The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-04
'DOB'S' CIRCUS
PUTS ON MORE
Wild animals
But Best Specimens Are
Out of TOwn

It's too bad Tim Murphy is
not in town! There are many
things he could do besides ex-
planning why he was detained
in Leavenworth over trifling
matter of being misunderstood
when a couple of hundred
thousand dollars were found in
his trunk. For instance he coulo
Introduce a resolution, some-
where, endorsing Robert Marion
laFolIette for president.
What is Fred Nader doing
these days? The ubiquitous
Fred was very much in evidence
not so very long ago, and be-
ing a ''bona fide labor leader"
and a good hustler for the I'M
dertakers, he pulled quite a
string in political circles.
We cannot imagine anybody better
fitted to introduce a motion in the
Building Trades Council than Fred
unless It be Michael Artery, business
agent of Local 1876. of the Metal and
Machinery Workers Union, affiliated
with the Structural Iron Workers.
In the absence of more qualified
mouthpieces for Robert M. LaFollette,
Michael Artery did the necessary. In
deed In the words Of the learned editor
OF the Federation News, he introduced
"a well conceived resolution" before
the Chicago Building Trades Council,
endorsing LaFollette and Wheeler,
which was unanimously adopted.
The Politicians Beverage.
Being a public character, brother
Artery, 1t is safe to assume, will not
take umbrage at the shedding Of a
little light on his past career. In fact
publicity is the fayorite drink Of public
men and II they don't find the con-
coction to their taste on occasion the
bartender who mixes the beverage
may not be entirely to blame. Rather
they who furnish the ingredients.
There was a time here in Chicago
when the Lands award caused con-
siderable commotion in labor circles.
There is no necessity to explain its
provisions except that it was move
to establish the "open shop" in the
building trades. 1t was fought vigor-
ously by that section Of organized Ia
Dor which holds that the unions are
labor's first line of defense against the
bosses and that the unions must be
preserved as fighting organizations
under the control of the workers and
accepting neither advice nor dictation
from the employers.
Carpenters Leaders Surrender.
This position was held by the ad-
vanced section of organized labor. In
the Building Trades Council the car
penters and painters and other unions
fought it, but today the painters are
leading the fight. The carpenters
thru faker Jensen threw in the sponge.
What did Michael Artery have to do
with the Lands award? This much:
At a meeting Of the Building Trades
Council which considered the Lands
award, Artery made a long and clever
speech, denouncing Lands with all
his works and pomps and winding up
by making a motion to accept the
Lands award.
We are not concerned here with the
motives animating Artery's later move
in organizing a dual Building Trades
Council in opposition to Edward Ryan
and his group who headed the regular
council. 1t is obvious that man with
Artery's experience and intelligence
knew as much about the Lands award
when he made the motion to accept
It as he knew afterwards when he
made his fake fight against it.
AS it stands now the only union
In the Chicago Building Trades Coun-
Gil to fight the scab Lands award plan
Is the Painters Union. The carpen-
;ers, thru the Vaccinations of Jensen,
have signed an agreement which is
plainly a surrender to the open shop"
lands award.
Some Pertinent Remarks.
The Artery resolution endorsing La
Toilette and Wheeler calls for a few
observations on the political bedlam
which is synonymous with the LaFol-
BIG MASS MEETING