davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
The AmGlgamated Victory

The determined file the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers congratulated for its notable triumph
the International Tailoring company After 19week struggle
the strikers go back in united bloc victOrs The strike
provoked by the efforts of the International destroy the
large the demands of the
aors recognize their union There but available
against such attempt-the strike.
Always ready play the debang role of scabs in order
Amagamaed the United Garment Workers. affiliated
with the A. F. of L. travesy unionm tried to fill
the places of the strikers
The usual injunction issued against the strikers but the
injunction ignored and the pcketng of the plant continued
the early days the strike the Chicago Federation of Labor
supporting it and protesting against the action of
the United Garment Workers William Green president of the A F.
of L. informed Fitzpatrick and NOcke respectively president and
secretary of the Chicago Federation that the Amagamad
sdeed union and the duty of the Chicago Federation
support the United Instead of exposing the vile role of Green
president the Chicago Federation following his usual policy
of trucking every eacOnary whim of the labor euenants of
capitalism with statement uphOdng the Green policy
this reputation did dampen the ardor of the strikers
them than With the support of
Amagamaed locals of the left elements the trade
unions the workers continued the struggle and their triumph
the labor takers well the International
Tailoring company
THE DAILY WORKER cOngratuaes them their victory
that vindaes their claim the interests of the
workers in the mems tailoring industry in Chicago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13

Reports Workers of the World convention
that subordinate industrial union convention proposal
made that the W. W. should declare that it is primarily
revolutionary organization only econdarly labor unon
committee which Harrison George CHANGED to be
proposed the substitute that thee conflict between
proletarian revolution and industrial unionism."
The substitute adopted But the general convention turned
thumbs this which contains the of wise
correction gang mistake in w W. theoyhe idea that
there is rigid dividing line between politics and economics
consequent leaning side another the individual
wobby setting functions and forms of organization
necessarily hostile Deccs evidently foreign to these otherwise
informed workers
The who proposed that the T. W. w Ordinarily" a
revolutionary organization actually wants to be political party
what it if it isn't labor unOn 1t queer but true
that the w. W. is turning away from industrial unionm
luton before the convention provides for aboshng the small in
dustrial unions for recruiting union-whch is political
ganizaon reality This should be killed We hope the
ion will kill it, tho they have with Harrison George
who sharply opposed it in the lower body
The w w preamble the industrial unions must be
only for the everyday struggle but also carry
production capitalism shall have been overthrown Who's
overhrowing? The worker who wants the W. w.
political party the economic organization but tries
away with industrial unions The Communist says both unions
and party necessaryhats why there is mo conflict"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
Another Recruit for Morgan

there depth Of depravy to which the ocadom of the
Labor sink? Just when reconcile
accepting naueag event the lowest level in
any being gove other official craws be-
meath him.
The belycrawlg stunt is that Of Matthew Wo vice
Federation of Labor who horned in
money allies in place Of who should have
yet ready He for modification
debts thus enabling the fascist tyranny of Mus
reestabsh credit system He states that Italy and
deprived of the ability pay international
obligations the thru injury their productive
currency ignorant attack Senator
stating that representative of industrial capital is
responsible enmy against European peoples by demanding
of debts.
before gmatze the role of Borah
the spokesman policy the small indusas
doomed failure That neither here there in the
consideration of the role of Matt WOn
argument the open and brazen formulation of the
policy Secretary the Treasury Mellon Secretary of
President Coolidge and the House of Morgan
Italian debt based liberty bonds sold the public
country The bonds be Debated and their holders will
the Italy of Mussoin must be given
portuny reestabh credit that the plethora of gold flow
ing the hands of the mpea despots of this country can be
renvested country longer the rising tide of
the proletaran revolution.
Vol who berates the Communists with the
legend that they subsidized by Russia His of action has
Long beyer of the organized and
of this country he tries to his masters
recruit their foreign propaganda department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13

