The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-30
2 MILWAUKEE STRIKES
SHOW SOCIALIST PLAN
OF BETRAYINC WORKERS
Failure of Militant Union and Party to Be in
Mills Before Strike Nearly Fatal
Partial Victory Could Have Been Completes;
Get Into Factories and Workshops!

the struggle of the workers, and even
uses the method Of calling prema-
ture and unorganized strikes-in this
way helping to defeat the workers.
In the Simplex Shoe factory, when
they felt that the workers were be-
ginning to revolt, were dissatisfied,
they told them to strike immedi-
ately-in fact, they even spread the
false rumor that one department has
already quit work-thus stampeding
the rest Of the workers. On the first
day Of the strike, they told the work
erS there is no need for any picket
ing, that while it is true the police
were around the factory, they are
there in order to cooperate with the
workers. In the first meeting of the
workers, all the Socialist Party lead
erShip of Wisconsin-yes, the whole
state and county leadership, Met
calfe, Krysicki, Sham, and the heads
of the Amalgamated-2O of them
came to the strike meeting, where
they modified and organized the re-
moval of the militant workers from
the strike committee-and, in this
way, beheaded the struggle of the
workers. Before even consulting with
the workers, the social-fascist lead-
ers issued statement "the strike is
finished
Workers Learn Fast.
Some workers understood the
United Front better than we did.
They were for a united struggle and
did not care whether a worker was
Communist or not, so long as there
was agreement to fight for their de-
mands. While on the first day of the
strike some Of the workers were ter
rorized into voting to expel the Com
munistS from a committee, on the
second day of the strike it mecame
clear to them what role the social
fascists play. The Socialists, among
them candidate for gov
ernor and member of the county
board-Pepsnhagen, Rosenblum Of
the Amalgamated, ETC., promised
them % "Yipsels" in the picket line.
cooperation" of the police, etc.
The only cooperation the workers
received was the brutality on the
part of the socialist police against
the militant workers. And as far as
the Y. P. S. L. were concerned, some
of them Scabbed while the workers
were out on strike, and when the
Socialist Party leaders thought the
ranks Of the workers were sufficiently
disintegrated, they never showed up
againl
The workers quickly saw that the
only true leaders of the struggles, the
only realfighters for their demands.
are the Communists and members of
the T. U. U. L. The workers realize
that to defend their living standards
against further wage-cuts and speed
up, they must organize committees
in the shops under the program and
leadership Of the T. U. U. L. This
became clear not only during the
strike, but even after the strike.
when hundreds of workers continued
to attend the factory meetings called
by the T. U. u. L.
Real Job Starts Now.
While, before the struggle, we had
no contacts in the shop-now we
have many personal contacts, besides
we are known by hundreds of the
workers in the plant. These must
be taken into consideration.
Now, with the contacts established
in the shop, it will be the task Of
the T. U. U. L. to begin a real cam
paign of organization in building the
factory groups, and the Shoe Work
ers' Industrial Union! Here is where
we must utilize the everyday per-
sonal contact with the workers. If
these new contacts are not followed
up, not drawn into activity, then we
viii revert to our former position of
isolation.
These small spontaneous strikes in
dictate that the workers are ready
for struggle, they explode the theory
of the social fascists (also held by
some comrades), that the offensive
of the bosses against the unemployed
and repeated wage-cuts have lex
hausted" the working class, and that
the workers can offer little resistance.
1t is the task Of the Party and Of
the T. U. U. L. to be prepared and
to lead these growing struggles.