The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-13

Strikers at the General Fabrics Mill, Central
Falls, Il. 1.
only one there was the deadly influence of the
A. F. of L.; there was the extreme weakness
of the revolutionary unions. Now a change is
taking place The illusions about the length
of the crisis are being hquidated. Wage cut has
followed wage cut. The first real stage of
strikes is beginning.
A.F.L. Tactics Fit In With The Bosses
The policy OF the A. F. of L. leaders has also
changed, and has been adapted to the situa-
tior to fit in with the bosses policy and tactics.
The A. F. of L. policy has also undergone three
STAGE: first, the stage marked by the Hoover
A. F. Of L. agreement which laid the basis for
wholesale wage cuts: the second stage, in which
the A. F. of L. leaders dropped the arguments
that wages we're not being cut but began to
state that wages must come down in order to
bring about prosperity; this was marked by
their tactics of voluntary wage cuts, as in
hosiery, in W. Va, the railroads, etc. The A. 2.
of l.. has now entered into its most dangerous
stage of aiding the wage cutting of the bosses,
it now uses the tactic of showing a radical face,
OF leading strikes against wage cuts in order
to betray them. This is because the radicaliza-
ton of the workers makes it difficult for the
takers to sell the workers out behind closed
doors at the conference table The A. F. of L.
leaders even put themselves at the head of the
unorganized workers to betray their strikes
Their next step is the application of arbitration
to betray the strikes of the workers against
wage cuts For instance, in December, the legal
machinery under the Watson-Parker Law will in
all probability be brought in.
Lack of Day to Day Work
The revolutionary unions have, except in a
few instances played a minor part in leading
the workers against wage cuts. This was due
to our lack of preparations failure to develop
systematic shop work based on partial demands
to build the United Front from below, to sys-
Dramatically work within the A. F. of L.
Fosters report was followed by Jack Stachels
report on Work in the Factories.
Why Stress Work in Factories?
y Precisely at the present. time, StacheI said,
when the burden is being shifted on the work
ers shoulders, when the employers are trying to
utilize the unemployed to lower the standard
of the workingclass, is required, more than ever
before, organization inside the shops, to give
courage and unity to the workers
Failure to understand that further develop
ment of struggles without work in the shops
cannot occur has led to our losing or not win
ming all demands in a number Of strikes, such
as Penn-ohio, Kentucky Paterson, etc
Where we did develop even the minimum of
organization inside the shops, we have been
the ones to lead the struggle, as in the shoe
industry in New York Il. Miller). We are right
in the departments here, and the A. f. of L.
cannot take leadership away from us
Shoe Union Made Big Progress
In the mining industry we have made the
beginning of developing our union on mine
basis But for a long time we had mostly I'M
employed miners in our ranks and it was diff
ficult to reorganize. Our Marine Workers In
,dustrial Union liz completely organized on a
rritorial basis, not on a basis of docks and
3. Tha shoe union has made the greatest