he camp of the class enemy. That
S another question entirely. Beside
he point of this discussion, also, is
The matter of investments in real es-
tate and industrial securities, which
often make millionaires of even the
most respectable" leaders (such as
the deceased John Mitchell of the
miners union). But such a man as
Brindell, of the New York building
trades, in addition to his Illegal activ-
tiles, drew a strictly legal salary Of
$4,000 per annum.
1t may be imagined by some that
CHS, repeated for a number of other
examples, would exhaust the story,
But no. Salary is only the beginning.
In addition, each of these aristocrats
received a nice fat "expense account"
This account ranges in size from a
few thousand per year, to tens and
even hundreds of thousands.
An example, taken at random from
one of the smaller unions: In the re-
port of the Sheet Metal Workers
Union to the 1924 convention, it is
shown that President Hynes received
during the year, in addition to salary
of $17S75, expense money to the
amount of S24,O7O.74, or total of
more than fifty thousand dollars.
Even the minor officials do not fare
so badly in the matter of expense &C
counts. When they are ION the road"
they receive from So to S25 per day
extra. 1t is common law that trav-
cling official must have the best there
is to be purchased without having to
dig into his regular" income. And
the best" in these post-Volstead
days, costs a lot OF money.
DEHIND these millionaire in
IL comes" paid to these labor lead
ers" out of the dues of the member
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13

Coolidges cabinet The. annual pay
checks Of Andrew Mellon, secretary of
the treasury, and Herbert Hoover, sec
rotary of commerce, combined would
still fall short by $1,000 of that of Mr..
Premier. The salary of the governor
of South Dakota, for eight years,
would still be less than Prenter's sal
airy for one year, Prenter's salary is
mountaineering times that of the gov
errors of Massachusetts, of New
York, of Pennsylvania, and of Ohio,
and more than twice as much as that
of the governor of Illinois. These are
the greatest and richest states in
America. 1t would require a capital
of more than half a million dollars
invested in government bonds to pro
duce the income that PREMIER receives
from the union.
A ND how about the other big-bugs
\ of the labor movement?
There is William Green. He in
herited from Samuel Gompers not
only the title of president of the
American Federation of Labor. He
also took over an annual salary of
$4,000.
This is the same amount that is
paid by the U. S. government to the
members of the presidents cabinet. 1t
is the same as that of the governor of
Illinois. 1t is greater than the salary
of any of the other governors of the
4S states in the United States. 1t is
four times the salary of the governor
of South Dakota 1t is 20 per cent
more than the salaries of admirals in
the U. S. navy and of generals in the
U. S. army.
Then there is William G. Lee, head
Of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men. Not content with his private
position as president of a great rail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13

road equipment manufacturing con
Germ, he draws salary from the
union Of $4,000 per annum. This puts
him in a salary-class above the presi-
dental cabinet members of the u
S. government, higher than all the
state governors, and 40 per cent more
than the highest officers of the u. S.
army and navy.
Numerous of the national labor
leaders are in the $4,000 per year
category. Among the most prominent
are the presidents of the railway
clerks, the railroad conductors, the
bricklayers, the street railway en-
Dloyes, and the secretaries of the A.
F. of L., the locomotive engineers, and
the trainmen. Only a small handful
of the most select capitalist govern
ment officials are in salary-class
above these prosperous labor leaders
IMAGES of workers in industry are
w being steadily reduced. Not sc
the salaries of our labor union offici-
ais. There is the case, for example,
of Daniel Tobin, president of the
Transfers Union. UP until Septem-
Der this year Tobin received a mig
gardly $4,000 per year. But at the
Seattle convention, this salary was
raised, in appreciation that Tobin was
Just as good as his colleagues, to
$4,000 This little appreciation"
placed Tobin ahead of all the heads of
the U. S. government except Coo
lidge, considerably ahead of the
state governors, and so
per cent higher than the leading offic-
ers of the u S. army and navy.
Many local officials receive even
higher rewards than the national
leaders. We are not, of course, re-
ferring to Illicit and secret rewards
for service rendered that come from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13

