The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
MAC DONALD HITS
: The TAKERS FOR
. LABOR TREASON
Miners Ex-Secretary
Hits Walker, harrington
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PEORIA, ILL.,, May 1S.-Duncan
Macdonald, former secretary-treasur-
er of the Illinois miners union,
fiayed Governor Small and the labor
takers who sold themselves to the
Republican party at the opening meet
ing of the state convention Of the
Farmer-Labor party Of Illinois to an
audience that packed the Labor tenn
pie to the doors.
He lashed Frank Harrington and
John H. Walker for their treason to
the workers and farmers of Illinois in
lining up with the crooked politician
who is now governor of the state. He
was particularly bitter against Walk
or, who was once held in high esteem
by the miners, but is now in the same
category as Samuel Gompers and his
crafty henchmen, like Victor Olander,
the dry land sailor, and Oscar Nelson,
the half-baked lawyer from Chicago,
who is tickled to death whenever
Mayor Dever allows him to act as
mayor for five minutes to represent
the city at some labor gathering.
These lackeys of the capitalist
class, or labor lieutenants," as old
Mark Hanna used to call them, were
shown up in their true colors by Mac
Donald. They appeared at the min
ers' convention to block the move
ment for labor party. Whether they
are getting paid for this work out
nf tho frno re he
Der of Commerce, or whether they
are merely scabbing on the open hire
lings of the capitalists, the fact re-
mains that this tribe of labor leeches
are not alone sucking large salaries
out of the bodies of the workers, but
also destroying the workers power to
resist the encroachments of their
masters and preventing them from
uniting politically for the purpose of
ultimately organizing a government
Of workers and exploited farmers.
Macdonald denounced Farrington's
plan for cheaper production thru cleo
IRRIGATION. This plan would mean
more profits for the capitalists but not
more pay for the workers. Any Ia
Dor saving device under capitalism
can only help those who own the
means of production and distribution.
The capitalists are interested only in
making profits and evidently that is
what Frank Harrington is also inter
ested in-making profits for the coal
operators.
Arne Swabeck, district organizer of
the Workers Party, declared that the
Workers Party stood for the imme-
date organization Of the workers and
farmers politically in national Far
mer-Labor party. The labor takers
were frantically trying to stop the
tide flowing in the direction Of st.
Paul on June 18th. The reactionaries
were marshalling their spellbinders to
confuse the workers and try to con-
vince them that more could be gained
by making deals with the old parties
than by the workers organizing their
own political party. This may be true
in the case of the leaders who were
given good fat jobs for selling the la
Dor vote, but the condition OF the rank
and file today was worse off than
even after years of non-partisan poll
teal activity.
Alexander Howat, deposed presi-
dent Of the Kansas miners, who is
here on the invitation of the miners
convention. will address the Farmer
Labor convention tomorrow.