The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-07

ing the bat between their teeth.
We've gone as far as we could to
prevent direct action. But the time
is coming when we are going 70 (
have TO let 60 the reins. I hate to /
contemplate it, but tell you it's
coming"
But the Communist Party is not 8
strike-breahng agency. Tt does not |
attempt to prevent the workers
from taking the bit between their /
teeth" and it does not hate TO con-
template" the heroic actions Of the
automobile workers against open
shop slavery and starvation The
Communist Party is the force that
leads the workers TO throw of cor
rupt leadership and to organize its
forces for nationwide fight
against the present strike breaking
drive Of the Roosevelt government.
0N the one hand lies the road to
v lower living standards, disruption
and destruction of the workers own
trade unions, the establishment OF
company unions, control by the EN-
ployers and the government, the
ruthless crushingout Of every liberty
of the American masses-the road
toward fascism and into the blood
bath of the second World War, as
slaves to the TeQgles, DuPonts, and
Swopes. This is the road that is
staked out by the Teagles, DuPonts,
and Swopes and Johnsons, and
obediantly followed by the Hillmans,
Greens, Wolls, and Lewis.
On the other hand is the road to
the workers way out of the econo-
mic crisis. The road of struggle
against the slave codes of the N. R.
A. against the strike breaking N. R.
A. itself, the struggle for the right
to organize, the right to strike, the
struggle for every penny of the
workers standards Of living-in fact
the struggle for the revolutionary
way out Of the crisis and to Social
ism!
THIS is the time for redoubled
1 energy, resourcefulness and mi
tiation on the part Of the whole
working class, the rank and file of
the American Federation Of Labor,
the rank and file workers of the
Socialist Party, the red trade unions
and militant minorities of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor unions, to-
gether with the Communist Party,
to advance rapidly all along the line,
forcing concession after concession
through united militant strike &C
ton. Every concrete question of
code wages, every small" question
Of hours and conditions in the fac
tories and mines, every question Of
kick back every grievance of the
unemployed must be Immediately
taken up on behalf of the workers.
The second wave of strike strug-
gls is only in its beginning and is
on the sharp rise 1t is no accident
that the second, like the first wave,
begins in the automobile industry.
It can penetrate to the roots OF the
most basic industries. 1t is bound
to mount to great heights. It must
necessarily be coupled with a gi-
gantic struggle with the unemployed
workers to compel now the grant
ing OF the social insurance which
even General Johnson was Obliged
TO admit III the open hearings to
the Communist Party representa-
tive, are now the life and death nee
essity OF the American workers.
The Communist Party showed it
self at Washington to be not alone
the Spokesman for the revolutionary
overthrow Of capitalism. but also
rs the leader and the only Leader OF
the workers s5rus gle Tor the workers
every day needs Tor bread and meat
and in defense Of their Democratic
rights.
The Communist Party and the
revolutionary trade unions and all
honess rank and fle Socialists must
now fulfill this role as nsver becc e.