Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-21
Unions and Friends
Are Warned Against
Communists Propaganda
To the Officers and Member of Or
ganized Labor Of Chicago an'
Vicinity.

vicinity.
Greetings:
At the regular meeting of the &c
cutive Board of the Chicago Fe4eld.
ton of Labor held on wednesday,
July Sth. 1928. the numerous aul
various activities and publication Il
the Communists and the worker
Party were thoroughly considered ana
it was decided that an official sta.e-
ment to sent to our affiliated UNION
giving them such information n we
have in reference to this pIapagah"A'
In the first place We wan oui
unions and friends not to be deeeIFe9
by the lelterheads and the names u-'
thereon as evidence that the Cp@mu9-
lists are in any way connected with ~
a part of the labor movement. Iney
principally use ltetefhead ~hlea ''s
in big, bold type Labor Defense
Council. National Office, Federation
of Labor Building, l66 ". Washing
ton ST, Chicago, and the. sa'a:e'
diately under this in faint I;pe"iI !.
ing they have new addfese, II =.
Lincoln ST" Only Dome pers3a IN ten
thousand would look close enough to
see the fraud
Their purpose. of course, L. - cover
their own identity The words Lao,i
Defense Council has a strong appeal
to the unwary and gets The money.
"National Office" ana Federation oI
Labor Building hooks the game Up
with the labor movement nationally
and with the Chicago Federation ol
Labor locally, and by such m'>fepte-
sentation and deception they pfaceC
then to induce the members D. D)n3
fide labor unions to hnance the'i
numerous schemes.
The Communists operate six dliief-
ent schemes for the specific ana
avowed purpose Of causing dlssension
and strife within the local unions ana
any local that resists the dictatorship
of the Communists is singled out ioi
an attack through one or six OF their
schemes.
The main instrument is The so
called "The Daily Worker which Is
used as the character assassin OF any
individual or any group that teslsts
the nefarious practices OF the Com
munists.
The next is the, TRADE Union Edu-
cational League This is the plttall
and the snare for the younger folk
in the unions. The high sounding
title. conveying the impression OF
trade union education, is most decep-
tive because it is not that which 1t
processes to be. 1t is not trade union
education. The name is a misnomer.
Its proper title should be The Com
munist Kindergarten where primer
lessons on Communism are taught.
Then we have the "Amalgamation-
ist," especially created as an every
once-in-a-While weekly publication
whose special mission is to stir up
trouble in printing trades local unions
but Is used anywhere any time, to
give the spellbinders an opening in a
local union to preach the doctrines OF
the Third lnternationale."
The twin baby to the above Is the
publication known as the Progressive
Building Trades which is another
once-in-a-while weekly publication
which appears when an opportunity
presents itself to jimmy their way
into building trades locals.
The next scheme is the launching Of
the american Negro Labor Con
gress," which has been used as a kind
Of merry go-round, that is, ii has
been paraded in the dailies and week
lies and the monthlies through these
many months ana has been used as
one of the main talking points wher-
ever they get Il chance to talk. How
ever the matter has been talked out
and now they must act, 50 the con.
gresS' is to convene some time In
October of this year in Chicago.
Negroes have had some difficulty in
securing membership in some labor
organizations, but let US get at the
facts and see what the real conditions
are. Out of one hundred and fifteen
national and International unions
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor only three have pro
visions in their laws that exclude
negroes and these have seriously coo
sidered in their conventions removing
these distractions to negro members,
and it is hoped in future conventions
their laws will be changed so as to
admit negroes.
All of the declarations of the
American Federation of Labor on the
question of organizing negro workers
has been in favor Of organizing them.
So, fundamentally, the purpose of the
Communists, or their protested inter
est in the negro worker, is not to
organize him where he properly be
longs, viz: into unions affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor,
but to exploit him as means of
creating turmoil and dissension in any
local where they can inject their
program.
And the twin baby to the Negro
Congress- is the Irish Famine II
any of the foregoing programs or
schemes will not give them a foothold
in local union you can gamble that
an Irish man or woman will get into
scrap and fioht like a wild cat if
some Irish situation is not made the
paramount issue of the meeting and
surely we love the fighting spiri; of
the lrish--it is lasting and can be
depended upou--but the sorry thing
about the Communist Irish Famine
Relief is that a few renegade Irish
men will lend their names so that the
Communists may use the suffering
among the workers in Ireland to carry
on their ayowed purpose of splitting
or destroying any union that will not
swallow Communism whole.
Now watch the hysteria the Com
munist propagandistS at 19 So. Lin
coin st. will resort to "a a result Of
this warning to our fellow trade IN
ionists and the abuse and yilifcation
they will resort to will be an eXeellen,
exhibition of the necessity Of uuion
men and women being on guard when