The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-18
RIVAL TAKERS (
QUARREL over !
ADVERTISING
Merchants Are Warned
of Union Labor News

The gayety of labor circles in the
windy city is nourished considerably
during this exciting week by a letter
from Edward Nockels, secretary of
the Chicago Federation of Labor to
the merchants Of Chicago, warning
them not to patronize a fake labor
sheet known as the Union Labor
News which is of doubtful legitimacy
and of still more doubtful circulation.
The Union Labor News once stood a
good chance Of smuggling closer to
the A. F. Of L. pap than the official
organ of the Chicago Federation Of
Labor, then the New Majority, with
an editor who carried some gray mat
ter in his garnet, but now named the
Federation News and edited by per-
son who is not intellectually qualified
to write for a catalog to a fake oil
company. In those days John Fitz-
patrick and Edward Nockels were
listed as radicals and they offended
Pooh Bah Gompers, who commission
ed his lord high executioner Emmett
Flood to chop their heads on. But
"Koko" Flood was wise in the ways
Of labor takers, being one himself, 30
he seized on the trick of writing let
ters to the Union Labor News prais-
ing that sheet for its fidelity to the
principles Of the American Federation
of Labor and taking slam at other
organs allegedly labor that were using
up space supporting Soviet Russia.
The paper slammed was the New
Majority. This meant move advertis.
ing revenue for the Union Labor
News.
The Union Labor News edited then
as now by a couple Of disreputable
creatures held up Fitzpatrick, Nockels
and Buck, to the light, as a trinity OF
red, dangerous Bolsheviks. 1t is pro.
bable that this kind of thing broughs
in the shekels in those days.
Dropped The Toads
But when Fitzpatrick and Nockela
decided to compete with the Union
Labor News in the game of Bolshsvik
batting, dumped every progressive
principle they ever stood for and Of.
fered their necks as footstools for
Pooh Bah Gompers, Emmett Flood
dropped the Union Labor News as fl
thy specimens of its kind are usually
dropped by those who use them, when
all the political juice is squeezed out.
The Federation News was now pull
ling the anti-Bolshevik stun much bet4
ter and with greater effect than its
rival. The Union Labor News gang
were out of luck and also out Of argu-
ments.
The Union Labor News Is a hold-up
sheet. 1t tries to get the merchants
to advertise and when they refuse, IL
threatens them with vengeance. Some
Of hem yield to this pressure. Bust
ness men who are not yet ready to
fork out money for fighting bolshe-
vism" might come across rather than
be boycotted. OF course the Union
Labor News that is bluff that could
be called very easily. But individual
businessmen are timid and also ig-
norant.
Don Qulxote To The Rescue
Now the secretary of the Chicago
Federation of Labor has come to the
aid of the blackmailed employers and
is soliciting information that will en-
able it to bring the culprits into court
and bring more advertising to the
Federation News.
The Federation News and the Union
Labor News have copied the Burns
style in attacking the Communists.
The Federation News rewrites lying
yarns from the Chicago Tribune con-
cocted by that organs liars in Riga
and Berlin, telling OF fabulous sums
Of money received by the American
Communists from Moscow. And
Nockels is responsible for this stupid
lying. When he denounces the Union
Labor News for resorting to shady
methods 1t is only a case OF the pot
smeering at the kettle for its black
ness.