The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-25
Betrayal Guilt
Rests on A F L
Top Leaders
Workers Ready to Fight
While Chiefs Planned
Betrayal
C.P. GAVE WARNING
Socialist Party Partner
Through Endorsement
of ALL. Policies

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by Harry Bridges and other mill
tant left-wing leaders, continue to
resist efforts Of the N. R. A. and
reactionary union heads to arbi-
trate their strike and their de-
mands out of existence, government
mediators and A. F. of L. officials
were tightening the ring which led
to the calling off of the general
strike and by which they are try
ing to force the longshoremen to
return to work defeated.
More than 500 Communists and
other militant workers who played
a leading role in the general strike
are in Jail, and the local police,
thug and troop terror has not yet
abated. The press continues to
call for the blood of the workers
leaders.
Why Was Strike Called Off?
The question almost every worker
is asking himself today is: why
was the San Francisco general
strike called off 50 quickly?"
Was it because the workers had
not responded to the general strike
call? Of course not. The mass re-
Spouse to the general strike was
the greatest and most enthusiastic
ever seen in any strike. This is ad-
mitted by friend and foe alike.
Was the general strike called off
because the workers refused to
fightP This, too, is untrue The
glory of the San Francisco general
strike lies precisely in the unsur-
passed self-sacrifice and deter
mination of the workers to carry
on the struggle in the face Of the
civil war declared upon them by
the bosses and the government, and
in spite of the murder, shooting
and gassing of workers by the
armed forces of the capitalists. The
workers were well aware of what
they would be faced with in the
general strike. They decided the
same sacrifice was necessary to
gain victory in the marine strike.
A. F. of L. Top Leaders Guilty
Then who called off the general
strike, and why? Not the workers,
but the strike breaking American
Federation Of Labor top leaders.
The calling off of the strike was
a deliberate betrayal. This treach-
cry was pre-arranged and planned
by the Vandeleurs and the other
misleaders. 1t was as much as ad-
mitted the other day by Joseph P.
Ryan, president of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Association,
in his report to the Central Trades
and Labor Council of Greater New
York.
What the bosses and government
could not do with bullets, gas
bombs and jails, they accomplished
through the so-called labor lead
ers.
C. P. Exposes Treachery
This is why the Communist Party
wages so incorporating Strug-
gle against these treacherous lead
ers. Not to do this, as experience
has shown, actually means to per-
nit the capitalist enemy to de-
moralize the workers from within
and to render them helpless be-
fore its onslaught. Not to drive out
these fake leaders, not to strip them
of their power by placing the lead
ership in the hands of militant and
honest fighters of the workers them
selves, means predetermined defeat
no matter how militantly the work
ers fight and how much they sacri-
fee in the struggle.
The leaders of the Socialist Party
and the A. F. of L. say that by do
ing this the Communist Party is
sowing diScord and creating divi-
sions in the workers ranks. To fight
the betrayers of labor is not divid-
ing the workers. 1t is only dividing
the workers from the capitalist
agents in their own ranks, and unit
ing them to defeat the bosses and
assure their victory.
Role of the Socialist Party
However, the imperative necessity
of uncompromising struggle against
the labor lieutenants of the capt.
taliSt class is not only confined to
the leaders of the A. F. of L. When
the Socialist Party at its recent De-
troit convention unanimously en-
dorsed the policies of the A. F. of
L., they became partners to this
great betrayal
When A. j. Music and the Ameri-
can Workers Party advise the work
ers to "let the leaders expose them
selves" it actually means that the
workers must not resist the be-
trsyals of their strikebreaking lead
ers.
The misleaders of labor Of the
A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party
are precisely the instruments upon
whom capitalism leans for mass
support and the establishment of
its mass base, without which its rule
would be impossible.
1t would have been impossible for
the Roosevelt government to carry
through the MIRA. without the sup
port OF the a. +. OF l.. 1t was the
A. F. of L. leaders who tried to con
vince the American workers that
the MIRA. gives them the legal
right to organize, that the govern
ment is now ION the side of the
people" and that they should, there
fore. support it. 1t was the Social
ist Party which told the workers
that the MIRA. is a 'step to So
cialism" and that it "does away
with the old-time and destructive
capitalism" Because of this. it
urged the workers to support it.
: The uncompromising struggle
against the misleaders of labor is
therefore of first Importance. With
out eliminating these leaders the
workers will be betrayed in. all their
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