day for young workers exists in Rus
STA. The young workers have the
greatest opportunities for cultural
and political development.
5. "Work and save" is a mockery
for the workers. The harder the work
ers toll the less they get and the
more the bosses get. The toll of the
workers means the wealth of the
bosses.
6. Thrift spells prosperity is
delusion for the workers. 1t makes
them believe that they can be saved
from their miserable conditions thru
thrift Only thru overthrowing the
bosses thru the proletarian revolu-
ton, can the workers free themselves.
Slogans.
The natural resources belong to the
toilers-away with the thieves, the
capitalists!
Abolish child labori
A 5-day week and a 6-hour day for
the young workers!
Long live Soviet Russia-the work
ers' republic! Defend the Soviet
Union against the attacks of imper-
ialism!
Down with capitalist militarism and
warl
The products of the workers toll to
the workers! Away with the para
sites!
Down with capitalism!
Join the Workers (Communist)
Party!
Join the Young Workers. (Commun-
st) League!
Join the Young Pioneers of Amer
lea!
Friday, Nov. 10, "Know Your School
Day"
The American schools are the
strongholds of reaction.
i. The American schools are fac
tories for turning out blind, obedient
slaves of the bosses.
2. The platoon system (Gary sys-
tenn, etc. is scheme for producing
machine-like unthinking and uncom-
planning workers at lower cost to
the masters. 1t is a reactionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13

dren under workers control ana SUI
pervisionl
Every worker a member Of the
Workers (Communist) Party!
Every young worker a member of
the Young Workers Communist
League!
Every working class child a mem
Der of the Young Pioneers of Amer
lea!
Thursday, Nov, 10, Conservation and
Thrift Day."
The natural resources of this coun-
toy should belong to the toiIers; they
have been stolen by the capitalists.
The conservation of lives Of the
workers. demands the abolition Of
child labor and better conditions for
young workers.
It demands the abolition Of capital
list mIitarism and war.
Thrift is a deIusion and mockery
for the workers. They have nothing
to save.
J.. The conservation of natural re-
sources" means the conservation OF
the property of the apitalists-stol
en- from the toilers. The workers
must seize their stolen resources back
from the capitalists.
2. The workers must see that their
power is conserved. Children must
not be crippled and stunted mentally
and physically to the profit of the
bosses. Young workers must not be
destroyed thru the intolerable condi
tions of life and work. The flower
of the. working class must not be de
stroyed in capitalist wars to the in
terest of the bosses.
8. Under capitalism children and
young workers always suffer worst
from any attack of the bosses. They
always have to endure the lowest con
ditions and the worst of treatment.
A. Under workers rule in Russia
children and young workers have the
best there is. All improvement in the
lot of the workers brings them the
most immediate and the greatest
benefits. No child labor exists il
Russia. The 5-day week and the 6-houl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13

TT is a favorite form of attack upon
the Communists, that we are guilty
of Islander" against the trade union
officials. But no Islander" can be
such complete proof of the unfitness
of these officials to direct the labor
movement as is the information which
these officials furnish about them
selves. For out of the financial re-
ports of the labor bureaucrats comes
the irrefutable proof that these men
have been completely divorced from
the working class They live like-cap-
italists, they eat like capitalists, they
act like capitalists, they draw in
comes that compare very favorably
with the capitalists. In fact they
have become capitalists, of a lower
and servile order, and they become.
more so each day.
One OF the worst features of this
situation is that these officials have
convinced the labor movement that it
is normal" and correct order of af-
fairs So much So that the unions
regularly and as a matter or course
pay salaries to these officials which
alone would make them bourgeois.
The official salaries in the labor move
ment compete successfully with the Of
fetal salaries of the capitalist govern
ment, national as well as state
T EFT us examine the comparative f.
IL nancial incomes of the labor lead
ers and cabinet members, governors,
army officers, ETC.:
There is, for example, the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. The
president of this organization, William
B. PREMIER, receives salary of
$4,000 per year.
This is more than the combined sal
aries of two members of President
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13

