The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
SHOE WORKERS
FIGHT UNION
ATTACK BY us.
Answer Bosses Tools
With Militancy

pdny unions, Satisfactory 10 them.
The United States Department of
Labor has attacked the Shoe Work.
ers' Union as be :, a Communist
Union. This is the usual method of
the enemies of the working class
who try to prevent the workers
f." org zing. The employers be-
lieve that by raising the issue of
Communion they will he able to
brighten the worke- and keep them
from militant struggle.
The workers, however, are recog-
nizing that the Communists are the
best leaders and organizers of the
workers and as the drive for cap
italist naturalization is forcing
them to ganize, they accept Com
munist leadership with enthusiasm.
The State Department of Labor
in an effort to confuse the workers
pretend to be in antagonism to the
United States Department of Labor.
No worker has any illu' IONS as to
the functioning of the state and the
United States departments of labor.
They exist for the sole function of
strike breaking and Of aiding the
manufacturers in fighting the
unions. Mr.. Regain of the State
Department of Labor may pretend
that he is in opposition of Mr.. Wood
and the United States Department
of Labor, but we know that as
strike-breaking agencies they work
hand in glove with the manufacture
ers and the / kers against the in
terests of the workers.
The struggle of 5000 workers
against the combined forces of the
State and the capitalists is not suf-
ficient. Only the mass mobilization
and orga ION of the unorganized
will make it possible to defeat the
plcas of the manufacturers. These
are the tasks, therefore, of the In
dependent Shoe Workers Union:
1.-THE main job is to organize
the 10000 unorganized workers,
particularly those in he big shops.
2.-It is necessary through mass
picketing and demonstrations to
draw the workers out of the shops
and into the struggle, thereby de-
veloping the militant spirit of the
workers.
3.-The Independent Shoe Work
ers Union must mobilize the sup
port of the whole working class in
this struggle, for the Eight against
the shoe workers is not an isolated
phenomenon of the class struggle to-
day. Running parallel to the shoe
workers struggle is the organiza-
ton drive of the dressmakers of
New York, the beginning of the
struggle of the textile workers in
not lead the workers into any strug-
gle for increase of wages.
4.-The Independent Shoe Work.
ers Union must recognize that the
young hoe workers are the best
fighting elements for the building
up of the union and must draw
them into the strur and into the
leadership of the union.
Now Are Advancing.
This goal can be reached by a
clear understanding OF the present
period of the class struggle, in
which the workers no longer are
acting on thu defensive, but definite
ly are taking the offensive against
the capitalist class, being forced
into the struggle as the result of
naturalization. The workers, I'M
questionably, are in a mood to
struggle and in recognition of this
fact the leadership of the Inde-
pendent Shoe Workers Union must
destroy all illusions thai they may
have as regards distinctions between
the forces of the enemy class, and
its representatives through the New
York and the United States Depart
ment of La /. They must have no
illusion as to the role of the Work
mems Circle leaders and the United
Hebrew Trades, these social-facist
organizations, which are openly
combating the interests of the
workers and support, the National
Fascist Council of Hoover They
must recognize that the small man.
ufacturers play but secondary role
in the struggle and the main forces
must be directed gainst the big
shops controlled by the Board of
Trade. The Independent Shoe Work
ers Union must recognize that the
struggle confined to the metropoli-
tan area will not suffice and that
preparations st be made, not only
for an energetic organization drive
within this area, bu. 10 extend the
drive throughout the country, in
preparation for general strike.
The shoe workers must recognize
that their struggle is directly con-
nected with all the other struggles
and that full mobilization is neces-
sary throughout the country. This
mobilization through the industrial
unions affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League is the safeguard for
the workers of each industry, and
therefore the convention of the
Textile Workers Union in Paterson,
the building up of the National
Miners Union, the building up of the
Natioral Industrial Leagues Of the
n. U. U. L. as the first steps to the
formation of fighting unions in the
basic industries, are part Of the