The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-03
AT, OF L.FAKERS
frightened AS
PURCELL COMES
Begin Reading Report on
Russian Visit
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American Federation of Labor, many
of the biggest industrial corporations
in the United States and in all quar-
tiers where the vast Russian expert
ment in working class rule is being
watched, this report is now being
read. Friends and foes are getting
ready for Purcell's visit.
Who Purcell Is.
In the front section of the 250-page
volume containing this latest report
by spokesman of British labor on the
Soviet state, Purcell is described as
a member of the furnishing trades
since 1891; member, many years,
of the social democratic federation;
member of Stafford borough council
six years; sectional secretary. and
then organizer, furnishing trades; par
liamentary candidate, 1910; elected at
Coventry, 1923; successful arbitrator
in cooperative and other labor dis
putes elected by general council,
Trades Union Congress, 1919 and
ever since; elected by Trade Union
International Conference, Vienna,
1924, as president; president at 1924
Trades Union Congress; vice-chair-
man, general council
Open Shopper Is Alarmed.
His reputation has convinced Ralph
Easley of the National Civic Fedora
ton that Purcell and his friend
Wheatley, recent minister of health,
who may also come to Atlantic City,
are dangerous.
The Russian report, however, is
signed by Herbert Smith, head of the
Miners Federation, who was frater-
nal delegate to the Cincinnati con-
vention; by Fred Bramley, secretary
to the congress and to the delegation
in Russia; by Ben Tillett, John
Turner Of the Shop Assistants, Alan
Findled Of the Pattern Makers, John
Bromley, NJ p, of the Locomotive En-
gineers, and by two advisory delegates
who had seen official service in Rus
STA during the war.
A Taste Of the Report.
On page IL of the report Purcell and
his associates give this conclusion on
political affairs: Finally, the dele
cation is of the opinion that the Sow
let system of representation and its
scheme of constitutional and civil
rights, so far from being undemo-
cratic in the widest sense of the word,
give in many respects to the individ-
ual a more real and reasonable oppor-
tunity Of participation in public affairs
than does parliamentary and party
government.
I'm other respects, such participa-
ton is still severely restricted. For
the system has as yet been kept under
close control by its originators with
the tacit consent of an immense ma
jority Of their fellow electors. This
consent can be accounted for partly
by the energy and efficiency with
which these leaders carried the coun-
try thru one crisis after another, and
partly by loyalty to the pioneers Of
the revolution. but this permanence
In power is result of past circum-
stances-not of the present constitu-
ton. Under that constitution there
are certainly as great-and possibly
greater-possibilities than elsewhere
In respect of popular government, poll
teal peace, and social progress"
Regulation Not Truce Of Enemies.
This is sample vr conclusions on
various flelds-economic, industrial,
educational, social, and so forth-in-
vestigated by the British labor veter-
ans. They are as offensive to, anti
radical experts in the United States
as are the opening remarks on labor
conditions:
I'm Russia the workers are the rul-
ing class. In Russia we have a
regulation Of the workers rights that
they have put upon themselves for
their own well-being Elsewhere we
have restriction of the workers
rights put upon them by the wealthy.
Such regulations are in Russia the
result OF agreement between the work
ers and their own expert governors
and. managers to whom they have en-
trusted their institutions and their IN
dustries. their factories and their
farms. Elsewhere such regulations are
the result Of treaties and truces be-
tween the entrenched interests jof a
wealthy ruling class and the assaults
OF a working class that as yet never
rules but only rebels"