Industrial Autocracy or Labor Democracy Faces Workers Today
Industrial Autocracy or Labor Democracy Faces Workers Today THE organized workers of the nation may be facing their most important struggle since the open-shop drive following the end of the...
...2. Dissolution of Parliament and new elections...
...Workers' organized power in the industries means a trend toward industrial democracy...
...THESTRUGGLE IS ON...
...In some Kentucky coal areas miners are being discharged for refusing to sign company union membership rolls I Make no mistake about it...
...That means that if a corporation brings in a code signed with its company union the code will not necessarily be barred...
...The workers must fight their way inch by inch and day by day if they arc not to be outwitted by the other "partner...
...The act does not compel labor union organizations nor does it outlaw company unionism...
...The more unscrupulous of the employing classes in this period have created a new industry, the agencies that supply these creatures for service in industry and strikes...
...view in the party were thoroughly thrashed out, after which votes were taken...
...In organization structure, they will be more powerful than ever...
...The meeting will last about one hour and a half...
...So far as the employing class is concerned the old Anti-Trust laws are swept aside to give them sweeping powers'of organization into trade associations...
...City Campaign Will Be Launched at Big Picnic A RECORD turnout is anticipated at the annual Socialist Picnic Saturday, July 20th, at Ulmer Park, Brooklyn, the opening of the New York municipal campaign...
...The Recovery Act was announced as creating a "partnership" of Labor and Capital...
...The General Council of the Party, at a session following the ' party congress, decided to call upon Its Committee of Action and the Parliamentary groups to work for the following: 1. Convocation of the Chambers...
...All brsnchee hare been urged to be present snd also elect a banner carrier and to bring with them a laaga red flag...
...The workers are facing a vital struggle, not a gift on a silver platter...
...Organizations can still avail themselves of the opportunity of purchasing blocks of tickets, which are printed in their name, by which they can realize substantial profits for their treasuries, relief funds, or campaign funds...
...Copies of the new Declaration of Independence will be distributed...
...The plan, in addition to its economic advantages, is believed to offer an exceptional opportunity for party members in various parts of the state to get acquainted with each other...
...Every Socialist and sympathiser i* urged to be present at Union Square at 12 noon sharp...
...Coercion is being charged by labor men in other industries...
...The New York Socialists will nominate their standard bearers at a city convention during the preceding week, and they will make their first speeches after nomination there...
...More than twenl 7 thousand tickets have already been sold to organizations, among the groups i participating, which already number close to 200, are many trade unions, Socialist Party branches, as well as branches of the Workmen's Circle and other Labor groups...
...Capitalists will have a unity of command throughout^their respective industries...
...WHICH SHALL IT BE...
...The National Recovery Act now offers a fine opportunity for organizing the workers into unions of their own...
...Company unions are being hastily organized...
...We will make this July 4th aieeting a yearly event...
...These are to be One Big Unions of capital...
...They will get no more than what they fight for...
...The conflict* already emerging show that this is impossible...
...Moreover, there is a danger in this Recovery Act...
...The battle continued for several years...
...In his address Vandervelde said he was "definitely, categorically and inflexibly opposed to any participation by the Socialists in the Government," and said he could only support a government wholly in Socialist hands...
...There is one command and one union of capital at the top...
...The old and the new Declaration of Independence will be read...
...These creatures are also tht Swiss Guards of company unionism...
...The act was hardly signed When Washington swarmed with agents of big industries seeking ratification of "codes...
...Industrial Autocracy or Labor Democracy Faces Workers Today THE organized workers of the nation may be facing their most important struggle since the open-shop drive following the end of the World War...
...capitalist control means industrial autocracy enforced by the powers of the state...
...With the workers solidly organized they can be a tremendous democratic power in the industries...
...A motion In favor of taking a vote on a general striks was rejected 40.2,944 to 131,770 while the "uni'.d front" resolution was defcatU 347,881 to 136,378...
...The moment that the industries were released from war time control powerful corporations began a drive for the destruction of the unions...
...Belgian Socialists Vote Against Collaboration ONE of the most Important conference* In the history of the Belgian Socialist party, held at Brussels at the end of May, voted v/i to l to support the report of the General Council, taking a stand for democracy, against a spurious "United Front," and against participation In any government other than one wholly Socialist After a brilliant address by Emile Vandervelde supporting the report of the General Council the various points oi...
...War regulations gave the labor unions an opportunity to strengthen and expand organization...
...they should have a similar unity of command, not a division into numerous organizations acting under many commands with diversity of policy and action...
...The tentative list of speakers includes Jacob Panken, William Karlin, Henry J. Rosner, Samuel H. Friedman, Henry Fruchter, Jack Alt man, August Claessens...
...These industries have become feudal baronies, many of them honeycombed with corporation spies to prevent real organisation of the workers...
...In these One Big Unions of capital workers face a unity if command...
...In publishing the first of the "basic codes of fair competition" last week, Administrator Johnson declared that such codes may be accepted even if tliey have not "been arrived at by collective bargaining...
...It may eventually mean state capitalism or state paternalism or state feudalism...
...At the same time, he said, the party follows the Swiss, the Austrian and the British parties in adopting democracy as its basis, and will only abandon it when the bourgeoisie abandons legality...
...Farmers, business and professional people are being listed so that there will be information available as to who in the Socialist party are gardeners, paper hangers, gas station attendants, people who have wayside stands or tourist accommodations, aad others...
...An elaborate program of Varied amusements, euch as dancing, sports, open air movies, an all atar show, and other attractions are now being arranged...
...Is this all...
...Further information can be secured at Room 408, 7 East 15th Street Michigan Socialists Form Jobless Service DETROIT.—A special effort is being made by the Socialist party of Michigan to place unemployed members in jobs rising out of the tourist trade...
...It required many strikes and a drain of union funds to prevent disaster...
...All indications point to a record turnout...
...Whether it is any of these things depends upon the working class...
...The% can give ¦orders from below instead of receiving them from autocratic officials at the top...
...No intelligent worker will object to facing this struggle, but some may think that organization of the workers is now a matter of routine under this legislation...
...Aside from expanding organization, it is well for the workers to think of more solid industrial and plant organization in the mass-production industries...
...3. Union of all workers for the defense of democracy and for a minimum wage> TO CELEBRATE JULY 4th AN Independence Day celebration will be held under the auspices of the Socialist Party, Locsl New York City, at Union Square, July 1th, at 12 noon...
...there should be one command and one union of labor at the bottom in each industry...
...It is not, but the working masses have a fine opportunity to organize if they take advantage of it...
...In the succeeding years company unionism made extensive inroads in the mass production industries...
...The Counoil's report was ratified by a vote of 850,650 to 108,604, with 26,158 abstentions, pledging the party against collaboration of any kind...
...It merely provides that workers shall not be coerced into joining company unions or be interfered with in organizing their own unions...
...They face an enemy that since the Civil War has often employed the spy, the gunman and the mercenary to keep the workers in servitude...
...Quite a number of unions suffered severe reverses...
...Which in turn means that the organized masses must fight before (he board and in the industries...
...The Carnegie Steel Company, a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Company, has organized one of these frauds...
Vol. 16 • July 1933 • No. 1
