Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-09-28
PREFACE.

PREFACE.
F5r many years the organized la
b.r movement. in fact every active
and successfu labor organizer, has
hen confronted with the dilemma as
4. Why so many apparently promising
lahar organizations are being built up,
only To disappear in one way or an
Oluer.
Every honest thinker and well wish
or nj the labor movement is seeking
mad i partlv successful in finding the
s5h5fjan of the problem. The author
of this book does not lay any claims
lar having solved the problem to the
satisfaction of all, but has made an
honest attempt to point out some fac
tors which are responsible to some
dpgree for the destruction of many
labor union, and is venturing the as
sertion that the appearance of this
volume will encounter some opposi-
ton from quarters protesting to have
solved the problem ere long ago, and
naturally will not find any fiattering
comfort in the pages of this book.
In dealing with the subject, the
"Stoolpigeon,' the author has made
no attempt to exploit any social
theory This is not the scope of this
work. Nor has he any quarrel with
anyone whose views are at variance
with his own, but the subject matter
regarding the "Stoolpigeon" is faith
fully presented, Just as he is. He is
permitted to speak his own language,
and the documents reproduced herein
are in the Stoolpigeon's original hand
writing. No correction in the diction
OF grammar, etc, was attempted In
any shape or manner. In other words,
the "Stoolpigeon" is stripped bare
and exposed to the readers gaze in
his own light, and should be judged
By his own reports and mouthings.
The reader will note that, all
through the pages of the book the
Leader" is singled out for attack in
all the Vaccinations of the Opera
tive" when the destruction of labor
union is contemplated. Naturally, the
question presents itself. What is to be
done? because there will always be
someone among the Rank and File"
who Is ever ready TO give an ear to
gossip" regarding the one who is
pushed to the front to represent them.
The "Stoolpigeon" works on the as
sumption that when the Leader" is
dlscfedited, the organization invaria-
bly, begins its downward course. But
fortunately for the Labor movement
and the Workers, there is a dawn of
a new day, and the Workers by bitter
experience are beginning to discern
the difference between the Leader"
that comes from their own ranks, and
the one who appears from Nowhere,
and who is using high sounding
phrases, meaningless as far as con-
stfuctlVe action is concerned.
The "St0olpigeon" is often success
ful IN carrying out his mission of
destruction, where the workers permit
themselves to be swerved from the
true course, by possibly well meaning
but misguided rainbow chasers, who
are using the meeting of local union
as an experimental station for theo-
ries that they themselves often recant.
A labor union is organized for one
specific purpose, and that is, to secure
Tor the workers the best working
conditions, higher wages and shorter
hours. When is leaves that base of
operation and embarks upon unchart-
ed seas, social philosophers, foreign
to lis course, it invites the enemy
from within and without for its own
obstruction. That does not necessarily
follow that Workers should not har-
Dor or entertain any ideas which have
tendency for a better "Social Order"
That they should forsake their aspira-
IONS for change in human society,
which is inevitable.
But Experience is a stern teacher,
ana changes are not being wrought
oy resolutions over night, and that
tnoSe who elamor for swift and
sudden Revolution" have often been
found wanting when the time for