The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-20
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Gar for Building Industry
Fear of Strikes in Spite of Board of Claims and
Fear of Revolt Against A F L Misleaders
Back of New Proposition

to stem the growing tide OF revolt
on the part of the building trades
workers, that the bosses, together
with the Building Trades Depart
ment of the A. F. L. organized the
National Board of Claims.
Prevents All Strikes.
The purpose of the National Board
Of Claims for the building indus
try is we'll explained by the state
ment of Oscar w. RosenthaI, chair
man of the Builders Association of
Chicago, to the bosses and the Of
ficials of the A. F. L. present at
the conference held at Atlantic City
last July. Its a wonderful thing
for the public; CD it absolutely
prohibits strikes in the building in
dustry"
Little Caesar" has continually
posed as progressive. The member
ship of Local of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
have learned through bitter exper-
fence that the word progressive"
when applied to Breach can only
mean progressive in the interests of
the bosses as opposed to the in
terestS of the workers.
In a statement to the membership
of the Electrical Workers Brother
hood in the April issue of the Jour-
nal of Electrical Workers and Oper-
ators, Breach both fights and ticks
the boots of the building bosses.
we refuse to provide general build
ers with a club to swing over union
officials (no unions-J. SIN de-
tern1ining the union policies and
actions or jurisdiction of work and
in the same statement Breach con-
tinues; 1--WE also proposed that il
union heads must have an outsider
the selection of one man-all
trades to furnish bond to abide by
his decisions"
Forcing Wage Cuts.
Breach is fully aware of the fact
that a National Gear for the build
ing industry is the most effective
means of further forcing wage cuts
speed-up and unemployment upon
the building trades workers. He is
well aware that the National Asso-
citation of Building Trade Employers
will have its purposes best served by
National Gar. But Little
Caeser" Breach must play his game
of "progressivism' to the finish-so
he proposes an impartial" Except
to the interests of the bosses Ma
tional Gar for the building industry.
Try To Fool
The statement by Breach in the
Electrical Workers Journal is an at
tempt on his part to fool the build
ing workers into believing that he
is protecting and defending their
interests. However, the workers are
well aware of Broach's pet state
ment to the bosses: THE bosses first
and not the union"-which in work
ing class language means: THE
bosses first and not the workers
AS a result of their present and
past experiences with the A. F. L,
officials, many building trades work
ers are now fully convinced that the
A. F. L. and it's affiliated building
trades unions will not and cannot
lead the workers into struggle
against the miserable conditions that
are forced upon them, that only the
Trade Union Unity League, the new
revolutionary trade union center,
can and does lead the workers into
struggle against the bosses and their
attempts to plae ethe full burden of
the crisis upon the backs of the
building trades workers.
These workers now look to the
Building and Construction Workers
Industrial League, is w. 21st St.
New York City, to lead them into
struggle against the bosses and their
agents, the officials of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.