The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-19
AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY.

JNILLIAM LEE of the trainmen's
union has announced his inten-
ton to call a conference Of represent
atives of capital and labor" engaged
in the railroading industry with the
object in view of settling all difference
es arising between the wage slaves
and their masters, without resorting
to the use Of the strike weapon. In
practice, the strike, or any form of
struggle against the employing class
has been repudiated long ago by the
official leadership Of the trade union
movement. Even men like Sidney
Hillman Of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers declaring that the strike
Is out of date.
WHAT Lee has done does not diff
w fer in principle from the policy
followed by other brotherhood labor
leaders during recent years. Stone,
who is Lees rival, has blossomed out
as banker, investment broker and
scab coal operator. Every one of the
other railroad union chiefs is equally
willing to join with the capitalists in
running industry, the benefits going
to the capitalists and to the labor lead
ers. Company unionism, in its origin
al form, has not been decided sue
cess. But the trade unions are rapid
ly becoming company unions, in real
ity with the consent and assistance
Of the labor leaders.
MO doubt "Bill" Lee had bunch
IN that Warren S. Stone was plan
ming to call united front conference
of rail workers and employers in the
near future and beat him to it. By
doing this, Lee gets the jump on
Stone, but it is very doubtful If
conference will be held. Lee knows
what he is about and so does Stone.
They are both equally obnoxious to
honest trade unionists, but Lee does
not even try to maintain the camou-
uaAC VI UClu6 q " auO
THAT the president of a large labor
! organization should be able to plan
such a scabby conference and get
away with it shows what mountain
Of obstacles the militants in the
unions have to overcome. With la
Dor leaders drawing salaries Of from
$4,000 to $4,000 year and heavy
investors in industry, it is obvious
that they cannot be expected to fight
for the interests of the poor slaves
who work eight, nine and ten hours a
day for a wage Of four or five dollars.
John BULL is looking at the
u French operations in Morocco with
an anxious eye. France already con-
trolls a tremendous stretch of terri
tory in northern Africa. With the
Spanish forces practically eliminated
II France succeeds in defeating the
Rifians there is nothing to stop her
pushing into the interior as far as
she pleases. Britain does not like
this in the least 1t would not be sur
prising to see a group Of British paci-
fists organize a publicity campaign in
the near future against French atroci-
ties in Morocco.
THE hypocrisy of the professional
Il pacifsts is shown to good advan-
tage in colonial wars of independence.
Not a yelp is raised by them when
the British are ravaging Egypt In
dia and other countries with fire and
sword or when France, or Spain are
committing their barbarities on the
natives of Morocco. The pacifists do
not like to see the big capitalist pow
ers slaughter each other. Neither do
the international bankers. Cutting
the threats of natives seems to be
good sport. Destroying the wealth
of the capitalist powers is another and
entirely different matter,
SOCIALIST writer's and other sap
~ headed scribblers tried to poison
the minds of the American workers
against the Communists during the re-
cent election in Germany by attempt
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