The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-07
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Resolution Adopted at the NY.
TUG Conference Feb. %

The conference records the fact of
considerable intensification Of the
offensiveof the bosses against the
living standards of the bosses. The
wages in most of the factories in this
district have been cut three times in
the last two years. Unemployment
and part time employment are on
the increase in most of the industries
while the decrease in prices OF COM
modities and particularly of apart
ments rents is insignificant compared
with the decrease of the workers in
come
The conference calls the attention
of the entire working class not only
to the increasing huge expenditures
for war preparations, while millions
of unemployed and part time en-
ployed starVe, but to the imminence
of new world war. The slaughter Of
workers and peasants has already
been started in the Far East by jap
anese Imperialism.
The capitalist class of the U. S.,
not satisfied with unloading the eff
fects of the crisi uSpon the workers
is preparing way out for itself
through war; war at the expense Of
the workers directed against the
Chinese masses and the Soviet Union.
The workers of the U. S. who have
been called upon to sacrifice" their
standard of living to save the rotten
capitalist system, are to be called
upon to also give up their lives.
In view of these facts, the pro-
spective for the working class is one
of increasing organization and Strug-
gle against wage cuts, hunger and
war. The capitalists in their drive to
save their profits by destroying the
living standards of the workers had
and have the assistance of all ele-
ments interested in the preservation
of the capitalist order of society, be-
ginning with the leaders of the ALL,
down TO the Lovestonites, Green,
president Of the A. F. of L. supports
IIoo7ers regime, and LoveStone sup
ports Green and his socialist" allies
against the dreSsmakerS on strike.
They all use different phrases and
pretenses in misleading the workers.
Their aim, however, is the same-to
diSorganiZe and demoralize any re-
volutionary struggle, or organization
against capitalism, and its labor lieu
tenants, to break the workers resist
ance against the wage cutting often
Sive; to make the unions an append
age to capitalism.
The conference calls the attention
OF the working people of the U. S. A
again TO the fact that although the
leaders Of the A. F. L. two years ago
at the Washington conference be-
tween capital and labor presided over
by oocHvr, declared against wage
cuts, they have done their utmost
TO diSorganize and demoraGze the
struggle against wage cuts, they have
not only hoodwinked the workers, as
in the case of the railroad workers
TO accept the wage cut, but in their
eagerness to serve the bosses, as in
the case of the Full Fashioned Hosi-
cry workers, have taken the initiative
in imposing wage cuts upon the
workers. Nothing but rank treason
can be expected from them for the
workers of the building trades and
printing industry now faced with a
wage cut. Wherever the bosses and
the ALL. leaders and thir supporters
have not been able to make the work
erS accept the wage cuts, they have
resorted to dictatorial police methods
by the use of injunctions issued by
the federal or local judges, as in the
case of the tobacco workers in Tampa
Fla, in Kentucky, etc. In New York
we have had a veritable reign of in
functions particularly against the
food workers; altho the ALL. claims
to be against injunctions. like the
bosses, it uses the injunctions to out
law the militant unions, such being
the case in the injunction taken out
by the socialist ALL. unions
against the grocery clerks, butchers
and furriers.
The ALL. leaders and their 80
cialist' and renegade supporters work
hand in hand with the gangsters
and the police. The conference there
. fore points out the necessity of sharp
ening the struggle against all "vari-
cites" OF traitors to the working class
Organization.
The conference records the growth
of most of the TUUL unions and op-
position groups during the last year
from 1000 in December, 1880, to
1900 on February, 1882. 1t enapha-
siseS at the same time that this
growth is far from satisfactory, con-
sidering the objective possibilities,
particularly in relation to basic in
dustry. The major weaknesses that
have impeded the more rapid growth
OF the TUUL-namely, our weak base
in the shops, absence of concentrated
shop work-will, if not remedied be-
come disastrous, in view of the fact
that the workers willingness to strug-
lie against wage cuts, speed-up and
unemployment this year will un-
doubtedly increase, but the workers
will not be in position to put UP
effective organized resistance in the
absence of effective shop unit or