The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-05

has had a great effect. They were
outstanding figures. It showed
plenty Of us that it is surely in our
interest to be friendly with Negro
workers and fight jointly with
them. Now the only difference
there seems to be is that his skin is
black and mine is white, and it is
through no particular cleverness on
my part that I am white. As long
as We are workers we have to stick
together against the boss. When all
of us realize this, then 1 believe we
will be on the way to getting some
where in the labor movement.
Another thing is this citizenship
racket. Everyone had to be a citi-
zen to work in these plane plants.
This gave us all a 100 per cent
American feeling for a while, and
made us feel like we were a part
of this government, and that we
lived on a different planet than
foreign-born workers, which, Of
course, kept us from sympathizing
and uniting with them. This was
all to the bosses interest. But now
I think that is all it was for-so
that we would only think about the
glorious America, champion OF
Democracy, and continue building
planes for numbering by masses.
Because now we. see the company
will hire anyone so long as he will
rat, and there are darn few. And
they still try to keep us divided by
saying that now the foreigners are
the ones who are taking our Jobs,
when actually the percentage Of
non-citizens among the scabs is
only perhaps a half per cent. But
it is enough to show us one thing:
that the company is only 100 per
cent American and a fine flag
waver when it is in their interest
to be. And they will build war
planes for anyone, even to arm the
enemies of the U. S. A.
We should have sent leaflets
everywhere the first day they broke
up our famous picket line. II we
bring back a picket line four or
five times larger than anything we
have had, We sure won't be diseour-
aged and we'll soon win. The COM
pany can't build planes with pro-
fessional strike-breakers - it takes
skilled men. 1t took them seventeen
years to build up this force that is
striking for a living scale now and
one thing is shown-that it is the
boss who depends on labor for
everything not labor that depends
on the boss, as he would try to
make you believe all the time.
We have learned more in the last
two months than we have in many
long years before. We can see whose
government it Is now, and how it
is possible to stop a war if the
working class will only have sense
enough to stick together by that
time, which is not far off, and strike
instead of building war machinery
to blow up other workers whom we
have nothing against, or, as I said
before, which might even be used to
kill us ourselyes-for the company
doesn't care who buys. 1t is very
broadminded about that-it is so
patriotic and fond of America that
it will sell the equipment to murder
American workers to our rival coun-
tries. War is profitable thing for
them; but it is disease, Gripping,
binding, degenerating and killing
Tor the working class, whom they
send out to do the fighting while
they very periodically promise to
stay home and back them up with
all the bloody machinery they can
of course at small profits of 400
or 500 per cent, and So forth.
AN UNEMPLOYED ELEC-
TRICIAN WHO HELPED
THE AIRPLANE STRIKERS
TO PICKET.