The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21


with the biggest bankers in Wall
Street. The union also owns mines
in West Virginia and Kentucky, which
they are running non-union. How can
labor unions fight the employers and
be business institutions at the same
time? 1t can't be done. The unions
have legitimate function and that is
to organize the workers for fighting
the bosses, as this is the only way the
boss will be compelled to shell out
part of the loot that he steals from
his employees every day they work for
him. The stronger and the better or
ganized the workers are the more of
their product can they force the boss
to cough up.
Helping the Enemy.
When the unions drop this function.
they simply become organizations for
helping the employers fleece the work
ers. This is the tendency that is grow
ing among labor officials today. We
call it DISQUALIFICATION, which is an
other way of saying cooperating with
the boss in getting as much profits as
possible out of the workers. Does
any rank and file member of a union
believe this kind of policy is to his
advantage? Not if he has any brains
and knows how to use them. This
policy benefits the employers and the
reactionary labor leaders. What the
leaders receive as remuneration may
not be learned until the workers and
farmers Of this country are running
the government and capitalism is gone
the way of the dodo. But we know
that their services are worth money.
Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the
Locomotive Engineers died recently.
He left fortune of $1250OO behind
him. His salary was S25,OOO a year
and he was personally interested in
several business ventures. He was
only beginning to make big money.
Had he lived few years longer, he
would be as wealthy as William Jen-
lnings Bryan.
Not SurprisIneI
Is 1t surprising that those labor
takers should hate the radicals, pro-
gressives and particularly the Com
munists? There is not a labor faker
In the United States who does not
curse William 2. Foster regularly.
morning, noon and night. Foster is
the secretary Of the Trade Union Ed.
ucational League, an organization COM
posed of members of trade unions who
carry on an educational propaganda
inside the unions. One of the princi-
pal slogans Of the T. U. e. L. is
"Amalgamation," that is, joining all
the unions in one industry into one
organization for common action
against the employers. The steps
taken by the pressmen and feeders of
Chicago last week, in ratifying an
agreement for joint action, is a step in
the direction of the fulfllment of this
policy The labor skates have a dead
ly fear OF amalgamation and for that
reason they denounce It morning
noon and night and they tell the world
that the radicals are getting Soviet
gold" TO overthrow this government
and destroy the unions.
"Majah" Berry is one of the gen.
tlemen who hurl this offal at the work
ers' but after you get thru reading
the subsequent articles of this series,
you viii come to the conclusion that
II there was any gold" lying around,
the first to apply for a share Of It
would be this same fake Major"
The next article will give a brief
history OF the efforts Of Chicago Print
Ing Pressmen's Union No. TO force
Berry to stop Iootlne the old-age PEN
sion fund and the war emergency fund
for his shady business ventures.