The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-10
Strikes in Auto Coal Show Rising Struggles Against n K
Why 5000 Workers Are
Striking in Wisconsin
Auto and Tractor Plants

less the rank and file takes the
leadership into its own hands. The
officials are repeating the same
things as in the Kenosha Nash
strike. There is no broad strike
committee. The executive commit
tee. composed Of seven men plus
a couple Of officials from the Wis
consin Federation Of Labor, is con-
Frc-in0 this strike. They refuse
to call out on strike the pattern
~ l5e-s, TIE tool and die makers,
the hremen, and the watchmen.
The officials claim that these men
should not belong to the federal
local and refused to permit them to
Join.
The police are making all efforts
to break the strike. They refused
to permit the men to picket past
the main gate. When a committee
of workers and union leaders visited
city attorney. Max Rasl1in, a Soci-
alist, he made the following state
ment
'The men have no right fOrcibly
to keep any person or vehicle
from entering or leaving the
grounds, and let's not sacrifice
peace to police record. If there
are iafrsetiOnS of the law, the
police should make arrests"
This strike also teaches the
workers that the Socialist public
officials are not their friends, but
as in the past, are under the cover
Of law protecting the interests of
the corporations. The Communist
Party. on the other hand, tells the
men that, regardless Of the legal
restrictions about blocking traffic,
in interfering with scabs, ETC.. it is
the duty Of the strikers to mobilize
as many workers as possible to
throw a mass picket line around
the plant, and through militant ac-
ton prevent the strike breakers
from taking their jobs
In Racine. where we have four
STRIFE on ut the present tine-the
most important Of which are the
F7~'1 71t0 strike end the Case
tractor strike-the A. F. of L. off,
cialdom is acting in a similar
manner Instead Of modifying the
workers for victory they are work
ing hand in hand with the police
department and the bosses to hunt
for Communists and TO break the
unity Of the workers on the picket
line.
In all Of these strikes the chances
for victory are great, providing the
strikers organize themselves. picket
militantly, and do not permit the
A. F. L. leadership to trick them
into arbitration and compel them
to go into the plant before they
win anything, as was the case in
Nash. The Communist Party
warns the workers about these
agents Of the capitalist class. who
have wormed their way into the
labor movement.
In two weeks time. there will
take place elections for city Of
noes IN Kenosha and Racine. The
workers in all Of these strikes must
learn through experience who are
their friends, who are their enemies.
The only working class Party is the
Communist Party, and the strikers
should throw their support behind
this workers Party, that fights not
only for better conditions in the
shop, but also for the emancipat-
ing Of the working class from capt.
tahst wage slavery. The workers
in the factory, as well as unem-
ployed, must disregard Mitchell
and the A. F. L. leaders who claim
that strikes have nothing to do with
the class struggle. Only through
the class struggle can the workers
hope to win anything. The action
Of the bosses and the police on the
picket line proves that there is a
class struggle and that the govern
ment is an instrument Of the CAPT
tahst class.