The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-15

can be seen In the announcement already made by
the Pittsburgh Mayor McNsir that picketng will
be forbidden.
THE issues OK the struggle are becoming clearer
L every day. It is against the Roosevelt N. R. A.
program, which in one year has intensified the
misery and hunger Of the workers has slashed
their real wages in the face Of the pitiless rise
in the costs of daily necessites-t is against this
whole N. R. A hunger program that the workers
are rising in militant strike struggles.
The right to organize their own unions for
increased wages to fight the murderOus costs of
living, for improvement in the inhuman slave
conditions in the mills-this is the program the
workers put forward against the wage-cutting,
company union program Of the employers.
THE entire working class of the country must i'm
medately join forces to beat back the assault
Of the Steel Trust. For they all, in the A. F Of
L. unions, in the TUUL, in the independent
unions, and among the morganized, all face the
same attack of the Wall Street capitalist class
grinding the masses for more profits
What are the tasks that must be Immediately
attacked with full energy?
u This united front can and must be developed
in the first place in every mine mill and factory
by the building Of joint action committees shop
committees STRIKE COMMITTEES IN THE FAC
TORIES. This united front must take the form
OF unity of action Of the local organizations of the
various trade unions-A. F. of L., TU.UL, hide
pendent, in the various industries. 1t should take
the form of united action committees of the central
bodies of the respective trade union centers in the
various cities and towns.
q The workers organized in the A. F. Of L.
unions must demand Of the A F. of L. leaders from
top to bottom not only an open stand on these
burning issues in the labor movement but definite
and immediate action.
81 They must demand that the A. F. Of L.
Council and the Executive Board of the unions
shall mobilize all the forces and resources for the
support of the steel workers struggle for the
support of the longshoremen's strike for support
to all workers now on strike or preparing for a
strike. WE MUST DEMAND THAT THE A. F.
OF L. LEADERS WITHDRAW FROM ALL THE
N.R.A. BOARDS and carry on a struggle against
these instruments of the employers They must
demand that the A. F. of L. treasures be placed
at the disposal of the workers in their struggle
The unions are not the property of few leaders
They were built through the blood and sacrifice
Of the workers.
a Nor must the workers wait until the leaders
act. The fight is on. All delay is costly. Every
where there must be organized the fighting COM
mittees of the workers the united front basis
Our aim must be to unite the workers in every
locality, to develop solidarity action of the workers
in support of all those on strike Every effort
must be made to extend the movement from each
industry and in each locality into broader move
ments embracing whole industries and many centers
Only in this way can meet successfully the
mobilization of the forces of the enemy.
81 The Communists and all revolutionary trade
unionistS who are in the A. F. of L. oppostions
independent unions or T.U.UL unions must take
the lead in organizing this struggle in forging the
united front of the workers
s. In the first place this activity must take the
form OF all support to the steel workers No matter
what the decisions Of the convention no matter
how much the A. F. of L. leaders may sabotage
the strike of the steel workers, the revolutionary
forces must proceed to cement the fighting united
front OF the steel workers, organize the struggles
OF the steel workers mill by mill building the
united committees of the workers in the mills
y The auto workers. railroad workers and min
ers especially, must everywhere be modified in
support of the developing struggle of the steel
workers These workers who suffer from the same
evils OF company unions, company town terror
compulsory arbitration who have been tricked and
betrayed must in the fight of the steel workers
through solidarity and joint struggle help to give
blow to the attacks of the bosses and take a
stride forward in the fight for the needs and the
rights Of labor.