The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-15

OF IL. NU.IsWJ OIIlClalSs Inc ElOY6
workers remained on strike, in OPP
position TO orders to return to work
issued by their own officials and
by the Labor Board. The Alabama
coal miners remained out, in oppo-
si.ion to a wage scale decreed by
Roosevelt. The Alabama ore miners
are striking directly against wage
decisions Of the Labor Board. The
Iongshoremen struck over the head
Of j. Ryan, the A. F. Of L. leader
In the longshoremen's union, and
against wage scales which the La
Dor Board tried TO enforce on them.
The DemagOgy of Roosevelt
Has Failed to Check the Strike
Wave Of the Workers.
They are militantly striking In
key, war industries, against the rul-
ings Of the Labor Board and the A,
F. Of L. officials. This demagogy,
worn thin, failing to check the
strikes Of the workers for better
wages and conditions and for recog-
milton, has been more and more
replaced by open fascist terror Of
the employers and the forces Of the
government.
Fascist Terror
In Alabama, murderoUs terror
RACES, particularly against the Ne
gro strikers. -Four ore miners, ons
Iongshoreman and one GOAL miner
have been murdered on Southern
picket lines. Picketing and meet
ings have been outlawed by vicious
court injunctions and by the
bayonet and gun.
In the steps toward fascism, the
Roosevelt government, as in the
auto industry, brings forward Off
cially the company union to help
smash strikes and real workers or
CARNATIONS, and insists on increased
government control of all trade
unions. The Wagner Bill is mod
flied" to enable the free entrance
of company unions. And whether
the Wagner Bill Is allowed to die
in Congress or not, the Labor Board
proceeds with the intent and pro-
gram of the Wagner disputes" bill
to outlaw strikes, to enforce COM
pulsory arbitration on the workers,
thus robbing them Of their demands.
to smash the workers organizations
and build company unions. and to
increase the open, fascist terror
against the workers.
Need Organization
The workers are striking Mill
family. But many of the strikes are
being sold out and defeated, because
Of the lack Of organization Of the
rank and file (Amoskeag, oil, glove,
auto, etc.. The imperative need Of
! the moment is rank and file organ
ization. The rank and file inside the
A. F. of L., to win their demands.
must take the strikes into their own
hands. Rank and file oppositions
should be quickly organized in every
A. F. of L. union The demands
of the rank and file can be won
with little more organization. The
conducting of the strikes with broad
elected strike committees, with mass
picketing and refusal to submit to
compulsory arbitration of the Labor
Boards, or impartial agents Of
the employers; these demands of
the rank and file must at once be
crystallized by the immediate or
ganization of rank and file OPPOSE
tons in all A. F. L. and other re-
formist unions.
The militant unions affiliated with
the Trade Union Unity League, as
well as militant independent unions,
are winning strikes and defeating
the strikebreaking attempts of the
N. r. A. boards and A. F. Of L. of
f1cials through their militant poll
cies. The Marine Workers Indus
trial Union has won numerous ship
crew strikes on the basis Of the
united front and of broad, militant
rank and file conduct of the strikes.
The Aeronautical Workers Union Of
Buffalo, an A. F. Of L. federal local
with militant leadership has
so far defeated all strikebreaking
attempts of the Labor Board by
means of their splendid solidarity,
their broad strike leadership and
militant mass picketing.
The Trade Union Unity League
follows the program of the broadest
united front of all the workers, re-
gardless of what union, or whether
unorganized In the present long
shore strike the Marine Workers
Industrial Union has called for the
broad unity Of all marine workers
in support Of the strike as the only
means of defeating the treachery Of
Ryan and the Labor Board.
The most pressing and important
task of every Communist, and Of all
militant workers at the present mo-
ment. is to give leadership and di-
rection to the wave Of strikes Only
through organizing this broad
united front Of the strikers can the
Communists give that leadership
which is essential if the strikers are
to win their demands.
It is q burning necessity for all
Communists and all fighting work
ers to take these strikes into their
own hands, to take the initiative In
at once organizing, in every strike.
the rank and file oppositions, to
demand and elect broad strike COM
mittees, to organize militant mass
picketing over the heads of the A.
F. Of L. leadership. Only in this
manner can the strikes be bread
ened, the struggle deepened and the
workers win their demands. 1t is
the task of the Communists to raise
the revolutionary consciousness of
the workers, to increase the under
standing of the strike-breaking role
Of the government, in order TO de-
feat betrayals.
The broadeSt united front cam
paign must without delay be Or
ganized by the Communists to de-
feat the fascist attacks of the
Poosevelt government IN the Strik