The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-19
SocialDenagogy
in Chicago
BY STEVE RUBICKI.

under the leadership of the Unemployed Coun-
Gill; Graham Taylor, an editorial writer of the
Chicago Daily News, exclain1s:
Late as it is, would not such demonstrations
be very desirable if held by the Chicago Fedora
ton Of Labor" In other words, the Chicago
finance capitalists through their papers call
upon the American Federation of Labor to pre-
vent the masses from following the leadership
OF the revolutionary workers and to mislead
them into their harmless channels Obeying Its
masters voice, the leadership of the Chicago
Federation OF Labor is busy on the job to de-
Velop movement through the Labor Day
parade under its own leadership with the use of
demagogic phrases. Fitzpatrick Nockles, exper-
fenced in the use of social-demagogy, while
completely merged with and controlled by the
fascist gangster elements of the Nelson oylan-
Building Trades leaders type, come in very
handy in this connection
The Federation News, which is printing the
articles of Green, Vol and Others and melting
to war against the Soviet Union, at the same
time have been giving extensive publicity to
the Labor Day parade and other maneuvers to
fool The workers. hundred thousand people
are expected, according to the News and the
bourgeois press, to participate in the first Labor
Day parade since 1921 to take place in the heart
of the city and to end at Soldiers Field with
big demonstration There is no need to saw
that the police, that always prevent the unelr1-
ployed from going into the holy business section
of the loop, is fully cooperating to make the
parade which is alleged to be held against I'M
employment success. For weeks and weeks
full mobilization has been taking place in the
local unions for this parade. Not trusting the
demagogic phrases in the Labor Day Manifesto
headlines like big fortunes of Few Poverty of
NAI
News; all kinds of terrorization and typical A.
F. of L. methods used to get the masses to
parade. In the Journeymen Tailors' local mo-
ton was passed by the officialdom that those
who failed to participate in the parade shall be
fined So. Similar decisions are being made in
the other locals These decisions together with
the following sentence in their Labor Day
Manifesto workers beware, wake up-never
mind going on your fishing trips to the North
Woods or any place eIse," shows that the ZEN
thusiasm" for Labor Day is not so hot after ALL
This Labor Day parade is only part of the
maneuvers of the Chicago Federation of Labor
to disarm the workers with their social dema-
gogy. The Cook County Farmer-Labor Party
was recently reorganized through the participa-
ton of the "progressives" in the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor. They also called upon the
American Federation of Labor not to hold its
come to Chicago in order to tackle the prob
lem right the spot They carried on big
agitation for this change of the convention let
tiers were supposed to be sent from local unions
to the Executive Council of the A. F. of L., but
they were turned down very decisively by Green
and VOL, who would not violate the convention
decision to meet in Canada, which is better for
an A. F. L. convention in the sense Of being far
away from the masses, having nice cool weather
and plenty of drinks besides.
The A. F. L. membership are highly hit by
unemployment Eighty per cent of the Build
ing Trades workers are unemployed or working
one or two days week. Lay-offs in the trans
portation unions are on the increase. While
fighting on the further maintenance Of union
wages, the majority of the workers are getting
paid way below the scale. The fascist leader
ship is not doing thing to improve the con-
ditions of the membership. The influence of
the TUUL is growing. number of local unions
have sent delegates to our various United Front
Conferences and are willing to work with the
revolutionary workers This has been taking
place in spite of insufficient attention to the
A. F. of L. on our part. 1t will not be stopped
by terror nor by the phrase mongering Of Fitz-
patrick and Nockles, of "granaries bursting,
banks loaded with money, but the workers are
penni1ess, hungry, can't get work and their
uCCle savings wiped OUT Dy DdIlk IdllureS. Wudb
are the A. F. L. workers going to do IN the face
of all this?
Organized labor is not going to stand par
alyzed and 90 nothing" your Manifesto
states, Mr.. Fitzpatrick, but they will not be
fooled by you nor by the other wel1-fed graft
ing officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor.
They will not fall for your left phrases, just as
they won't for the terror actcs Of Umbrella"
Mike Boyle Durkn, Malloy and other gangster
fellow officials of yours They will not partici-
pate in your parade by the tens of thousands.
The workers can dtferentiate between demon
strations and demonstrations They saw the
August funeral demonstration of hundred
thousand Negro and white workers on the South
Side in which the TUUL actively participated
and they know that it Is only through such
struggles and demonstrations that they can Inn
prove their conditions.
The TUUL cfllls upon all workers not to par
ticipate in this fake Labor Day parade Of tho
Chicago Federation of Labor arranged IN con-
junction with the city officials and police. Those
union members that are forced to participate
must utilize it in order to expose this fake
maneuver and take along banners and slogans
that will rouse the workers to action under mill
tant leadership. The Labor Day demonstration
of the Chicago workers will take place at the
Labor Day picnic of the TUUL at Silver Leaf
Grove, Milwaukee Ave-, which will be attended
by thousands of employed and unemployed Or
ganized and unorganized, Negro and white work.
ers demonstration of unity Of the workers
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