The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-03
LIBERALS Tell
BOSSES How TO
SWEAT WORKERS
Economists ShOw Their
Color at Convention


professors. belonging to the
American Economic Associa-
ton, the American Statistical
Association, the American Farm
Economic Association, and the
American Association for Labor
Legislation, has adjourned after
listening to some two hundred
speeches by financial, labor,
agricultural, and statistical "ex-
perts."
The professors, including a
sprinkling Of former members
of the socialist party and fol-
lowers of the LaFollette third
party movement. discussed such
subjects as how to get the most
work out of the laborers at the
least cost, how to prevent
strikes, and how the employers
can increase profits and reduce
wages.
Glass Collaboration In Action.
The packing trust was well repres-
ented in the convention. as were other
powerful financial interests. c. H.
Crennan, of the Continental and Com
mercial National Bank, was in charge
Of the publicity of the convention.
L. D. H. Weld, Of Swift and Co., was
chairman Of the committee on ar
rangements The City Club, the Cor
don Club and the Woman's City Club
co-operated In the handling of the
convention, and J. F. Bowman repres-
ented the association Of commerces
Victor A. Olander. secretary Of the
Illinois Federation Of Labor, rubbed
shoulders with the directors of large
corporations, speaking before the
American Association for Labor Legis-
lation, which prevents all labor legis-
lation 1t possibly can, on the subject,
obstacles to Protective Labor Organ
lzation" Ernest G. Draper, treasurer
of Hills Brothers Co., Of New York,
was chairman OF the session at which
Olander spoke.
Serve Employers Interest 100 Pet.
Liberals, socialists and former So
cialists, LaFollette followers, and
large employers formed united front
at this convention Of bourgeois and
petty bourgeois inteilectuals which
discussed the problems of labor"
only as they related to the interests
of the exploiters and employers. Paul
T. Cherington, of the ]. Walter Thomp-
son Advertising Co. of New York,
spoke on Advertising" and during
the same session Howard Woolston,
of the University of Washington, for
merly member of the socialist party,
discussed "The Limit Of American
Population"
Olander, Florence Kelley, the former
socialist, now in respectable company,
and Elizabeth Christman. secretary of
the Women's Trade Union League,
spoke side by side with Thomas /.
Parkinson, listed as FIRST official
draughtsman of the U. S. Senate"
and Columbia professor. Warren H.
Wilson, of the Presbyterian board
home missions, Burchard, educational
publicity specialist" of Chicago, and T.
N. Carver, at present on Coolidge's
agricultural commission which is tell
ing the farmers that they are pros
porous, joined with A. A. Golden
weiser, of the socialist party, in dis
cussing how economics, agriculture
and culture can be taught in the
colleges so as to best please the en-
ployers and confuse the workers.
II. Parker Willis, of Columbia Uni.
versity. who writes articles for the
largest Wall Street journals and John
X. Commons, the liberal" LaFol-
lette's mainstay In Wisconsin and
formerly a member OF Frank p.
Walsh's commission on Industrial re-
lations. made common cause with the
capitalists at this convention.
Piece Work sweats Worker Better.
An example OF the gush that was
spilled by these learned" professors
at the convention is seen in tho speech
OF Elliot Dunlap Smith OF the Den
nison Tag Manufacturing Co. Smith
admitted that piece work is used sole
iy to get the maximum production
out OF employees, and that profit shar.
ing" and "employe representation" are
thrown to employees as sops TO secure
increasing richness Of voluntary ef-
fort In addition to the forced efforts
OF our workers" in speech before
the American Economic Association.
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