The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-05
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1884
Support the TeVenty>Four
Hour Strike

DANK and file delegates have introduced
IL into the national convention of the
American Federation Of Labor resolution
for the calling by the A. F. of L., of gen.
eral strike of twenty-four hours, the first
week in January in order to bring pressure for the
passage of the Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill.
William Green has already shown where he
stands on this issue In his Executive CounclIs
report, he comes out against any form OF Federal
unemployment insurance Green takes the same
stand on this question as the employers and the
Roosevelt government that the Workers Bill is
Unconstitutional" He supports the Wagner-Lewis
bill which is not an unemployment insurance bill,
and does not apply to any totally unemployed
worker.
The rank and file of the American Federation
of Labor have a different opinion. They demand
that President Roosevelt shall keep his campaign
promises to grant unemployment insurance to six
teen million jobless workers
THE resolutions introduced into the American
1 Federation of Labor convention for passage of
the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, the
only bill brought to Congress which applies to all
the unemployed, reflect the will of several mil
lion workers in the United States. Such Inter
national "a. F. of L. unions, the United
Textile Union the AmaIgamated Association of
Iron Steel and Tin Workers, the Nine Mill and
Sr1eIter Workers, well thousands of local
unions and many central bodies, have demanded
the passage of the Workers Bill.
general strike of "a hours duration in Janu-
airy would go a long way toward forcing the Fed
eraI Government to redeem its pledges of security
for the unemployed.
IN the basis Of the proposals of the Trade Union
v Unity League for achieving trade union unity
around a fighting, class struggle program, the work.
ers can win unemployment insurance
The resolutions of the rank and file brought into
the San Francisco convention reflect the wave of
militancy which has swept the A. F. of L. local
unions. The workers in the A. F. of L. are deter
mined to fight against the attacks of the employers,
against the decisions of the NRA boards and of
Roosevelt. They are determined to fight against
the company union, for their elementary right to
organize and strike, and for decent wages and con-
ditons.
The growing rank and file opposition inside the
A. F. of L. has had enough of Green's strikebreak-
ing policies his sell-outs, his refusal to organize
fight for their demands They have had enough
of Green's cooperation with the employers and the
Roosevelt government. They are fed up with Green's
refusal to fight for the demands of the unemployed
They are through with his splitting, Red scare"
tactics, with his of police against militant work
ers
Rank and file oppositions should be built in
every A. F. of L. local union the basis of a fight
for the program embodied in the resolutions in
troduced into the national convention by the mill
tant rank and file
The rank and file, through organizing itself
soldly in every local union can clean out the A. F.
Of L. seI-out artists of the Green and German
stripe, and lead real fight for the workers de-
mands.