The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-21

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a resolution introduced by Major
George L. BeTy, asks the endorses
ment Of the American Legion, prob
ably as the best strlkebreakers out
side of the officials of the Press
mems Union.
The Molders' Union has introduce
ed a resolution asking by petition
Of the governor Of Texas, the re-
lease Of RanseI, Cline, cisneros,
Gonzales, Vasquez and Perales.
the trade unions. The money had
helped Grassman to carry on the ex-
pulsion fight against the Communists,
! therefore, Grassman thanked Com
pers.
No Remedy for Sharp Struggle.
Grassman warned that sharp strug-
gle is now commencing between the
workers and the employers. Accord
ing to him, only fools believe that
capitalism has been weakened by the
world war" He says, ION the con.
trary, in all countries the advance of
the labor movement is coming to a
standstill. But self-preservation will
force the toilers of the world to
unite"
Grassman said, "The most powerful
economic nation cannot live for long
without the Others" evidently speak
ing of America. "How much truer
that is Of the working class A defeat
for the workers in one country con-
Germs all others. We must look to
the future in order to control it. We
stretch our hands to the American
workers and would be glad If you
would shake hands with u.s."
"Greedy" Workers to Blame.
Grassman blamed the loss in trade
union membership to the "greediness'
of new members taken in during 1918.
These, so he said, wanted a thousand
per cent interest on dues paid. When
1t was clear that it was easier to alter
political conditions than to change the
economic order, these people lost pat.
fence and followed the loudest agita-
tor. He did not say that the Ger
man social-democracy, Of which he is
a leading mlsnbef in the reichstaE
had promised the German workers
I Specialization" and then betrayed that
promise by even giving the govern
ment railroads into private hands I'm
der the Dawes plan.
Grassman, instead. blames "Mos-
COW" Moscow financed Communist
propaganda because it hated trade un-
ion leaders and wanted to make the
trade unions an instrument for the
political purposes Of Moscow dicta-
tors and make Germany a Bolshevist
state. But they failed" He did not
add that the German workers had
small choice in the matter, since his
socialist party shot them down when
they attempted to set up a Soviet.
Nor did he explain that this failure"
OF the Bolsheviks opened the way for
the enslavement OF German labor nm
der the Dawes plan.
Advocates Hope Diet.
Communism is a mental disease"
Grassman asserted, which probably
explains the immunity of Gompers
and company. This disease disap-
pears when we can have hopes for
| The future, therefore, we Germans &C.
copied the Dawes plan as the only
way out" He did not say how long
the German workers were expected to
live on hopes, nor that a Soviet revo-
luton was another way out"
Grassman was very proud that he
was the only expert" that Dawes
called in to speak for German labor.
He said that the eight-hour law in
the German constitution which the
Dawes plan is forcing Germany to
repeal didn't amount to much anyhow
that laws can only be enforced by
strong organizations and that in this
respect the unions we're now accumu-
lating funds and had started a tabor
bank"
VIII Fight for Low Wages.
Grassman said that altho wages are
from IS to 40 per cent below the
pre-war scale, still there are tested
union men who will fight to keep
these conditions because IT is called
democratic republic" inste. Of a
dictatorship"
Gompers' Agent MIsrepresents Mexico
Haberman, one OF the lick-spittle
radicals" who successfully made
career for themselves in the young la
Dor mOveunonfa NJ Maxieo NV acting a y
Gompers' messengers, spoke for the
Mexican federation. He invited the
delegates TO the Inauguration OF Cal.