The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-11
AFL HEADS RAISE
CRY: "OUTSIDERS"
TO SPLIT STRIKE
Auto Workers Unity
Alone Can Win the
Demands

DETROIT, Feb. 1O.--Under
the banner of support" for
the strike struggles Of the su-
to workers now on here, certain
elements are desperately seek
ing to head the strike in order
to behead it. The militant
leadership of the Auto Work
ers Union is not al all to the liking
Of the bosses and their YefofnIst
agents in the labor movement. That
militant leadership already In the
early stages of the strike movement
lead the workers to partial victories
in several departments of the Briggs
plants, and in the successful organi-
cation of 1000 workers in the Motor
Products Co., plant. That leadership
is disproving the lies Of the labor re-
reformists that IL is impossible TO con-
duct successful strike struggles with
capitalism In the throes Of its world
crisis.
An Old Cry.
The reforinist elements are raising
such questions as outsiders" on the
picket line. BY outsiders they mean
the unemployed masses who. under
the leadership of the Unemployed
Councils, are militantiy supporting
the strikers and defeating the efforts
of the bosses to enlist the unemployed
workers to scab on the strikers. This
issue was first raised by the leaders
of the I.W.W. II was picked up by
Norman Thomas and other leaders
Of the Socialist Party, the leaders OF
the Proletsriaa Party, Frank x. Mar
tel and other leaders OF the Detroit
Federation OF Labor, all joining in
forging IL into weapon for the bos-
ses. This weapon was Immediately
seized upon by Father Coughlin, by
Mayor Murphy and his police TO at
tack the unity of the unemployed
with the strikers. This effort has
been defeated by the correct policy
of the Auto Workers Union, sup
ported by the Unemployed Councils,
of rallying the unemployed workers
and the strikers in joint struggle
against the bosses wage cut and star
Walton program.
Try New Splits.
Defeated in other attempts to
break the strike, the retor1iist lead
ers attempt to split the workers by
other means, injecting religious and
political questions, raising the issue
of Communist leadership In the strike
affording the government with pre-
text to intervene in defense Of the
/ interests of the auto bosses. The
strikers will also defeat these new
manouyers by the reforlnist leaders.
/ The issue in the strike is not Com
munism, but the fight against wage
cuts and starvation, for better con-
| ditions.
ALL. Members Support Strike.
That the rank and file of the A,
F. of L. are standing with the strikers,
despite the efforts OF their leaders
to betray the strike, is shown in the
action of the membership of an A..
F. L. plumbers union In forcing their
business agent to recall an order
sending plumbers to work at hotel
which the Briggs bosses had estab-
lished for their scabs.
Negro and White Unite.
The refornist leaders also attempt
to split the strikers along racial
lines, to smash the splendid solidarity
of Negro and white strikers. This
attempt is lead especially by the Me-
gro reforrnist leaders who urge the
Negro strikers to return TO work, as
surfing them full police protection.
telling them that their white fellow
workers, and not the wage cutting
Jim Grow bosses, are their enemies.
At the same time, the labor REFORM