Join the Young Pioneers of Amer
lea!
Wed, Nov. 10, "SchooI and Teachers
Day." o
SCHOOLS are the instruments of the
bosses to poison the minds Of the
working class children.
l. Schools are used by the capital
lists to turn the children into good
wage slaves and patriots. Workers
must fight against the capitalist con-
troll of the schools.
2. Soviet Russia, the schools are
in the hands of the workers and are
used in the interests of the working
class to bring up the children in the
spirit of the workers revolution.
8. Children of the rich; have the
best of school conditions; the work
ers' children go to school under the
worst of conditions. re
a. Millions of children in America
cannot get any education at all be-
cause they have to work their lives
away to grind out profits for the
bosses. se 81
5. Millions of children in America
cannot get any education under prop
er conditions because their worker
parents are too poor to clothe and
feed them properly.
6. Teachers are workers exploited
and oppressed by the capitalists;
teachers must not let themselves be
used to poison the minds of the work
ers' children. us
z. The workers must see to it that
their children grow up into militant
md conscious fighters for the prolet-
iriat.
Slogans. 10
Out with the capitalist santi-labor
poison propaganda from the schools
Proletarian parents councils to fight
capitalist domination of the schools!
Defend the Soviet Union!
The organization of the teachers to
fight the bosses!
Against rotten school conditions for
workers children!
Abolish child labor!
State maintenance of school chill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
Our Bourgeois Labor Leaders REnzR srn.
By Earl r. BrOwder

ship, there is quite a definite theory
must pay the officials enough money
10 keep them loyal" so that the gem
erous offers of the capitalists may not
tempt them. This theory found class
ic expression in the words of John L.
Lewis of the Miners Union, when he
pleaded for an increase in salary be-
fore the indianapolis convention of
1921. Lewis said
Mine superintendent are paid
thruout the central competitive field
and other substantial mining districts
amounts nearly equal that paid your
International vice-president and your
secretary. Your officers have to deal
with these men. they are ex-
pected to compete with them in the
industrial field, and surely IL you are
going to regard efficiency and loyalty,
diligence and energy, you will at least
accord them the treatment they would
receive if they worked for mining
company"
In short, the labor unions are told
that they must bid against the CAPT
talists for the services Of their lead
ers." And inasmuch as the American
capitalists are so rich, and have such
a keen appetite for labor leaders," It
has followed that the salaries of the
officials have reached phenomenal
heights
These are the conditions and the
theology which have created of the
labor officialdom of America very
definite bourgeois sub-class, divorced
from the working class in almost
every respect, and functioning by its
very nature as the ideal labor lieu
tenants of the capitalist class"
- q ~ "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
Workers Party and Young Workers League to Combat EduCa" Week

| move in educational methods and is
danger to the workers.
3. The schools are centers for the
propagation of reactionary supersti-
ton and religious dope religious in
struction in the schools, anti-evolu-
ton teachings, etc.
4. In Soviet Russia, the schools
are used for scientific and political en-
lightment of the masses.
s. The workers must fight against
the public schools being centers Of
reaction.
Slogans.
Out with the capitalist anti-labor
propaganda from. the schoolsl
Out with the religious dope from
the schools!
Down with the reactionary platoon
system Gary SYSTEM Better schools
and school conditions for working
class childrenl Schools under super
vision of proletarian parents councils.
Defend the Soviet Unionl Prolet-
arian parents councils to fight capt.
talist domination of the schools!
Join the Workers (Communist)
Party
Join the Young Workers (Commun-
ist) League!
Join the Young Pioneers of Amer
ical
Saturday, Nov. 20, Community and
Health Day."
Service to the working class is the
highest duty of every worker.
Brutal capitalist oppression and sx-
ploitation destroys the health and life
of the working masses.
1. Equality of opportunity is inn
possible when there are rich and poor,
bosses and workers, masters and
slaves. The rule of the capitalists
must be destroyed.
2. Health" talk to workers chill
dren is a mockery when capitalism
condemns the whole working class,
especially the children, to the most
miserable and unhealthful conditions.
3. In workers Russia the first re-
gard is for the health and develop
ment of the workers children and
young workers.
Slogans.
Away with the capitalist parasites,
Only thru the struggle of the work
ers to overthrow capitalism can toler
able conditions be obtained for the
workers children and the young
workers.
Abolish child labor!
Long live Soviet Russia, the work
ers' republic! Defend the Soviet Union
against the imperialists! aee
The poor farmer youth must stand
side by side with the young industrial
workers in the ranks of the Young
Workers (Communist) League!
Join the Young Workers (Commun-
ist) League!
Join the Young Pioneers of Amer.
lea!
Sunday, Nov. Fl, "For God and
Country Day. ~
Religion, capitalist morality, and
capitalist education are mainstays OF
capitalist rule. pl6
1. Religion is opium for the masses
the church and priests are tools of
the bossesl fn1
2. Capitalist morality and capital
list education help to make the work
ers obedient slavesi
3. The workers must rely on their
own strengthen the strength of the
working class
Slogans. e.
Down with religion for the
masses!
Out with the religious dope from
the schoolsl
A class conscious and militant work
ing class must be victorious!
Down with capitalism
Long live the workers and farmers
government in America!
Join the Workers Communist
Party
Join the Young Workers (Commun.
ist) Leaguel
| Join the Young Pioneers Of America!
49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
Continued from page u

