The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-01
Concerning Jackasses and Other Animals

the A. f. of l.. it must be conceded)
His remedy is so general and ALIEN
bracing, that it cannot be mistaken,
and as he fails to go into details, no
one can trip him up. For years the
l. w. W. has offered over it's counter
the good old remedy Organize on
the job!"
NOW, there is nothing wrong with
that 1t is a perfectly good direc-
ton to put on the label But when
the workers take the wrapping off,
there's nothing in the bottle-for tho
[. w. W. fails to tell them just what
20 do after they are organized on the
job.
"Ah," but Gahan will protest,
didn't l say to take the industries?"
Very true, my esteemed fellow, but
you also objected to instruction! And
you, as editor of the Pioneer, allowed
Welinder to discourage both insur-
rection and the general strike! How
in hell are the workers going to get
this revolution, by immaculate con-
ception? Fundamentalism" again!
NATURALLY, such sociological sur
~ vivals object to feminist criti-
cism of their pre-war ideas and anti
quated theories. Naturally, also, they
find affinity in the labor takers Of the
4. F. of L. officialdom In waging war
on the Communists and the terrible
borers from within" If there wer,
lything needed to convince the mill
ant workers of the necessity of revo-
Itionary work within the unions they
)elong to, it is this general assault Oh
hem as "borers from within" When
ascals want to throw Communists
lut of the unions, it is proof that
Communists ought to stay in-and
work for revolution.
Again stepping off into reactionary
PATHS as dark as his advice to the
Chinese that they must bear with be-
ing shot down, beaten to death in the
cotton mills and tried by foreign ex-
ploiters' courts set up by bayonets on
Chinese soil-all in the interests OF
developing" and advancing" them,
20 does Gahan take the side of craft
union reaction and all it's unholS
brood of labor takers, when he preach
cs Industrial Pioneer, April, 1926,
page 46), that 1T is folly to attempt
the impossible"-in discussing the
question Of revolutionary activity in
the craft unions.
Not only does Gahan lend aid to
the reactionary labor takers by his
advice, whitehead by those /. w. w.
members and sympathizers who are,
by reason Of their jobs being control
led by the A. F. of L., members Of
such unions-actuates them to a pas
sive or even hostile attitude toward
the left wing groups which are fight
ing bravely against the sluggers and
organized machines Of the labor fax
ers. but Gahan goes on to crow over
the set-backs which thfs left wing
movement has suffered in its initial
battles.
lONE battle (even many battles) is
" not war. A war to revolutionize
the trade unions, not to mention war
to accomplish to the overthrowal Of
capitalism, which is a uniformly sue
cessful war, which has no reverses
and no defeats. would be a miracle,
indeed. But Gahan, we must remem-
her, is a "fundamentalist." He be-
lieves in miracles. He sees his pillar
of smoke by day and his pillar of fire
by night. He makes sacrifice before
his god of dual unionism, he knows
that his god is pleased to witness the
reversals of his enemies, for his god
is a vengeful god who permits no
other gods before him.
| SO in his editorial Gahan gloats
that Bill Dunno was thrown out of the
Portland convention of the A. +. of L.