The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-07
FIGHT 4. F. OF |.
NO STRIKE PACT
Chain Building Toilers
to Bosses

ton, mechanlZatlon ana the SlIl-
plification of labor have but shar'
pened the crisis within the building
industry,
Conservative figures on unem'
ployment in the building trades for
the last six months of 1929, as given
by the A. F. of l.. itself, were AZ
per cent of all building trades work.
ers. From July l to July %, with
81 business days, the Annalist, a
capitalist financial sheet, places the
loss in the value of building con-
tracts at the conservative figure of
ALTO per cent, as compared with
the same period of July, 1929.
More Jobless.
Placing the unemployed in the
building industry for July, 1929, at
the conservative figure of AZ per
cent, and adding to that the decline
of ALTO per cent in the value Of
building contracts for July, 1880
we can safely conclude that the to-
tai of unemployed building trades
workers for July, 1880, can be
placed at the approximate figure Of
SIS per cent of all building trades
workers. And this at the height
of the building season.
1t is to meet this situation, and
in an attempt to stem the growing
tide of revolt on the part of the
building trades workers, that the
bosses, together with the officials
of the A. F. of L., have organized
the National Board of Claims for
the building industry.
The DISQUALIFICATION between
the bosses and the officials of the
A. F. of L. in the creation of the
Board of Claims further exposes the
A. F. of l.. as an open agency of
the bosses, opposed to the interests
of the workers.
According to the agreement be-
tween the bosses and the A. F. of L.
officials, any building trades union
daring to strike for better condi-
tions and higher wages is to be
penalized by the trading division of
the American Federation of Labor.
No further proof is necessary that
the aim of the building bosses and
the officials of the A. F. of L. is
to complete the work of company
unionizing the building trades
unions.
Another part of the agreement
between the building bosses and the
officials of the A. F. of L. stipu-
lates that in the event of the fail.
ure of an employer to comply with
the decision of the Board of Claims
the penalty is to be decided by the
National Association of Building
Trades Employers.
No Penalty For Wage Cut.
No class-conscious worker car
ever imagine group of bosses pen
alizing an employer for his attemps
to cut the wages and legthen the
hours of the workers. In the strug-
gle against the workers, the bosses
maintain a united front.
The National Board of Claims is
also the contribution of the build
ing bosses to American imperialism
in its preparations for the coming
imperailist war. The officials Of
the Board of Claims composed OF
building employers and the A. F. Of
L. takers, will utilize its apparatus
in an attempt to whip into shape
the building trades workers as par
of the war machinery in the com
ing imperialist war.
AS a result of their present am
past experiences with the A. F. o.
l.. officials, thousands of building
trades workers are now fully con
WINGED that the A. F. of l.. and it.
affiliated building trade unions car
not and will not lead the worker;
into struggle for higher wages ant
better conditions, that only tn,
Trade Union Unity League, the new
revolutionary trade union center ca,
and does lead the workers int,
struggle for higher wages and bet
ter conditions.
A. F. L. Company Unionized.
The thousands of unorganizet
building trades workers, who, fol
many years were refused organiza
ton by the A. F. OF L. fascist of
ficials, now correctly realize tina
the A. F. of L. will not and canno
organize the unorganized workers
and that it is impossible to trans
form the A. F. of L. building trade,
company unions into trade unions ot
the workers as instruments of strug
gle against the bosses.
These workers now look to tn,
Building Trades and Construction
Workers Industrial League to or
ganize and lead them into struggl,
TO- higher wages and better condi
tons. The Building and Construc
ton Workers Industrial League alst
carries on the struggle against tn,
fascist leaders within the company
| unions Ia win the hopest rank apt