Monday, Nov. 10, constitutional Day"
The constitution is the bulwark of
capitalist rule and of the oppression
of the workers.
l. The constitution protects and
maintains the bosses in their exploit
alton and oppression of the workers.
2. The constitution suppresses
every attempt of the workers to get
better conditions and to free them
selves. (Class war prisoners in Amer
lea, etc.
8. The workers must overthrow
the rule of the capitalist maintained
by the constitution and establish a
workers and farmers government as
in Russia. fs
Slogans.
Free the class war prisoners!
Down with the fake justice and
equality of the capitalists!
Against the rule of the bosses!
Long live Soviet Russia where the
workers rule!
Defend the Soviet Union from the
attacks of the imperialistsl
For the rule of the workers.
workers and farmers government in
America!
Join the Workers (Communist)
Party
Join the Young Workers (Commun-
ist) League!
Join the Young Pioneers of Amer
ical
Tuesday, Nov. IL, "Patriotism Day"
Patriotism means slavery and ODE
dience to the bosses; international
solidarity of the workers is the road
to freedom.
1. Patriotism is loyalty to the
bosses who are the workers worst
enemies.
2. Patriotism means fighting for
the bosses and against your brothers
and fellow-workers of other countries
all for greater profits for the bosses,
Patriotism means war, death, destruc-
ton, poverty and starvation for the
workers; wealth, luxury, and power
for the bosses.
3. The American legion (Which is
helping to promote American Educa'
ton Week. is a tool of the bosses to
spread patriotism and militarism and
to be modified against the workers
in their struggle.
4. The boy scouts are organized by
and for the bosses. They poison the
minds of the workers children and
make them into obedient wage-slaves
and patriotic citizens; they are used
against the workers in their strug
giles; they are used to draw workers
children into the capitalist armies to
fight for the bosses.
5. International solidarity is the
union of all workers and oppressed
masses Of the earth for the struggle
against capitalism and imperialism
In this struggle lies the road to the
emancipation of the workers.
6. International solidarity means
the common struggle of all toilers fol
their common interests. The toilers
If all lands must unite to defend the
Soviet Union, the republic of the Rus
sian workers and peasants. w
7. The duty of every worker
young worker, and working class
child is to stand shoulder to shoulder
with their fellow workers in the
struggle against the bosses.
Slogans.
A united front of labor Unity OF
the world trade union movement
For labor party!
War against capitalist wars!
Down with capitalist militarisml
Down with the American legionl
All workers children out of the boy
scouts-into the Young Pioneers!
For the defense and recognition OF
the Soviet Union! srn
Join the Workers (Communist)
Party!
Join the Young Workers lCoumun.
ist) Leaguel III