The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-02
LABOR WUECKER
paul Smith IS
i'm GREAT FALLS
Progressioes Defy Meal
Ticket Artist
CspeeIaI . The oaIIy wOrker.l

GREAT FALLS, Montana, March 81.
Paul Smith, the meal ticket disor-
ganizer who succeeded In partially
wreckIng the trade union movement
in Minneapolis and ST. Paul, arrived
here a few weeks ago to perform the
same kind Of destructive feat in Great
Falls. But about all he has accom-
plished so far is winning the praise of
the Anaconda press and exposing him
self to the workers as a species Of
dankey that can bray loudly and use
his hind legs, but has a natural disin-
citation to reform any kind of work.
Smith is mad because the Federal
Labor Union, refuse to go into his vest
pocket and come forth only when the
pie card autocrat gives the word. The
workers from the great open spaces
have taken Smiths measure. The local
paper, Great Falls Town Topics, has
laid down barrage against Smith,
that keeps the Shiny faker, running
for help to the Anaconda Mining Com
pany's press.
Smiths record in Minneapolis, was
exposed in a recent isue of Town Top
les by C. A. Hathaway, Workers Party
district organizer in Minnesota. The
principal accomplishment of Paul
Smith in Minneapolis was to spend
$4,000 Of the A. F. of LIS money and
lift the charter Of the Minneapolis
Trades and Labor Assembly.
When Smith arrived in Great Falls,
he made his presence known to the
capitalist papers and issued state
ment, charging the labor troubles in
this city to the domination by radicals
of the local labor movement.
Smith made his first public appear
ance at the meeting of the Federal
Labor Union where he made short
speech. He requested that a special
meeting of the union be called. Smith
talked for an hour and half, making
a bitter attack on the Commu- sts.
When he got thru, his hearers felt as
if they had been thru a padded cell
house. Baths horst was yet to come.
The chairman called on Steve Ely to
say what he had to say. Steve is as
ready to talk as a street fakir and
selected the l. WV. for attack. BY the
time Fly got thru, the audience had
forgotten what Smith said and the two
/ Trades sounded to them like the rant
ings Of addle-brained medicine men.
Smith informed the officers of the
Federal Union that they had no bust
ness in the organization. This union
has cooks and walters, clerks and
walters in it, somewhat like the Irish
Transport and General Workers Union.
Holding aloft the banner of craft I'M
ionism, Smith delivered his ultimatum
decreeing that the workers must be
separated or else do without a charter.
Why should cooks, walters, clerks,
transfers and creamery workers be
united when they could be worse off
separated? No reason in the world
declared Smith. Ditto, said the Great
Falls capitalist rags.
According to Smith nobody really
belongs to the Federal Union and the
organization should be Immediately
scrambled. This prospect is not to the
liking of the progresives in Great
Falls, so Smith finds his teeth biting
granite rock.
Smiths arrival in Great Falls coin
cides with the exposure of the Black
Magic Oil company which promised
to produce oil where there was no
OIL Perhaps its promoters read in
the bible that the prophets occasion
ally made water gush from a rock with
blow from a rod. The oil magicians
however, legally entitled themselves
to receive $250,0O0 from the public
for stock. They are still at large and
, selling stock at dollar and a half
throw. The supply Of suckers is
decidedly on the wane.
The point in this story is that II. e.
Gallagher, secretary of the Shelter
mems Union is an officer in the Black
Magic Oil company and this is the
gentleman into whose oily hands
Smith intends to place the labor
movement in Great Falls. The board
Of directors OF this fake oil company
is composed of labor takers and
cronies Of Gallagher.
The progressives are determined to
give Smith and his reactionary co.
horts the fight of their lives.