The Daily Worker

Promises Office Workers Pie in the Government Sky

NEW YORK.-Among the paper unions striving to be recognized by the Recovery administration is the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union. Their "leader," Leonard Bright, a Socialist, yesterday sought to conquer Wall Street, and staged an open air meeting where he promised the office workers higher pay through the kindness of Roosevelt and the Recovery administration.

Bright's chief contribution has been an energetic drive to smother all rank and file expression in his union and to expel all militant elements. He has never succeeded in organizing the white collar workers.

Wall Street clerical workers have this week experienced that they can win improvements in their conditions through struggles, as was evident in the recent strike in four brokerage houses. This was done without benefit of the fake A. F. of L. officials and their sell-out deals.

The Office Workers' Union with offices at 799 Broadway is making a drive to organize the white collar workers on the basis of control by the clerical workers themselves and not in the expectation of promises, but for real gains in their conditions to be won through united action of the office workers themselves.