The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-25

, leaderShips.
These great struggles are guaran-
tees of the militancy, the initiative
and the inherent revolutionary con-
seriousness of the American working
class. That, I think, very briefly Is
the main lesson of this tremendous
strike movement that we have in
the United States. Why? Because
this strike movement is taking place
in the face of the best organized
and most ambitious offensive ever
launched by the American ruling
class and its government-an often
Sive designed to maintain what there
was of docility in the American
working class and to create and pre-
serve a cowed and subservient Amer
lean working class.
We can say today, comrades, on
the concrete evidences of these ire
mendous mass struggles that in this
sector the American ruling class has
failed. The struggles in the past
six months, the living irresistible
logic Of the class struggle has proved
in the face of all doubters that the
American working class is revolu-
tionary class and that it has reserves
OF militancy and initiative that even
we have failed to plumb and estimate
correctly.
Now something about the line Of
the American Federation Of Labor,
The American Federation of Labor
at its 53rd Annual Conference was.
SO far as the leadership was con-
cerned, incorporated into the mach
lnery of the American imperialist
government in every respect, except
that no formal motion was passed
that said this. But actually this is
what happened
Question arise from this-very
practical questions.
The steel trust owners, the auto
barons, and the Spokesman Of the
so-called Captive" mines have gone
to the Roosevelt administration and
stated in effect. 1--WE were right, we
told you to begin with that you can
not proceed as you could during tbs
war, when there was no Communist
Party in this country; that to allow
even these takers to organize work
ers in the basic sectors of American
industry is to lay the basis for the
organization of the revolutionary
forces that the Communist Party In
this country will get"
They learned their lesson from
Weirton, Ambridge, and McKeesport
and every other place where the
workers were organized; in no matter
what the organization, they struck.
The conception of these new con-
tingents of workers of a union or
ganization is that it is something by
which you get better wages, and
working conditions; something that
organizes you and leads you in strug-
gle. That is the thing. And this
cuts straight across the class COL
Liberation line of the leadership of
the Wolmans, the Tugwells and of
all of those other S. P. and vulgar
economists in high pests in the N.
r. A. administration. And, of course,
the owners of steel and coal are
correct.
They are correct. Such a line,
such a policy, sucn tactics could have
been carried through before the War,
while there was no Communist Party,
but it cannot be carried through now
without the greatest resistance. So
What do we see now? Read the
daily press. That is all you have
to do. Roosevelt, Pinchot, Johnson.
are demanding the end of these
strikes. There is going to be more
terror and less demagogy. OF course,
there will be a certain amount of
demagogy. The crushing of strikes
by treachery and terror is to be in
the interests of national recovery.
There will be more emphasis on CO.
operation, company unions, merit
clauses and peace in industry" But
workers will understand this dema-
gogy.
Ito be continuedl