The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-12

out now poses as a good Lrdue uulO
most reactionary labor takers of the
A. F. of L. He went into Russia in
| 1922, like some other fools, expect
ing that because he was an /. w. W.,
also an ex-socialist, that he would be
at once made boss of Russia and
would order every Russian worker
about
He was quickly disillusioned. No
body paid any attention to him. He
was nuisance and a cry-baby In
stead of cleaning up the lice in his
quarters like everyone else, he only
made one more. He remained on a
few weeks, then came back.
Carpenters Local 60 Also UnfeeIina.
His local union, Carpenters No 81,
gave him the horse-laugh when he
tried to speak. Now his snaky lies
published in the street Garments pap
er have brought the following two let
! ters. one from a street carman, an
other from one of Harms compan-
ions in his trip to Siberia. They fol-
low:
Dear Comrades: Enclosed with
this letter you will find a paper, the
so-called Union Leader, supposed to
represent the streetcar men of Chica-
go. But l am a streetcar man who is
being misrepresented by this sheet.
II am not a member of the Workers
| (Communist) Party, but my good
right arm is ready to defend the Com
munist movement now, and as long as
there is a breath of life left in my
body. Even at the time of my death
want one of you Communists to
speak at my resting place, and hope
before that time we will have a world
workers and farmers government.
II read the DAILY WORKER every
day, yet have never found an article
in it about the streetcar men and their
organization. altho the Surface Lines
company violates every agreement
with the men except the wage agree
ment What is the trouble? Are
there no Communists in the carmen's
union?
1.-THE officials of this organization
are about the most corrupt of any un-
ion in America. Come on, you Boil
sheviks, let's get these men started on
their way to the Soviets of America.
about this lying article of Harry
Harm, in the enclosed copy of the
] Union Leader, would like to meet
the dirty skunk who went all those
thousands of miles to Siberia only to
count the lice and bedbugs.
II could take him right here down
State street, from Harrison street,
then over to West Madison and down
to Van Buren, and thru the beautiful
ghettos back of the stock yards, and
he could see as many vermin as in
Russia during its hardest days. Some
of these white guards like Harry Harm
know more about other countries than
they do about this one.
"Our agreement expires June 1, this
year, SO let's get busy educating these
workers.
Down with the reactionary officials
of Division 241i With Mahon, Quin-
Ian, Taber and rest of the those who
stand in the way of progress toward
a Soviet government in the United
States!
yours for Communism,
"a Streetear Man."
Now the letter from Harms compan-
ion in Siberia:
Dear DAILY WORKER: 1t seems
that some of the reacers of the A. F.
of L. publications have been register
ing protests against the continuous
stream of lies about Soviet Russia
sent out by the A. F. of L. News Serv-
ice. In order to quiet and convince
them, the organ of the Chicago Street
car Men, calling itself the Union Lead
er, has resurrected a lying and ridic-
ulous article written some two years
ago by one Harry Harm, member Of
Carpenters Local Union No. 81, of
Chicago.
Harm went over in the spring Of
! 1922 to Kuzbas, an industrial colony
organized with the object Of employ
ing the technical skill of American
workers to aid the Soviet government
in opening up the vast coal and iron
fields OF central Siberia. The men
who went over. all knew that they
were going to a wild region. pretty
much on the edge of the world, where
material conditions of life would be
primitive in the extreme, and also
that they were going to a country just
emerging from famine and civil war.
The first group of all, which was the
one Of which Harm was a member. was
expected to blaze the way for all the
rest--to be pioneers among pioneers
and anyone with any sense knew
that II would not be very easy going.
"If Harm had really been anything
of the pioneer that he fondly and SEN
timentally dreamt he was, instead Of
whimpering six foot four baby. il
he had had the CUTS TO go thru with
| things, instead OF leaving after q few