The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-16
AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY

The Machinists' Monthly Journal is
the Official organ of the international
Association of Machinists. The presi-
dent of that organization is William
H. JohnstOne, who has taken an ac-
tive part in the Conference for Prog
ressive Political Action, which many
people once thought might final :
wind UP in favor of labor party.
fact, this bogus conference is st a
fostering that illusion. George L.
Berry evidently does not take the
pretensions of Mr.. tombstone very
seriously. He is not for labor party.
His immediate aim is to secure the
vice-presidential nomination on the
Democratic ticket. He is a notorious
reactionary and strikebreaker, yet we
find his picture in the current issue of
the Machinists' Monthly Journal ac-
companied by an editorial eulogy and
] endorsement.
The readers of the Journal are in
formed that George L. Berry needs no
Introduction" Quite right. He is as
well known to union men as the Bald
win Felts' thugs are to the miners Of
West Virginia and he generally plays
the same role. We are told that
Berry has every qualification for the
vice-presidency. Perhaps, in view of
the uselessness of that figure head,
Berry might establish a precedent
and set an example to his successors
by making it his business to act as
oficial strikebreaker. George merits
our support and he should get it."
says the paper controlled by Mr..
tombstone who is expected by the
Socialist party to help organize
Labor party on July 4th. Vain hope.
When Dawes was seriously nomi-
mated at the Cleveland convention Of
the G. 0. p, the delegates began to
yell. That is how they take the cuss-
ing militarist. He is nothing but a
big noise. Frank o. Lowden took q
neat slam at him when he said that
the vice presidency was no place for
an active man and that he never read
OF vice president who accomplished
anything. Dawes has tried to ape
Mussolini in building up a Fascist
organization but his efforts have not
been eminently successful. He shines
better as head Of the Central Trust
Company than as a general. His ia
vorite pose is with pipe in hand, some
thing like ex-Premier Stanley Bald
win of Britain. Stanley became poll
teal down and outer and the same
destiny is mapped out for Dawes. A
defeated president may be good for q
Chatauqua circuit or publicity agent
for circus but what the devil can
be done about a beaten vice-presi-
dent?
Warren s. Stone, grand chief of the
Locomotive Engineers, addressed 1000
bankers in New York recently. The
only way to solve the railroad prob
lem, said Mr.. Stone. is for the bankers
and the railroad workers to get to-
gether. He had already advised the
workers to turn their money over to
the bankers. Being relieved Of that
terrible burden, the slaves could then
devote more thought to the task OF
making the railroads pay. This is
what Stone calls capital and labor
getting together. The brotherhoods
are not in favor of government owner
ship, declared the notorious progress
sive." They have no quarrel with pri-
vate ownership if such ownership can
be administered with a genuiy-s
trusteeship of the rights of the pL,
lie, labor and the investor" The
bankers cheered Stone and declared
him one of the gang. He is indeed
worthy hacker of another alleged
radical, Robert Marion LaFollette.
1t was to be expected that Oswald
Garrison Willard would be pleased to
learn that LaFollette had officially
put one foot in the race for the presi-
dency on an independent ticket VII
lard is in the habit of getting excited
when capitalist politician does some
thing half decent. It appears that he
does not object to the capitalist sys-
tenn as such, but he does not like to
see 1t behaving so badly. Willard il
always seeing dangers confronting our
liberties. In an article entitled La
Toilette to the Front" he says. "In
one OF the darkest hours the Republic
has known there is still one man In
political life who will not bow the
knee to Baal." Perhaps not to Baal.
but Fighting Bob" rolled in the mud
before Sam Gompers and the labor
takers whose cash he needs to amb
his way into the White House.
far the takers have the best OF
bargain. They have got LaFollette's
denunciation of the Communists but
LaFollette hasn't got their dough yet
Connecticut Feels Depression.
SEYMOUR, Conn, June 1.-THE
New Haven Copper company is work