The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-24
AS WE ST.
BY T. }. o'FLAHERT

IMHAT has happened to the grand
W plan Of William Lee, president of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, which provided for the calling of
a conference between rail workers
and their employers for the purpose
Of eliminating strikes in the transpor-
tation industry and breaking down
the wall Of misunderstanding that
separates the employees from their
masters? This is the way Lee chants
the dirge. The rail workers and their
employers are Of the same family,
says this human toad, and their scraps
are only family quarrels.
MOT that Lee is much worse than
~ the rest of the labor skates who
are engaged in the business of sell
ing the railroad workers. He Is a little
bit more extensively frank, perhaps.
The DAILY WORKER quoted from an
article in the Switchmen's Magazine,
in which Cashen, chief Of the switch
men, said some very harsh things
about Lee. In fact, he charged him
with being strikebreaker and with
employing stoolpigeons to spy on
members OF, his own organization, with
view getting them fired by their
employers.
T ABOR takers are the same all the
~ world over. The American section
of fakerdom is better paid than the
capitalist lackeys in other country.
The American capitalists can afford
to pay their flunkies generously. But
even in poverty stricken countries the
skates are getting along nicely. Some
Of those birds of prey mouth revolu-
tionary phrases while engaged in the
business Of betraying the workers.
In Mexico Gales is using the Wall
Street club on those that placed him
in power. Tho he pretends to be So
cialist, Gales is highly thot off by the
house of Morgan, which uses the
president of the American Federation
of Labor as liason officer with the
Mexican labor leaders.
TON MOORE is the leading labor
4 skate in Canada. The capitalist
governments no longer has any quarrel
with those fellows, who it sometimes
happens that leading faker may
criticise some particular administra-
ton. But that is by way of exercis-
ing his rights as citizen and because
some other capitalist political group
can offer something better.
TN England the leading capitalist
L labor lieutenants are ]. H. Thomas
and Ramsay Macdonald. To his credit
be it said. j. H. Thomas does not pre-
tend to be a socialist but Macdonald
does There is not the slightest differ
ence in the attitude of both flunkeys
towards the master class. Even Ire
land has a finished specimen of this
type in the person of Thomas John
son. 1t is merely an accident of birth
that he happens to be an Englishmen,
hailing either from Manchester or
Liverpool. But the revolutionary Irish
workers do not scorn Johnsn because
he was born in England. They detest
him because he is one of the slimiest
traitors that ever rose to prominence
at the expense of his class.
JOHNSON was the only labor leader
y in Ireland who supported the Bril-
fish Empire during the war. He was
opposed to the Easter Week revolu-
ton which was initiated and led by
James Connolly. He has been a wet
blanket on the Irish working class
since and the most distressing fea-
ture of the situation is, that old com
rades OF Connolly who occupy leading
positions in the labor union and labor
party which he built, support Johnson,
tho he was forced to confess In re-
/, cent libel case that he was opposed
ITO all that James Connolly stood for
lThe Irish workers will learn to rid the
labor movement of Johnson and also
df those who prefer to stand with
johnson, despite his reputation of the
principles to which Connolly devoted
his life and for which he died.
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