The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-17

lied all of the middle class liberal
forces, the officials of the A. F, of L.
and those manufacturers, especially
in the textile industry. whose plants
have the modern equipment they be-
lieVe sufficient to put their COMPETE
tors out Of business, providing ma
tional thirty-hour work week law
would be passed
The strategy of the A. F. of L. Off
cialdom in support Of the Black Bill
is very plain and simple. 1t is to put
this Black Bill with its shorter work
week, no prohibition against wage
cuts and no stipulation as to the
hours of work in any one day-a leg
alization of the share the work plan
and the stagger system as the TUUL
and the Communist Party has cor
rectly characterized it-before the
American workers as a substitute for
Unemployment Insurance and as a
way out Of the present crisis and
permanent mass unemployment
Hero of Alabama Landlords.
Senator Black, coming from Ala
bama, the state made notorious
throughout the world for its organ
lied murder drive against the Negro
masses (the Scottsboro case, the
TallapooSa atrocities against Negro
share croppers) overnight has be-
come the hero of the A. F. OF L. off,
cialdom.
President Green, speaking for the
Executive Council of the A F. of L.
endorsed the Black Bill without re-
observation-disclosures speaking off the
record to newspaper correspondents,
many prominent heads Of A. F. of L..
Unions characterized the bill as "just
another share the work plan"
Labor" the official publication of
the Sixteen Standard Railway Or
CARNATIONS, in its issue of January
II devotes almost half of its first
page to an indirect reply to the tes-
tinony of William F. Dunno and
Lewis Weinstock representing the
TUUL and the A. F. of L. Rank and
File Committee for Unemployment
Insurance and Relief respectively,
before the Senate Subcommittee on
the Black Bill.
Can't Stop Mass Movement.
American Federation of Labor Of
hcialdom and the leadership of the
Railway Brotherhood Union are de-
finitely on the defensive. The dema-
gogic program for Unemployment
Insurance by separate states, as
weapon for the destruction of the
national movement on mass scale
for compulsory Federal Unemploy-
ment Insurance at the expense of the
Government and Employers, has no5
had the results expected by the A.
F. of L. burocratS and their masters
in the two big parties OF American
capitalism. The National Hunger
March to Washington, occurring al
ter the A. F. of L. Convention,
showed in the most positive and de-
cisiVe fashion that the A. F. Of L.
officialdom not only does not lead the
fight for Unemployment Insurance
but cannot check the ever growing
mass movement for Federal Unem-
plOyment Insurance.
A. F. of L. officialdom has been
compelled to shift the direction OF
its attack. 1t now concentrates on
the issue of the shorter work day and
work week as a method Of diverting
the attention of the toiling section
of the population from the main is
sue of compulsory Federal Unem-
ployment Insurance. In pursuit OF
this objective, quite obviously Sc
lected for it by the big bankers and
industrial lords, the A. F. of L. Buro-
Gratis are nlobilizing and cooperating
with certain groups of nanufactur-
ers.
sight for the Gods"
1t is a sight for the gods to see
before the Senate Sub
Committee manufacturers who for
years have fought unionization, who
have paid starvation wages, who have
put in force the most ruthless meth
DDS of Speed-up. attempting to pose
as great humanitarians and philan-
5hrcpists, whose only desire is to make
better for the American
class.
But not only has the A. F. Of L.
rallied a number of star
vatiAs wage employers for the Black
Bill, it has also recruited supporters
from the ranks Of engineering So
cieties such as Hyman Aaron, counsel
for the Associated Engineering So !
cieties composed of the Society of
Electrical Engineers, American Asso
citation OF Civil Engineers, American |
Mining Institute and the Society of |
Engineers. With I'M
animity obviously resulting from close
with the A. F. of L. Of
ficialdom and demagogues like Sem
ator Black, the latest white hope from |
The lack Belt, these spokesman for |
and engineers solemn
" declare that the future of Amer
can civilization depends upon the
Of the Black Bill or similar
measures.
New Economic Expert"
Senator Black himself suddenly has
become an expert in economics. Com
ng from Alabama, a state which |
'anks second to Mississippi in the
ow cultural level of its politicians
md government leaders" Black, bull
yarked by the assistance Of the Re-
earch Bureau of the A. F. Of l.. Ex-
,cutive Council, speaks over the ra-
lilo in a national hook-up and uses
phrases calculated to entrance the |
hungry millions of American work
RS and farmers and enlist them in
'uppceS of his legalized share the |
work scheme as a way out of the
:risis.