The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-14
CHARACTERIZATION
But Oppose Attempt to
Make 1t Living Reality
BY j. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

TODAY the current issue of the Locomotive Engineers
Journal energeticay cczes the situations giving rise
ns nous % s raging M ano
Labor But the same issue conesses that the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, of which is the official organ
lives within tender glass house of it's own, with very poor
quality OF glass at that
Warren s. stone chief Of the brotherhood has "Pre
sdents Page covering two pages in which 1.-THE European
saved up $725 and afford spend itgets twenty
three lines and ahead of his report 1.-THE Amaga
Stone 9 hss an bad " nss for s ran,
file members of his organization, working 2766 railroads.
and he doesn't intend to display in large type and any
great length. Here it is:
1.-THE between
working out Of the Chicago Joint Agreement and the
the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers and the sOthsheod Of Loco
motive Fremen and Enunemen met csveand
postpone further action until after the convention the
hood Of Fmen and Ennemen There are certain nurmounb
difficulties in the the time solution
plan anaIsanson 90
thru At the request OF the officers the " l. F. and En- the
ton Chicago held allegiance
the meeting Of their convention In June"
President Stone inform the engineers what 'the
nsurmountable difficulties what attempt is being
made to overcome the These left gathering dust in
get good look at them They might find that 1.-THE
mountabe obstacles the Chiefs in both organizations
with the result that they might sweep them aside in order
to effect real beginning toward amaIgamaton.
On the other hand. Locomotive Engineers Journal
on another page perfectly willing to discuss amagama
It bewaiIs the battle royal between the Street and
Electric Railway Employees and the Brotherhood Of Team
sters and Chaueurs the Jurisdiction of who ope-
ate motor busses"
1t sheds fake bitter conflict between the
International Union of Bckayers and Pasterers and that
of Operative PIasteres and Cement Fnishers, have
locked horns who should do the sucoo work build
ngs."
Then goes about the old conflict between the car
penters and metal workers about the placement of metal
TRIM and the painters have recently entered the tange
strike against either group hanging metal treated by
dip enameng IN the factories rather than painted by hand
on the job"
For these other unions the Engineers journal hypo-
critically argues in favor Of amagamaton opposed to
loose federation but the officials Of the Engineers Brother
hood who dictate the policies of the journal refuse to move
against the craft divisions that divide the engnemen and
femen 1t is easier to preach to others than Il carry
out those preachings in ones own case.
1t is to carry out the principles of amagamation and
not merely to discuss the that inspires Communicated
left wing in the trade unions The officials do not want
acton in fact they bitterly opposed to t. That
why the attack the left wing bitter in those
organizations where the question Of aagamaton is In
foreground OF the struggle
AmaIgamation in the transportation industry is cry
ing need The bitter lessons of the great railroad shop
mems strike when the workers tried to ride sixteen organ
zatons against the weknt forces of the enemy have not
been forgotten. Amalgamation should make headway all
along the ne The members of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers should tell Warren s. Stone In no un
certain manner that good place for him in his
own organization Falling to get action they should push
ahead themselves, leaving him In the writing articles
for an Ex-Presdents Page perhaps about "A Trip to
Europe"