The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
EVIDENCE OF
WILL TO FIGHT
OF The WORKERS
Unity League Hits Lore
Wrecking Tactics

The Trade Union Unity League
has issued the following statement
on the affiliation' of the Amalga-
mated Food Workers with it:
"The membership of the Anal
camated Food Workers Union voted
in the referendum recently concluded
TO affiliate with the Trade Union
Unity League. This vote is a sig
nificant victory for every member
of the Amalgamated, for the mill
tants fighting against the fascist
Lehman of Walters Local No. l, the
corrupt bosses clique and fascist
United Hebrew Trades and Bakers
Local 500 of the A. F. of L. and the
tens of thousands of unorganized
food workers.
This vote on the part of an unnnis-
taxable majority of the A.F.W.
membership marks the beginning Of
a new period in the struggle to or
ganize tens of thousands of fearful
by exploited food workers.
"By affiliating with the new revo-
lutionary trade union center, the
members of the AF.W. signify their
determination to struggle militantly
against the slave conditions, the IL
to IA hour day, the crushing speed
up, low wages, mass unemployment,
for the organization of the morgan
lied, and the consolidation of all
organized and unorganized food
workers into one powerful National
Industrial Union.
For Class Struggle.
"Only the class struggle program
of the T.U U.L., only the militant
leadership of the new union center
holds out any hope for the food
workers. The Burkhardt, Gundt and
Lore leadership of the A. F. L. is
completely bankrupt. They have
turned the Amalgamated into a
company union, no better than the
strike breaking ALL. Food Crafts
Council and the underworld clique
of Bakers Local No. 500.
"While the Hotel and Cafeteria
section is engaging in one militant
battle after another, while it is win
ming victory after victory for the
Cafeteria Workers, forcing union
conditions, cutting hours, and fore.
ing the bosses to grant wage in
creases, the Burkhardt, Gundt, Lore
bureaucracy are mounting fake
phrases and turning one Amalga-
mated shop after another into a
scab nest. Due to the class peace
policy of Burkhardt, union standards
in Amalgamated shops have been
smashed. While thousands of bakers
are unemployed, facing extreme
misery, the II to IA hour day is
tolerated. Wages are constantly cut,
and the speed-up has no limit. The
leadership of the Amalgamated is a
narrow bureaucratic clique The fact
that there is absolutely no distinc-
ton whatsoever between the fake
progressive Amalgamated, and the
A.F.L. company union is proven by
the rapid pace with which Lore,
Burkhardt, and Gundt are leading
the Amalgamated into the folds Of
the A.FL.
Burkhardt's Wrecking.
"Lore and Burkhardt are using
desperate union smashing tactics in
order to violate the will of the men,
bership for affiliation with the T.U.
I'LL. Burkhardt and Lore claim
that the T.U.U.L. referendum was
defeated by 200 votes. The en-
tire membership, however, knows
that the claim of Burkhardt is based
on the most corrupt vote stealing
and splitting tactics. Food Clerks
Local No. II, leading militant strug-
giles to organize the food clerks is
not recognized by Burkhardt. Phila-
delphia and Cleveland locals are dis
counted. The suspension of of the
best locals of the Amalgamated I'M
der the pretext of arrears in per
capita payment, prove conclusively
that Lore, Burkhardt and Gundt arc
using desperate splitting tactics be
cause the membership has decided
to force them to relinquish their
corrupt bureaucratic and crushing
leadership.
New Forces.
"Not only are the members of the
A.F.W. ready to engage in militant
struggle against the slave condi
tions forced upon them by the bosses