The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
A Call to Socialist and
ALL. Workers

10 particularly W SOCldIlSI al " WOlA-
L ers and members of the A. F. of L. locals
that we wish to address this editorial.
We wish to discuss with these class
brothers of ours the meaning of what is
going on in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
For what is happening there is a serious threat
to the weekly pay envelope and the general well
fare Of every worker and workers family in the
country.
In this fashionable resort, 80 of the countrys
leading Wall Street industrialists are now meet
ing in secret session. These meetings are an
tension of the recent meetings of the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers and the q. 8. Chamber
Of Commerce both together representing the big
gest and most reactionary industrial employers in
the country.
And though they are meeting in secret these in
dustrial capitalists make secret as to what they
are after.
AS reported in yesterdays press, they are work
ing out few broad principles upon which the en-
tire business world unite and set up an Or
ganization to make the weight of business una
nimity more effectively felt in the government
than has been possible since Roosevelt came into
power"
Big business in short is working for united
front to defend its class interests with the aid of
Roosevelt and Congress.
And what is it that are uniting on? The press
yesterday gave us the answer: ION the reshaping
of the NRA. codes and the development of business
unanfmity on labor laws"
This is blunt enough. It is in line with the pro-
gram adopted by the big industralists Congress Of
American Industry in New York two weeks ago.
In brief it means that the biggest capitalist
ployers are organizing on a program whose basis
is the more open, direct control of the NR.A codes
by the monopolies and smashing offensive against
1o11Oy ooI oil tta vyoOp cta nd
union conditions which it has wrung from the bosses
by long struggle.
AND this is not some distant program. 1t is
n planned for immediate execution by Roosevelt and
Congress in January.
What will this mean to Socialist and A. F. OF
L. workers?
1t will mean wage cuts. 1t will mean longer
hours and more speed-up. 1t will mean an open
shop drive that will try to smash the unions and
union conditions in the factories.
It will mean terrorism against pickets and
strikes 1t will mean the introduction of stretch
out on a scale never seen before, with an end of
all workers welfare provisions won through strikes
1t will mean more hunger more exploitation, more
oppression. That is only too plain.
COCIALIST and A. F. of L. workers. What are
we going to do about this sinister united front
Of the employers, which menaces us and our
families?
Shall follow the policies of the Socialist Party
and A. F. of L. leadership, which continue to split
the ranks of the workers with reactionary Red
batting" drives in the unions and refusals to form
united front agreements with the Communist
Party?
Or shall we meet the challenge of the united
front of the employers with our own class united
front?
The capitalists meeting in their conventions
We, the working class, have Congress for
Social and Unemployment Insurance to meet in
Washington Jan. to Z. This Congress can become
the weapon with which we begin our counter-offen-
sive against the new plans of the Bosses They are
organizing their wage-cutting, union-Smashng drive
Let organize working class drive for the 30
hour week, for cash relief, for Federal unemploy-
ment insurance, to be paid by the government and
the bosses, for the right to organize and picket.
Socialist and A. F, of L. workers. Let us defend
our working class organizations, unions and
our mass organizations against the united front
of the bosses.
Our common interests bind us together. Our
families suffer alike from the exploitation and op-
preston of the employers
Why then should there be any delay in welding
our united front in defense of our immediate class
interests?
Whatever our differences on other questions on
the immediate vital question of wages defense of
trade unions and the right to strike on relief and
unemployment insurance we must be united
Support the Congress for Social and Unemploy-
ment insurance. Answer the new offensive of the
employers Build the united front!