The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-22

have the right 10 bargain collectively through repre-
sentatves of their choosing, and shall be free
from the interference, restraint or coercion Of en-
poyers of labor, their agents" actually helped to
smash the right of the workers to organize and aided
the bosses in building company unions.
From the start, General johnson declared "collec-
tive bargaining" l. formulating codes out After
the codes were passed the MIRA and the A F. Of l.
officials broke strikes the promise OF giving the
workers the right TO elect representatives Of their own
choosing. The bosses took this SIS means OF forcing
company unions
Then the most criminal act Of all, was that COM
mitted by William Green. John L. Lewis Sidney Hill
man. and other A. 2. of L. leaders On the National
Labor Board when they approved the open shop
merit clause" in the auto code.
This gave all the bosses the right TO hIre and IRE
workers on the basis of individual merit regardless
OF what organization they belonged to- From the
very beginning the auto bosses declared this meant
the open shop, and the organization Of company
unions.
powerful instrument of the bosses sgainst the workers
It has lowered living standards. It has stimulated
company unionisrn. 1t has broken strikes It has
created bureaucracy Of the government, supported
by the A. r. Of l. leadership TO prevent and smash
strikes.
The A. p. OF L. o6acdsldom Is tied % with the
apparatus OF the employers serving the employers
through the MIRA. program.
These developments confront the workers with the
need for carrying through two basic tasks; u To
develop the clearest and shapest opposition movement
TO the seout policies of the A. f. of L. bureaucrats
of the A. r Of L. within the A. r. of L.; q To tear
the workers away from the company unions and or
ganize them into fighting unions controlled by the
workers themselves.
IN CARRYING through these tasks, the principle OF
the united front-the unihcation OF all workers IN
at{aOaa Z
unions, company unions, unorgsnised workers welD
must be achieved.
The policy of the militant workers must be 10
break down all barriers that now divide them from
the other workers; and they must prove in practice
to the other workers that we stand for such unin-
cation In struggle for the improvement Of the work.
ers' conditions.
To smash down the growth Of company unionisu1,
to expose the strike breaking role of the r. Of L.
leaders within the MIRA, we need O much more
energetic drive ON the part Of all Communists and
militant trade unionists in developing rank and file
opposition groups in the A. r. Of L.
These opposition groups must become powerful
levers fighting against the employers policy repre-
sented by the program Of the A. r. Of L. officials
The opposition groups, on the basis Of the united
front, must develop demands of the workers.
m THOSE hundreds of plants where company ursons
have been established, the task Of organizing the
workers becomes greater than ever before In most
OF these industries the workers have gone through
struggles in which they have been betrayed By the
A. F. Of L. leaders through N.R.A. promises. The
situation in these plants is more favorable than
ever before for organization and struggle
These workers have lived through the NR.A dis
illusionment Their conditions have been made worse
They are under the grasp Of the yellow dog" COM
pany unions. In these shops we must build shop and
department committees concretely exposing the par
ticular company union the workers working under
We have the task of developing program Of struggle
on the basis of demands drawn up by the workers,
discussed by them, and popularized throughout the
shop Only in this way can we wreck the company
unions and prepare struggles to win organization and
advances by the workers themselves In all of these
tasks the Trade Union Unity League plays the leading
role, with the Communists at the head