The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-13
Make It Stick


A F. Of l. bureaucrats to conyoke special convention
to consider strike for the 3O-hou week without re-
duction in pay we can hear the rumblngs Of mass
discomfort down below among the textile workers
Not so long before the MA. was passed William
Green himself made similar bluster. Nothing came
Of It, as the A r of L. ofncialdom wanted action
from the workers.
The UTw. leaders now raise the question again.
why do they raise it at this time? NfacNIahon and his
gang heading the union the first to enter into
code negotiations resulting in the cotton textile code
that set nseraby low wages for the workers. Now the
MIRA. is being exposed to the textile workers as a
powerful lever to drive down their standard Of living,
and to shove tens Of thousands into unemployment.
The ur.w. leaders say they favor strike Very well.
Every worker anxious to obtain the 30hor week with
out reduction in pay should Immediately raise the is
sue Of organization and action to achieve this END
The National Textile workers Union should i'm
mediately take up this proposal and propose to the
UTwy through locals well as to all bodies OF the
organization joint action to prepare and organize the
strike for the sOhour week without reduction in pay.
Certainly such an issue must receive the broadest
support OF workers 1t offers the basis for the widest
united 'front.' in which every worker can become an &C
tive force to initiate the powerful struggle necessary
to achieve this end.
THE lack of sincerity, the duplicity of the U.T.W
leaders, their playing with phrases is shown by the
fact that they do not make this proposal to all work
ers organizations Instead they appeal to Green, Lewis
wol Morrison, HiIIman & Co, to call special con-
vention of the very same beaucrats who Just recently
ers. The U.TW. leaders know that this convention
viii rot be called Even if 1t is called they know it
VIII be the graveyard Of the demand for general
strike to achieve the 30-hour week, without reduction
in pay, unless a powerful united front movement
within the A F. Of L. among the rank and file forces
through actions The very proposal to the A F. Of L.
bureaucracy to take this action is positive proof that
the UTW leaders are phrase nongers seeking to aay
the discomfort in their ranks by this pretense at
calling for radical action.
But the slogan is out. The cali for such a strike
Will receive the broadcast response among millions OF
organized and unorganized workers.
The revolutionary trade unions who first raised the
slogan for shorter week without reduction in pay,
who have been leading most deternnedly the strike
Tor higher wages lower hours and improved conditions,
should Immediately take steps to force this popular
mass demand through among the rank and file and
over the heads OF the U.TW. and other A. F. of L.
takers.
THE tasks OF the Communists the trade unions ana
in the shops is to develop real struggIe-just the
type Of struggle the U.TW and the A F. Of L. leaders
do not want-for the 30-hour week without reduction
in pay, and against the NRA. and for unemployment
insurance.
In appeal to the workers We must make some
facts clear that deliberately covered up by Green
and the U.TW. leaders.
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whole American workingclas It's counterpart. In
snflaton is Shooting prices skyward while the codes
Sasten wages down to starvation levels with the
chains of the bureaucrats and the government the
textile industry, johnson has permitted the bosses
cut production fire workers without any provision for
relief or unemployment insurance for those discharged
because of the MIA Those who now talk brave
about strike for the 30hour week without pay reduc-
tions the very that broke strikes Of the
workers during the past summer against the MIRA
The fight for the 30hour week, the face Of rising
living COSTS must also include fights for higher pay and
against the MA. Go which the A. F. of L. bureau
crazy is party) and must be the keystone for the
development Of partial united front struggles for
shorter hours and higher wages.
Hence they nov try to cover their treacheries by
this latest gesture.
I'VE MUST not permit them to shield themselves with
words play around with the conditions and lives
or the workers
We must call their bluff we must with all CUR
organization and energy bring this slogan to all work
ers-mobze for strike struggles to win the So-hour
week without reduction in pay We must make the
broadest proposals for the united front actually to
achieve this struggle.
To do this is the duty of all Communists in mobliz-
ing all sincere trade unonists for the real achievement
Of a united front struggle against the MIRA, for
shorter hours without reduction in pay and unempoy
nent insurance
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