The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-28
Send Letter to Unions
and Socialist Party
in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. q. -
With plans for drive against the
trade unions and all militant work
ing-class organizations just re-
vealed in the exposure Of the Sc
cret Seven" Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, a call for a
united front to defeat all criminal
syndicalism and reactionary legis-
lation was issued yesterday to the
Socialist Party and the Cleveland
Federation Of Labor by the Com
munist Party.
The Cleveland Federation Of La
Dor has just passed . resolution
denouncing the Ohio Criminal Syn
dicalist Law.
In the statement for the Com
munist Party, addressed to the
officers and delegates of the Cleve-
land Federation of Labor and all
affiliated unions, and to the County
Executive and branches of the So
cialist Party, John Williamson
points to the growing menace
against the organized labor move
ment and urges immediate, prac-
teal action on the following issues:
Action Urged
1. For immediate repeal of the
Ohio Criminal Syndicalist laws.
2. Against all bills aimed at the
elimination of any working class
political party from the ballot.
;. For a movement for the i'm
mediate repeal Of sales tax.
4. Prohibition Of all anti-Iabor
injunctions. For defense of trade
unions.
5, For Unemployment Insur-
ance, as introduced in the Work
ers Bill, H.R. 2e27 and In Ohio
State Legislature, H. B. 1876.
Emphasizing the speed with
which reaction is organizing its
anti-labor drive, the Communist
Party declares that unity of all
forces in this hour Of open shop
attacks and reaction is burning
necessity, and we appeal to the
Cleveland Federation of Labor and
the Socialist Party to initiate to-
gether with us and any other Or
CARNATIONS genuinely interested in
the problems before labor, to unite
on all or any one of these issues
which affect us daily"
THE numerous attacks" the
statement continues, upon Cleye-
land workers and the organized
trade union movement has received
definite encouragement from the
recently issued report of the Cham
Der of Commences Secret Seven"
TO Break Unions
This Secret Seven document is
issued at this time precisely because
the workers are determined by use
of their organized union strength
to resist the new attacks of en-
ployer and government on wages.
living conditions and the A. F. of
L. unions. These attacks are en-
bodied most dramatically in the ex-
tension of the Auto Code and the
newly signed cigarette code. These
new attacks Of the Roosevelt Gov
eminent and it's varied N.R.A.
boards is open support to the in
dustrialists open shop drive.
"Cleveland's workers have re-
Gently been confronted with the
issuance of the most vicious injunc-
tons against them. To the already
increasing cost of living is added
the sales tax. The much heralded
work relief plan is really a
means of battering down the union
wage scale. Unemployment insur-
ance without taxing the laborer, has
been denounced.
Now comes the Secret Seven
with its heresy hunting campaign
against all labor, demanding en-
forcement of the Criminal Syn
dicalist Laws and new laws aimed
against all who struggle. The Sc
cret Seven talk much about the ac-
tivities of the Communists who are
against company unions and in
favor Of the workers joining the
A. F, Of L. union and making them