The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-31
Got An Ear Full

Got An Ear Full
Seeing that their brand of cooper
alton was not forthcoming the heresy
hunters decided to sit back and listen,
and they heard much. Brother Better
Ill, the senfle old rascal whose fancies
still turn to thoughts of love. was
graphically described as the fountain
from which most of the difficulties of
this district flow. 1t was stated times
without number that he must go. One
delegate stated that while the general
executive board Illuminated against
Bolshevism and Communism that they
the G. E. B. had made more BoIshe-
viks in two months that Reynolds
could make in life time, that hard
conditions of life and autocracy Gre
ated radicalism and that the respons-
Utility for the radicalism of Detroit
carpenters laid with the G. E. B.
Chief Devil-Catcher. Duffy rehashed
the contents of his lying and insinu-
ating letter to the local unions in
which he connects the T. U. E. L. with
past and present dual unions leading
to the ridiculous conclusion that the
T. U. E. L. is a dual union trying to
take members from the Brotherhood.
stance where the 7. U. E. L. had
taken or attempted to take a member
of group of members from the Bro
therhood he admitted he could not
do so. When asked whether or not
he considered the action of the G. e.
B. in expelling Reynolds without hear
ing accorded with the elementary con-
ceptions of justice and fair play, he
answered, 1--WE obeyed the instruc-
tons of the general convention"
The Praying Organizer
One of the intellectual eunuchs con-
shutting this inquisitorial board stated
that he had prayed" that Detroit
might be organized. General Organ
izer BotteriH has preached at the
carpenters in Detroit for three years
and has ended up by praying" for
police protection and an injunction
against one lone expelled member.
His piety has been characterized by
one member of L. U. 2140 as follows:
Brother Botterill, have heard the
scriptural text come thru your lying
lips while the truth stuck in your
teeth, and have been ashamed and
disgusted." Whether this preying ag-
gregation preachers or prays they
grow sleek and fat by high living from
the per capita tax paid by members
whose most fundamental constitution
al rights they do not respect and on
whose shoulders, along with the rest
Of the toiling masses, rest the edifice
of class society which these parasites
seek to perpetuate.
The T. u. e. L. in it's work of edu-
eating the workers to intelligent class
understanding and action finds able
though unconscious allies in these
hide-bound bigots. Their actions are
animated object LESSONS easily explain
ed to the workers. Botterill has con-
vinced them that he is their enemy
and he must go. The G.. r. b. has
convinced them that they are group
Of purblind autocratic enemies OF the
rank and file, and that the constitu-
ton is a scrap OF paper in their hands.
They have relieved the T. u. II. l.. Of
much arduous toll. May their stu
pidities increase and multiply.
The inquisition signalized the last
desperate efforts Of organized bigotry
to maintain its absolute control. The
heresy. hunts OF organized political
bigotry In the carpenters union sign