up and re-
alize that the radical" phrases that are
spouted by the perverts who are at the head
OF the social-fascist l. w. W., are simply so
many smoke-screens under which the doder-
ing and dying Wobbly crew knife us in the
back. This has been strikingly brought home
to me in the past years.