The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
FOSTER ANALYzES
INDUSTRIAL CRISIS
IN LABOR HERALD
February Issue Com
pletes Papers End Year
BY CYRIL LAMRKIN.

The more intelligent workers in the
Labor Movement of America per-
ceived years ago the decline Of the
trade unions, decline which assumed
serious proportions about two years
ago, following the industrial depres-
sion Of that time. They looked for a
dam to stem the tide. The Trade
Union Educational League was or
ganized not only to stem that tide,
but to reverse it, if possible, and make
the waters Of trade unionism flow
into new channels. The Labor Her
aid, the official organ of the League,
was eagerly welcomed and trusted.
The Labor Herald for February,
which completes the second year of
its existence abundantly justifies the
trust placed in it by the militant
workers Of America.
Warns of Bankrupt Leaders
1t opens with an exceptionally Luz
cid analysis Of the present economic
period by VIM. 2. Foster. He proves
conclusively that there is impending
a new industrial crisis, which will be
taken advantage of by the employers
to engage Labor in new terrific
struggle in order to wipe out, if pos
sible, whatever advantages the work
ers still enjoy thru their weakened
organizations. He predicts that the
bankrupt leaders will pay their usual
traitorous role in that struggle, FL
nally, he points to some new policies
which are required by the new condi-
tons, in additions to the present gen.
eral policies of the League. 10 miss
this article is to miss the most inn
portant analysis of the new develop
ments taking place in our economic
life and the problems that they pre-
sent to the workers who are deter
mined to make the American Labor
Movement intelligent and powerful.
Earl Browder, in a review of the
second year of the League, very in
terestingly tells Of the organizational
development Of the League, following
the first year of missionary and pro-
paganda work. He gibes an account
Of the frantic efforts Of the trade
union bureaucrats to halt the prog
ress by campaigns of lies and expul-
sions, and predicts for the new year
greater struggles and corresponding
~ important successes.
The magnitude of the problem of
organizing the metal miners is set
forth by VIM. F. Dunno, for many
years one of the trusted leaders Of
Organized Labor in the heart of the
copper country, Butte, Montana. His
account OF the heroic struggle Of the
old union, the brutality Of the Copper
Trust, the treacherv of dishonest Of
ficials and the mistakes of well-mean-
ing radicals, constitutes a lesson
which no progressive worker can af-
ford to skip.
Tells of Brutal Struggle.
Excellent articles on The Movement
for Autonomy in Canada, by Tim
Buck, on the Coming Struggles in
Britain, by Harry Pollitt, one of the
struggles, the strike of the Locomo-
tive Enginemen and Firemen, already
having materialized; ''RAIC'' in Rus
STA, by Robert w. Dunn; the Mem
ace Of Vicious Immigration Laws, by
Ben Gitlow, and several other arti-
cles and incisive editorials, offer the
usual wealth of material one has come
to expect Of the Labor Herald. One
must not forget the remarkable trib-
ute paid the, 7. U. E. L. by A. Lo-
sovsky, general secretary of the Red
International of Labor Unions.
Who will contradict the statement
that the Labor Herald is the most
Instructive and most inspiring labor
journal in America?