The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-31
SMALL USED
GOLD DUST ON
FORMER foes
NOw They Eat Honey
Out of His Fist
tspseIsI % rhs DaIIy workerl

When the "pay-roI special" was
run from Springfield to Kanka-
kee some months ago carrying
the job holders and their friends
to a poW-WoW in the interest of
the small" governor of Illinois,
it had aboard the president of
the State Federation of Labor,
John n. Walker.
Four years previous John was
a candidate for the position him
self and said that Small was so
crooked he couldn't lie in a
roundhouse. GIN this occasion,
however, he made a speech in
the interest.of Small in which he
is quoted as saying, "The hope
of the farmer and wage worker
is Small" meaning the gov
ernor, of course
John Makes 'em Wonder.
Some people marveled at Walkers
position as he had completely re.
versed himself in the four years Of
the. Small insumbency. Going back
ayfew years again we find where he
was an ardent booster for Dunno "the
hope of the wage worker" and he and
his executive board issued a state.
ment boosting Dunno as a friend Of
labor and Lowden as the arch enemy
of progress. In spite of his denunci
alton Lowden was elected even
though his opponent gave Frank Far
rington a thousand dollars for his
support and while Lowden had the
apparent undying opposition of Wal
ker and Harrington he soon had them
both in his vest pocket and at the
Bloomington convention of the State
Federation few. years ago he pre-.
sented Lowden as "a loyal friend of
Labor"
Some are now wondering what it
takes to make a friend of labor out
of former enemies and especially out.
spoken enemies such as Lowden with
his connection and close association
to the Pullman Company or Small
who was on the unfair list of the
Kankakee Federation of Labor Small
is now a 'friend of labor" even though
every piece of hard road from the
Wisconsin line to Cairo was built by
non-union contractors at scab wages.
The cement that is used is produced
under non-union conditions and when
Small boosted of how he made the
cement companies come to time in the
price of cement and secured a reduc
ton in price of approximately twenty
per cent, the wages Of the cement
workers were reduced some fifty per
cent
Small Spread the vaseIIne.
Where business agents attempted
to interfere with the program of the
non-union contractors they were
chased off the job and threatened
with arrest if they sought to interfere
When Harrington threatened to call
P strike of the Illinois miners unless
Small permitted him harrington to
have some say-so in naming members
Of the Industrial Board the governor
in effect told him to go ahead and
naturally the governor was an enemy
Of labor then. But it is all changed
now. Small is the candy kid" and
the State Federation is out for him
strong. When the nominations were
being made harrington sent a tele.
gram to every miners local in the
state urging them to support Small
on the very eve Of the primary.
An investigation here shows that
all that was required to make friend
out Of an enemy In the person of the
governor was to permit Walker and
harrington to have some say in get
ting jobs for their friends and relat.
ives. This does the trick and now
Small is a hundred per cent all right
for labor The question of his steal.
ing two million dollars of interest
money does not interfere with his
purity and undylng devotion to the
cause of labor. The fact that he put
every member Of the family on the
payroll even to the house-keeper and
added another job as assistant sec
rotary to the governor for his son
Leslie is beside the mark. The cheap
wage non-union contractors who get
the state jobs operating under non.
union conditions is question aside
from the issue. Small is now our
friend and savior. Hurrah for Small
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