The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-18
Workers.Must War on
Officials Surrendering
The Right to Strike
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHI


TODAY, the pet Iaokeys of the Sam oompers who
toadied to him president of the American Federation
Of Labor still the job trying dictate policies for the
American working class.
Among those closest to oompers was the renegade
soos st. John sPSrgU who argues n an article in the
be apprecabe change in A. F. of l. policies under the
regime Of President William Green If any changes develop,
he says they such changes would have taken place
under Gompers had he lived
But spargo cIeverE hides the propaganda poison in
his efuson An adept at sophstry he employs it to the
utmost in his sapper work for the employing class spargo
fe on ubc hs he Includes
not only the transportation industry especially the rail-
uatOn Of President John l. Lewis Of the United Mine Work
Of America in the last great struggle of the coal miners
Of we cannot strike against the government"
Spargo knows whereof he speaks. The efforts Of the
capitalist state to outlaw strikes public utilities the
ground that they constitute direct attack against the
established order is not When the renegade socialist
BRAND before the world war was in power in France he
broke strike of the French railway workers by calling them
to the coors forcing them into the capitalist military
chine thus making the strike treason against capitalism.
1t during the recent short-Ned regime of the Mac
Donald abor-socast ministry Great Britain that secret
plans went thru the department. for the Intervention of
is with this encouragement that the railroad in
Great Britain have been carrying aggressive
paign for wage CUTS
It may be taken for granted that the intellectual stool
pigeon Spago does not speak for himself alone He voices
the sentiments of that great bulk of American abors Off
cadom that is ready to make further and drastic
cessions to the employing class. Spargo writes:
may right to In sense
and admit revolution! There
right ALSO Of
the revolution that mperIs its safety, If it
at not all exagseraton United
America contemplate equanmly
any length upon
railroads mines"
1t isn't difficult to where Spargo and those for whom
he speaks in official power in the labor will be
Spargo with Gompers and the Wall Streets sde
urging participation in the world war; Mogans gold
In the fierce cobats to come when labor will struggle
maintain its standard of living better this whole seq
ment OF the labor win place itself closer than
at the side of the capitalist ruling class
Treason to the whole working class is being committed
by these so-caed Leaders in refusing to pre-
pare for these coming and inevitable struggles When the
A. F. OF /. executive council recently Miami Florida
it reported nothing to do
Down in Washington today, it is reported that agree
ment has been reached the usdctonaI squabbe
whether the street Garments union the union
should have Jurisdiction bus drivers And the fight
to whether the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers should
be allowed to hire nonunon miners in its coal pits still
mains unsettled These instances typical Labors
ofcadom shows its ncapacty in the failure even
the most simple internal squabbIes of the organized labor
movement Instead they destroy every possibility of dis
cipned, organized struggle They all agree on one point
into huge industrial unions must be fought wherever
appears Thus they the best servants of the Bosses
In the meantime the representatives of the great mine
owning interests of the nation meet today in Cleveland
Ohio to discuss the launching of wage cutting and open
shop war against the coal miners union. Capitalism pre-
pares for the offensive against working class Is
time for the rank and file of labor prepare in an
effective counter attack.
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