The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-03-17
MUSH MONGER'S HIDE PEELED
TEACHINGS OF l. w. WIS WOULD DESTROY WORKERS PRIDE
IN SKILL AND CREATIVE ABILITY AND IT'S "WORKING
CLASS" TALK is PRATTLE, SAYS FURUSETH
MISERY Hate of Labor and Employer and Efforts Undermine
Class Affects High Regard For Is It's Only Basis, He Says

Washington. Andrew Furuseth's
analysis Of the / w W preamble
attacks the bummery from a new an
pie and mows down the whole align
ment of oral rcvolutionists and their
pink tea devotees
Never has the hides of these mush
mongers been peeled more artistically
The seamen's executive shows that
their talk of a working class is
prattle and that their teachings make
class feeling and class pride impos-
sible because these teachings destroy
the workers pride in his skill and in
his creative ability
Instead Of Identifying labor and ere
ating in the minds Of workers pride
in their calling, thus laying the foun-
daton for class pride that can be
used for constructive purposes, Pres
ident Furuseth shows that the / w
W pursues a contrary policy; that it
has nothing upon which to base itself
unless it be common misery, common
hate Of labor, common hate of the
employer and continuous efforts to
get out of the class fol which it
affects such high regard
"The workers as considered and
addressed BY the preamble cannot
under any reasonable definition be
called a class, said the trade unionist
They have nothing in common un-
less it be the hunger and want They
have neither common purpose nor a
common occupation They are not
exclusive; they have neither ndivid-
ual non class pride.
They accept members, real or ex-
PEELED, of the employing class as lead
ers; they borrow ideas, thoughts,
language, phrases, manners and Gus
toms from the employing class, whom
they look up to and consider their
betters; they are 50 eager to get out
Of their class 90 that they are will
ing to do almost anything, even risk
ing prison to get up, as they call it..
at is by herding such as these into
mixed assemblies that they are to
create the army that is to upset eX-
isting society better equipped than
at any time in the worlds history to
defend itself against revolutionists
This is not to say that real work
ers may not have some common char
acteristics, which, properly understood
and cultivated, would not or could not
mold them into a genuine class, not
withstanding their great numbers.
in the old religions, now called
mythology, the workers are thought of
as nearest to the gods, because they
continue creation.
Being the artists in production
without which life would be inlpossi-
BILE, they might well have pride in
production, in skill, in work well done
and a consciousness of their creative
capacity that might serve as a foun-
dation for class feeling and class
pride.
'We look in vain, however, for any
recognition of any such in either the
preamble or the constitution. On the
contrary, there is a distinct hostility
like in the case of employer or large
number of them, to any craftsmanship
or skill
"Both the documents discredit the
very thought Free interchange OF
membership cards or transfers from
one organization to another within the
l. w. w. is insisted upon under pen.
alties. (See transfers.) The bakers
must be transferred into the shoe