The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-16
AS WE SEE 1T

Labor now in session at Montreal
Samuel Gompers declared that the
American labor movement must get
rid of its "unclean" elements. I'VE
must drive the rascals out" he said.
We do not remember being in such
hearty accord with Gompers since
well, we don't remember ever being in
accord with him. However, on the
matter Of putting this resolution into
operation we suggest that Gompers
set good example to the others and
step out. He is the chief rascal
While Gompers was threatening to
disconnect the crooks with the A. f.
Of L. treasury another labor faker
was unloading himself of some trite
piffle at the triennial convention of
the Switchmen's Union Of North
America, held in Denver, Colorado.
]. b. Connors, assistant international
president of that organization predict
ed that "the radical element would
never gain control of the unions so
long as capital treats labor with in
telligence." Which means if you read
between the lines, $50 long as CAPT
talists allow some of the crumbs from
their table to fall into the maws Of the
hungry labor takers"
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Coolidge killed the Bursum pension
increase bill with veto. He had a
narrow escape tho. It was the first
victory in long time, except the easy
ones over Hiram Johnson in the Re-
publican primaries. The vote was SO
to %, just one short of the necessary
two-thirds majority necessary to over
ride his veto. Spanish and civil war
veterans will not thank the president.
Harding vetoed the same bill last
year Bursum plans to bring it up
again but by the time he is liable to get
it thru, the veterans may be in a posi-.
ton to debate its provisions with Will
son, Harding and Jess Smith on the
River Styx. It is interesting to note
that Is Democrats voted to sustain
the veto and only IL Republicans. It
looks bad for the soldiers bonus bill.
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James H. Maurer, socialist and
President of the Pennsylvania FEEDER.
alton Of Labor, took leaf out of the
black book of John L. Lewis, president
OF the United Mine Workers Of Amer.
lea, in inviting James J. Davis, secre.
tary Of Labor in the Coolidge cabinet
to address the convention, now in ses-
sion at Allentown, PA. DAVIS is one
of the archfoes of the foraign-born
workers. Like Samuel Gompers he is
an alien. Davis was born in Wales
and Gompers halls from Whitechapel,
London. The secretary of labor deliv-
cred bis usual TRADE against the for
eign-born but soft pedalled his finger
printing and deportation plans. Per-
haps the labor leaders are not prom
erly psychological" yet. Or perhaps
he feared that he could not be as
bold before delegate convention OF
WORKERS as he could at a Republican
Party conference.
Maurer did not have plain sailing at
the convention. A delegate asked who
invited the Coolidge tool to the con-
vention. Maurer brazenly admitted be
did. Those who thought few years
age that the Socialist Party OF Amer
lea would not fall so low as the Social
list party of Germany in it's sub
servience to the ruling class can
now clearly see they are mis-
taken. Unfortunately for the workers
in Germany and in the rest of Europe
the Socialist Parties there had a mass
following and were capable of render
ing real service to the capitalists.
Here the Socialist party is used as a
press service by Samuel Gompers, who
is the chief labor lieutenant of the cap
italists. James Maurer, once the So
sialist war horse of Pennsylvania, has
given up the fight against the CAPT.
talists. He has made peace with the
enemies of the workers. Peace unto
his dead radical soul
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., is running
two daily papers on the West coast.
Unless he looks out, Samuel Gompers
will have him down as an agent of
the Communist international. In one
of his recent issues he published the
following paragraph about Russia:
How different are the facts con-
corning Soviet Russia that occasion
ally seep thru from those furnished
by the Better American Federation. BY
the paid propagandists we are told OF
the reign of terror that reaches from
border to border of Russia Then
comes dispatch stating that the most
northerly weather and radio station
maintained by any nation is that at
Harsh, on the Kara sea. This station
is conducted by the Academy OF
Sciences at Leningrad, branch of the
Soviet government. Two men are at
he most and it is possihIe IN send than,