The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-29

NEW YORK.-"AH workers,
brothers, let us make Labor
Day day Of class struggle
against our enemies. Let us
use this day to increase our
united strenth. Let us devote
this day to the forging of the
unity Of the employed and I'M
employed, the native, foreign
born, the Negro and white, the
unity of all workers against the pres
eut conditions. Let us make Labor
Dav a day of struggle against WAGE
cuts, for the shorter workday with
cut reduction in pay; for unemploy-
n1ent relief and for unemployment
insurance; against the bosses terror;
against depcrtations; for the equal
rights to the Negro masses; against
imrerlalist war and for the defense
Of our fatherland, the Soviet Union.
eve cen DO this by taking UP these
Issues at all workers gatherings. by
turning the bos5-A. F. of L. leaders
Labor Day programs devoted to fast
ening chains around our necks into
rneotirg devoted to a fight to expose
this A. F. of L. policy, to unnlask
the A. p. Of L. leaders and to unite
cur ranks for the fight"
This is the conclusion of state
rlent mad. by the National Executive
Poard Of the Trade Union Unity
League, on Labor Day.
Class Collaboration
The. statement points out that
Labor Day (Sept. this year( is a
legal holiday established for the A.
) Of L. and railroad brotherhood
iireaucrats to appear on the plat
torn eleng with public officials who
eqht the unemployed demands for
relic, ard along with wage-cutting
employers, and join in chorus OF
praise fer the present capitalist sys-
TEN. On this day they praise espe-
cially class collaboration-the part
nership Of workers and employer by
which struggle is prevented and wage
cuts, speed-up and unemployment
increase. 1t is day set up to divert
the attention of the workers from
May Day, the real international
labor day. This is done, even though,
and even especially because. May Day
rs the day Of the workers class
struggle had its origin in the great
eight-hour day strike movement in
the United States in 1886.
Fruits of Collaboration
Workers can see the fruits of the
class collaboration which Green and
VOL preach. These fruits are 15,000,-
900 jobless, and millions more on part
time, with wage cuts everywhere.
Where workers fought as class,
and established the Soviet Union,
there is now no unemployment, there
is social insurance for any unemploy-
ment that might exist temporarily,
there is old age and sickness and
accident insurance, there are vaca-
tons with pay, there is the seven
hour day with increased wages. This
is all because the path of class strug
gle led to the abolition of the capt.
talist system, led to a workers and
farmers government which rules in
the interests of the toiling masses.
The T. U. U. L. statement points
out:
"Tt IS against this workers govern
ment that the A. F. of L., assisted by
the Socialists and the ISLANDERS of the
N5Y1etaifac and rnpaCodnc &c calling
fer war, because this workers govern
ment is showing the road to the ex-
plotted millions of this country.
Conditions Worsen
The T. U. u L. statement sum-
marizes the cutting off of relief, and
the attempt of Lewis and Walker to
fasten wage cuts on the miners,
while the government refuses relief
to starving millions, and gives billions