The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1922-04-29
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union. no matter how high or low
his position may be, must be re-
moved from office and Fosters Sc
cret agents must be put into official
power.
Fosters Big Problem.
How to secure these secret agents
and secret "unionists" and how to
assure their constant loyalty to Fos-
ter has been the real problem Of
Foster. He could not depend upon
the altruistic spirit Of these agents
because only a monetary considera-
ton could buy that sort Of human
effort. Hence he organized a 'Trade
Union Education League" This is
the cloak of piety with which these
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shield themselves. Members of the
Ku Klux Khan are not to pay any
dues-indeed they hope to profit
and not to pay.
Consequently Foster has started
a monthly publication called 1.-THE
Labor Herald" and the 1000 secret
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urged to go into the highways and
byways and into every trade union
meeting and secure subscriptions of
trade union members; and for every
copy sold these secret agents and
unionists are to receive 12h cents
per copy. Thus the printing press
supplemented by Fosters mind and
the effort Of these secret agents and
''unionists'' are the means of paying
the freight and the burden is to be
borne by the trade unions who
themselves are slated for the
Strengthening block.
Wants Full Control.
! Foster, not being content with get
ting control of the offices of every
local and international union, is also
I bent upon securing the control Of
every labor and trade Union journal.
Indeed, these agencies of labor pub
licity are the most dangerous agents
to Fosters scheme and hence word
has been sent out to Fosters secret
agents that every editor and pub
Usher of labor paper and trade
union journal is to be annihilated
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are to be put into these positions.
One Of the immediate tasks Of the
Trade Union Educational League is
to "educate" every labor editor and
publisher out of office and the La
Dor Herald" is to be heralded into
their places. He advocates and
hopes not only to eliminate every
! present labor official and trade I'M
ion and labor editor but he intends
likewise to put every trade union
publication and labor press out of
business except the Labor Herald"
OF course in that way the American
labor movement is to pay tribute to
Foster and his Ku Klux band Of Sc
cret agents and disruptionists.
Operates Cunningly.
Because of his direct affiliation
IT. the Chicago Federation of Labor
and membership in the organizing
committee, Foster cunningly man.
euvered a so-called "amalgamation"
resolution through the Chicago Fed
Grafton Of Labor. The resolution
was innocent enough but immedi-
ately after it's passage the true mo-
tive behind it became manifest.
Foster imm ediately heralded the
adoption of this resolution as an en-
dorsement of his "amalgamation"
scheme in his Labor Herald"
Fortunately President Gompers
had previously arranged for con-
ference meeting with the officers Of
all the local trade unions in Chicago
almost Immediately thereafter and
Foster was driven out in the open
and shown up in his true colors AS
a result the trade unions of Chicago
are aroused as never before and to
all practical intents the Chicago
unions have repudiated Fosters pat
ent medicine. Indeed, the Railway
Employees Department convention
has buried Fosters scheme SO far
as the railroads are concerned.
While there is room for improve
ment in the trade union movement,
while there is need for greater SOL
idarity among the forces Of labor,
there is neither room nor occasion
for any one to undermine the Ameri-
can trade union structure and to
still further divide the ranks of
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This movement of Fosters, is ex-
tremely dangerous and particularly
so at this time. 1t smacks of soviet
ism and bolshevism and what Is
more, it is doing what employers
have been attempting to do by might
and main. The employers who are
fighting the trade union movement
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their payroll and promote his la
Dor Herald Consciously or un-
consciously he is playing into their
hands and is proving himself an in
CRATE toward the trade union move
ment.