The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
BY HARRISON GEORGE

to be no good reason for the 18th
general convention of the l. w. w.
having picked out a poor fish to be
the general secretaryStreasurer pro
tempore of the organization.
Unless, of course land l have some
suspicion that tits true), the fellow
workers who placed him in the seats
Of the mighty, expected that said poor
fish would, in his anxiety to make
the most of his little "brief authority"
swell up with desire to hear himself
talk as the REAL THING IN WISE
GUYS, and, naturally, while talking,
expose to all the world that he has
too little sense to advise the workers
to come in out Of the rain, and a con-
fused idea of utopian dogmas which
he grandiosely imagines- is a revolu-
tionary theory.
Expectation Realized
II the fellow workers expected this,
they were not mistaken, nor disap-
pointed. The poor fish has not ceased
to be poor fish because he became a
big fish, and in lecture upon the sub
ject of Dictatorship or Liberation"
recently reviewed in the DAILY
WORKER, completely expose his the
Oretical nakedness.
This horrible example Of anarcho-
syndicalism is probably wholly un
aware that he made a fool of himself
and doubtlessly thinks that his eva
sion OF logical points, his distortion of
both the facts and the theories of the
Russian revolution, and his pompous
Nominations agains politicians"
served we'll enough as a substitute of
sense, proletarian truth and desire
to clarity and inform. But there we're
many good wobblies in the audience
who were not so sure Of that, in fact
some say so.
For the benefit Of those who could
not attend the painful affair, and as a
faithful Characterization Of what an
archo-syndicalist ideas are, whoever
speaks them and Whenever or where
ever they are spoken, have trans
lated from the official organ of Lo-
cal No. /, of the Carpenters and Hel-
pers' Union Of the Railway Workers
Confederation of Mexico, the follow
ing dialogue between syndicalist and
a sensible worker.
The MuddIe-Head international
Some will cavil, presume, that
foreign" argument should be brought
in to explain the lecture at the l. w.
w. forum in Chicago on Dictatorship
or Liberation" but anarcho-syndical-
list theory is the same the world over
and foolishness is foolishness regard
less of geography. There is, it will
be seen, an internationaIism even
among muddle-heads. And as this lit
tie dialogue Eliminates so precisely
the foolish arguments of the lecture
against dictatorship. which took no &C
count of what class may hold the die
tatorship. give Il to the reader with
the explanation that opens with the
sensible worker asking the syndical-
is the following question:
go. then. you are syndicalist, and
HDSTLtIltus
Exactly.
Both ut once or successfully?
Both at once.
"And how IL that possible?
Simply. That explains itself: am
q syndicalist because all power must
go to the unions; | am a liDertarian
because l am against all power. It is
very clear. g
do you think so? l. on the con-
rary, have to confess that have I'M
derstood nothing.
because you lack intelligence. All.
II you were only capable OF under
standing individualized unionismi :. T.. {.
Really. that is too much for my
poor intelligence. But let us return
to libertsrian syndicalism. that. now.
is very hard
mo. 1t is very simple. am against
Dictatorship. it matters not of what
party. / think that syndicalism or
unionism Is enough Of itself.