The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31

lTEE have seen the spirit of class
" collaboration materialized and
dolled up for public display by Spen-
Ger Miller, Jr.. theoretician-in-chief for
the labor agents of imperialism at At
lantic City. That spirit, embodied in
a cartoon by Robert Minor recently,
is indeed the spirit of Samuel Com
pers as we learn from the lips of no
less parsonage than Secretary Frank
Morrison.
According to Morrison, Gompers
first gained his attentive appreciation
by treason to the whole American
working class in one of it's historic
struggles. Gompers then, gained leau-
ership by an act of wholesale treach-
cry.
MO intelligent worker will be sur
~ prised then, if convention
which endorsed the belly-crawling to
American capitalism INDUCED in by
Spencer Miller Jr.. in the field of edu-
cation, and which spent day deifying
the kind of an individual described SO
well by Morrison, gave practical ex-
preston to its desire, in return for
a modicum of the spoils, to act as
chambermaid for the captains of in
dustry and lords of American finance
This is exactly what the Atlantic
convention did
One will go blind if he strains his
nuoc for ouxr oion -, kho voooI,.tf0xe of
the convention that it has ever heard
anything of the class nature of so
ciety-the exploitation Of one class by
another which gives rise to the class
struggle.
ON the contrary, the A. F. of L. of
" ficialdom has adopted and now
glibly mouths such phrases as group
production" personnel relations, .
sustained industrial progress" Gin
Independence of the interests of all
groups" Cooperation of employees in
production"-all of which is cribbed
from the gibberish of the new school
of adding machine social research ex-
ponents turned out by Rockefeller en-
dowed colleges.
These phrases are designed to veil
the conflict of interests that exists,
in spite of all attempts to gloss it
over, between the working class and
the capitalist class. They have the
additional purpose of furnishing a
pseudo-scientific justification for all
the class collaboration schemes which
are being foisted upon the labor move
ment.
OUCH a scheme is the Baltimore &
~ Ohio Plan" differing only from the
outright company unions in that the
machinery of the A. F. of L. unions is
placed at the disposal of the bosses
and the speeding-up of labor given
the sanction of the union officials.
More than that, production experts
employed jointly by the union and
the bosses. deluge the workers with
statistical data proving that they can
and must "hit the ball." for the honor
and glory of the union-and the pro-
fits of the bosses.
For" say the opponents of this
class collaborationist school of thot,
chow can the boss pay wages if he
doesn't make profits?"
THE following was adopted on the
4 report of the executive council
dealing with new economic develop
ments:
PRODUCTION is A GROUP UN-
DERTAkING. 1T INVOLVES FIND
ING THE. BEST WAYS FOR THE
GROUP TO WORK TOGETHER.
This is the field Of personnel rela-
tIons research. It Is of the utmost
Importance that the trade union
should be adequately represented In
this field in order that technicians
and research workers may at all
staoes have their attention called