The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-15
omaha SLABOR
Takers Divide
THEIR SUPPORT
HelIuUa Mess With Bob,
DaweS and Davis
Especial to the DAILY woRKER)

pretty a political stew as was
ever concocted is now bubbling
in the organized labor move
ment of Omaha, with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor Off
cialIy footing the horn for
Fighting Bob, A. J. Donahoe,
who served as president of the
Central Labor Union, tuning in
for Dawes, and two other fa-
nous takers, George Norman
and George KIeffner, hitting for
the Democratic slate.
At time when trade union
organization is about in the
worst shape in its history, the
labor skates are adding delusion
to confusion on the political
field as a direct result of the
fossilized policy of the A. F. of L.,
in rewarding its friends and
Furnishing its enemies.
Dawes Labor Support.
When Hell-an' Maria Dawes came
here to deliver his speech, Gould
Dietz, national republican committee
man in this state, realizing that Neb-
raska might easily skip into the col
umn of another candidate on Novem-
Der 4, hunted around for some labor
support to Dawes. He conceived the
L-.11t,.4 ;doo 4bot - ba Gould oaf coma
prominent republican labor leader"
to team with Dawes while he was in
the state, it could be used to show the
republicans love for the worker.
When the great day arrived together
with Dawes, -Dietz prevailed upon
Charlie to take second place for once
and had him photographed, in numer-
Gus poses, with the prominent "repub-
lican labor leader" This extinct dodo
was resurrected in the form of A. j.
Donahoe, more Familiarity known as
Tony, who has been misleading labor
in Nebraska for over quarter Of a
century.
A Perfidious Faker.
Donahoe is a switchman, affiliated
with the A. F. of l., and as president
of the Omaha central labor body the
best work he carried on was in the
wrong direction. On one occasion the
meat-cutters' union went into the G.
L. U. to get certain meat market
put on the unfair list. Their case was
Just and the firm was declared unfair
to organized labor. Donahoe presided.
A copule of days later, Donahoe,
president of the c. L. U. was caught
coolly entering the unfair place where
he got his meat. When accused OF
this piece Of perfidy by a meat-cutters'
delegate, the only excuse he had to
offer was that he saw no pickets
around the place; whereupon the del
egate accused him of having pulled
the same stunt in another place, and
Donahoe didn't deny it.
omaha's Red Raids.
A short time later the same Dona-
hoe was the leading spirit in the fam,
GUS cleanup Of the reds" in the
Omaha labor body. Someone had to
be the goat for the rotten condition
Of organized labor in the city under
Tony's leadership and so Tom Math-
ews, butcher workman was unseated,
and David Coutts, a stonecutter, was
"censured," altho this censure was
never delivered. At that time Tony
was emphatic in his loyalty to the A.
F. Of L. and would not tolerate any
thing that smacked of breach of dis
cipline of its decisions.
Now he has sold out to Dawes, the
most outspoken enemy Of organized
labor in America today. The last po-
utical Job Tony thot he might like
was United States marshal in the
Omaha district, but his desire was all
he got. Some years ago he got the
nomination for sheriff on the repub-
ncan ticket, the usual equivalent to
election. The rest of the ticket was
elected. Not so Tony. Two years ago
he ran for sheriff again, this time on
a progressive" ticket and the same
fate got him.
Altho he wears a Buffalo Bill hat
and goatee, his activities are more
reminiscent of Sitting Bull-or Stand
ing Bull, as you like it.
Another Pretty Pair.
The picture is incomplete without
the story Of the other leaders in the
fight against the REDS" George Nor
man, a machinist last and politician
first, and George Kleffner an ex-mail
carrier who has been carried on the
public pay roll ever since the oldest
resident" can recall. These two politi-
cal high-binders are now running
around this piece Of territory round
ing ND the workers for the democratic
party, at so much per roundup.
II the takers in Washington thot
they could line up the entire labor
movement Of the country behind Fad
ing Bob they reckoned without the les
ser takers who are negotiating gently