The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-28
ALL. Rank and File
Committee In Call
For Toledo Support

A.
Of L. treasury amassed out of the
dimes and pennies of the workers
for the use of the strikers? Where
are they when the workers are be- {
ing shot down in cold blood on the
picket line?
These leaders" are not on our
side They have shown this again
and again. They side with the
bosses against us. Have they not
told us to rely on the N. r. A. and
not to strike? Have they not
preached to us to rely on arbitra-
ton? And what did the Toledo
strikers get through arbitration?
The Toledo workers first went on
strike last February. They went
back to work with the promise that
they would get justice through
arbitration. What is the result?
1t is the same as what happened
to the Weirton steel workers and
all others who were trapped by the
A. F. L. leaders into arbitration.
Have not the A. F. L. leaders.
Green, Collins, Lewis, and the rest
of them helped the bosses to bring
IN the company unions? Did they
no. approve the automobile code
with the Infamous merit clause
which means the open shop? They
cid this as members of the labor
advisory board" of the N. R. A.
Did they not accept the Presidents
auto agreement which again openly
legalized the company unions? Did
they not help the auto bosses break
the strikes Of the auto workers.
Did they not agitate for the Wagner
Bill which means a law against
strikes and for compulsory arbitra-
ton?
They have done everything pos
Sible to try to demoralize our
ranks to help the bosses defeat
us one section after another so
that now the bosses are brazen
enough TO open the fight against
all organized labor to try to smash
all unions to force upon US their
fascist company unions.
Workers Fighting Over Heads of
Leaders
But new Gay has dawned.
Everywhere the A. F. of L. mem
bership is fighting in spite of the
treachery of the leaders, is fight
ing over the heads of the leaders.
These fights show how much vitality
there is in the labo1 movement. The
| $4,000 leaders could not crush the
fghting spirit Of labor. The bat
ties now raging also show that there
are leaders among the workers COM
ing forward who carry on a militant
battle for labor.
Fellow members of the A. F.
of L. unions: We call upon you
to follow the example of the
Toledo workers, the Minneapolis
workers, the West Coast long
shoremen who are fighting over
the heads of the Greens, Collins,
Iohins, and Ryans, and Hutche-
sons.
Take possession of your local
unions. Elect the most militant
and honest workers as your
spokesman and leaders. Clean
house. Use your organizations for
what we built them - to fight
| against the bosses. Too long have
cur organizations been used BY
these well-paid bureaucrats who
brought us only defeat and be-
! trayal.
Rally to the support of the
! Toledo strikers. Protest the MUIR
derOus attacks on the strikers.
Demand the withdrawal of the
military and police from the strike
area. Demand the right of the
workers to picket.
Send resolutions of protest
! through your local unions to the
F! a. F. of L. Council and your Inter-
national Unions demanding that all
forces Of the organization be mcbi-
LIED to fight against the bosses at
! tackS. Demand that the big treas
urics be used for the benefit of the
strikers.
Organize solidarity meetings. Join
J in denonstra tons, protest strikes
/ against the murderous terror, for
/ the right to organize. against COM
pany unions, for the right to strike.
to picket. against compulsory arbi-
| tration.
Forge the unity of labor.
Fight for better conditions, for
higher wages for the right to or
ganize, against company unions,
in your own shop, in your own
industry.
Forward to a strong and mill
tant labor movement that will
meet the bosses challenge and
bring victory to labor.
Long live the solidarity OF
/ Labor.
A. T. of L. Trade Union Com
nittee for Unemployment In
snrsnce and Relief. L. WEIN-
STOCK, Secretary.