The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-01
BY THE WAY Comment and Criticism About Things Doing in the World.

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 The National Founders Association, i'll an effort to keep alive the "open shop" hoax, has organized stereopt1can slide exhibit showing quotations from prominent men, including presidents and cabinet members, favoring freedom for workers.
 Some of these quotations are of course frankly for the anti-mion shop, but some of them are torn from their con text and tortured into an "open shop" meaning.
 MT. Barr Is desperate for material when he resorts to such propaganda.
 Bunk about soviet Russia is again on the increase. Labor Age" which says it is labor magazine, declares ''the so- vlets are he soteraty d,a fiji ,.: ;M ,.: j; viets are here to stay' and ''the quickest way to bring order out of chaos IS for the nations of the world to recognize them It says also that the 'propa- ganda," against the soviets IS "fanatical. 7 Well, the propaganda" against the so- viets Is merely the truth about the so- viets. If truth seems fanatical, what shall be said of the multitude of lies told in support of the soviet tyranny?
 Labor Age" refers to the govern ments of Russian and Great Britain as the two most stable governments in Europe" Once upon time the govern ments of the czar and the kaiser were regarded as among the most stable in Europe. Something stability has never been proof of justice
 Moreover, to link the government of Great Britain with the bandit rule at Moscow Is an insult to the English de- mocracy, which unfortunately, however, the English democracy seems not yet to greatly resent
 The success of the bolshevik propa- ganda is one of the worlds greatest wonders, for to perpetrate such tragic hoax over so long period IS an achieve ment of which Satan himself might be proud.
 The position of British labor on the soviet autocracy question is well put in "Tee Labor Magazine" official British labor publication. Discussing the recent fusion of the International Federation of Transport Workers with the red Mos cow transpor workers organization, this magazine IS glad that "the doors are be- ing opened" to let in the red organiza- tions. 'sTo let in the workers of Rus sia, says the magazine, must ultimate ly mean an ncalculable gain to the or ganized labor forces of the world"
 Of course 1t is not s'the workers of Russia" that are being let in; it is the soviet ruled skeleton organization, ere ated for soviet purposes, that are being let i1 It means letting in the boIshevik policies and giving them chance to dis rupt the bona fide labor movement
 The joint committee of the amalga- mated and now hybrid transport orga- nization refers to bolshevik Russia as the last dyke now existing against the torrent or reaction that is sweeping over the world
 Such twaddle is fit only for children or crooks. How do they get that way and where do they get that stuff?
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 The New York Leader, formerly the Call, IS passing out of existence, refers to itself (and others refer to it)s as a labor paper.
 The leader was hnancied by a com bination of forces and organizations and the facts ought to be made clear to all.
 The Garland Foundation, controlled by Foster, Roger Baldwin and others. gave $40OO0 to the Leader The dual organization in the mems garment in- dustry clipped. n. One. or two A. F. of L. unions went irl and gave money. The Garland crowd, controlled by Foster, Baldwin and others of red and Green wich Village pink persuasion, controlled. They picked the editor, managing editor and business manager. They made the policies and spent the money.
 The Leader came. to the end of its $lOOOO0 rope in less than two months. It is not onlp dead-it is very dead !
 It never was labor paper It was but labor paper. It was constant and doctrinnaire opponent of the A. F. of L. That it was a labor paper, that it deserves any labor regrets, or that it ever had any sincere inten- tions of serving 1abor's cause is not the case. The truth about the Leader ought to be known, even though it is dead.