The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16

Labor takers attended the public
fought for positions at it's first wash
ing, at its premature birth.
Takers Gather At The Feast
William Best, a dominion lobbyist
for the international railway rum
ming trades, urged carefulness that
this bastard legislation be safely
delivered. When asked by an astute
enemy politician, what else the gov
eminent could do when Cancellation
boards failed, he was stumped fiat as
all takers are.
J. R. Stewart an insurance agent
holding a card in a International rum
ming trades organization in Nova
Scotia stated, ut must be good
thing because both employer and en-
ploye were against it,"
Pat Healey, for the Halifax Trades
and Labor Council pointed out that it
would put workers in Jail but be UNI
constitutional when it was invoked
against the employers.
Joe Wallace for the Communist
Party showed that the act wasn't to
stop strikes but to hamstring the
strikers by falling the leaders. And
that the act made the supreme court
where British Empire Steel repres-
entatlves hold the majority die
tator Of wages and working condi-
tions, as we'll as Of the fate of those
who opposed it.
He showed that there was nothing
to prevent the employer concerned
being put on the arbitration commits
sion; that there was no provision
against them accepting gifts or sub
sequent graft from the owning class,
and nothing to prevent any paper or
person urging the employers not to
accept an award. while a worker
would be jailed for so doing.
He also made it clear that any or
ganizer who urged better conditions
for the workers would be liable to i'm
prisonment. So that while Jack Mac
Donald and Malcolm Bruce of the
Communist Party took the jury route
to freedom the last time they were
arrested, next time wouldn't have a
chance
In addition to fighting the measure
before the legislature, and putting
iron into the opposition of the Trades
and Labor Council, the Communist
Party has been instrumental in sum
moning delegates of all trades unions
! to deal with this and related matters.
Expose Parliament From Within
The benefit Of having class con.
scious working class, even in the
bosses parliament was demonstrated
when the three men elected by the
workers of Cape Breton county, fought
its many clauses, pointing out the
clauses intended to be used to skim
the cream of the labor movement and
place the leading spirits in the ranks
of labor behind prison bars.
Nova Scotia now has the distinction
of having the most vicious law in its
statutes of any English speaking
country. and at the same time not one
labor law that can be said to have
been enacted in the interest of the
workers, such as S-hour day, minimum
wage for women etc.
The following observations Of a
capitalist paper after its enactment
serves to show the work it is in
tended to do:
A Capitalist View
when this tribunal shall have de
cided wage dispute, it will be illegal
for the McLachlans and the rest OF
that class to incite the workmen to
go on strike, on the other hand the
employers will have to obey also.
What did the labor party do to helI
him. armstrong; what did they dc
towards peace and good understand
ing? They bounded and badgered him
They sent him long abusive kilograms
marked collect. Yet the information
al leaders of their union said in
| speech in this city that Mr.. Arm
strong had acted like a statesman. =
Halifax Morning Chronicle May 3.
When John L. Lewis, while in Nova
Scotia in connection with the pres
ent lockout OF the miners of District
26 United Mine Workers of America
stated that Armstrong, premier Of
the province, had done all possible &c
bring about an amicable settlement
he stated what every class conscious
workers in the district know to be
! lie.