The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
C00L|DGE'S MANAGER IS FINK BOSS
AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTV

DEACTIONARY labor leaders must
lNhave something to kick against if
they are to retain some prestige among
workers. While they support the cap
italist system, they pick out isolated
capitalists and show them up as the
cause of all the persecution and
misery that the workers suffer from.
Gompers has his Ebert H. Gary, head
Of the Steel Trust. Gompers dimes
with Gary at Civic Federation ban
quets, but they growl at each other
in public for the benefit Of the dupes.
In Illinois the labor takers have Gen
eral Dawes to serve as their punching
bag.
THE General is anti-labor. He hates
! unions with hatred that is holy
1t is even possible that he hates any
kind of labor unionism even that
under the control of the reactionaries.
1t hurts his feelings to think that a
hired servant should have anything
to say as to the conditions under
which he works. 1t maddens him to
see Len Small play with the labor
takers instead of standing solidly for
the principle of capitalists dictator
ship, unsullied by the participation of
even the labor betrayers.
| to the reactionary labor skates.
John L. Walker, president of the ILL
nois Federation of Labor and Victor
Olander, the secretary of that organi-
cation, make the welkins ring with
their condemnation of Dawes. They
always get a good hand when they
fay the General. Sometimes Mr..
Walker cries as he relates the crimes
of He'll an Maria But these two clever
gentlemen know that the cussing
banker is not the capitalist system,
but one of its most candid and brutal
ly frank pillars. Len Small and his
wing of the Republican party of Illi-
nois stands for the capitalist system
as does Dawes. But the Small gang
meet labor half way by purchasing it's
leaders, while Dawes is more unbend-
ing.
THE Illinois Manufacturers Associa-
| ton is one of the organizations
that is in politics all the year round
in behalf of it's members. 1t sees
that bills are introduced in the legis-
1a4,,ro 4h,t mould ouob1a tho ,,orreoo
turers to make more profits. 1t spe-
cializes in anti-labor bills. 1t has its
agents in the state assembly. There
are millions of workers in this State
who if properly organized could snap
their fingers at anything the Manufac-
turers Association or their bought as
sembly could do. But have the labor
takers who now denounce the Man
ufacturers' Association made any at
tempt to organize them industrially
or politically? OF course not. The
activities of the association are now
used by the labor leaders as an argu-
ment to re-elect Len Small, an official
with record as black as that of any
man who ever served a term in office.
1t is safe to say that had General
Dawes used the same methods that
Len Small used toward the labor lead
ers they would now be singing his
praises instead Of denouncing him.
THE Dawes plan is having hard sled
ding in the Reichstag. According
to press reports the Communists are
carrying on a vigorous fight against
the infamous scheme. Recently the
Communists fought Herriot on his
held conference with a view to tax.
ing common action against the capital
lists of both countries. The French
communists fought Herriot on his
London agreement report. They lost
but they made a splendid fight and
even the capitalist press was obliged
to publish Marcel Cachin's great
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