The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-23

AS WE SEE II
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

A LII that glitters is not gold. La
"A Dor leaders are more often than
not labor misleaders. Things must
never be judged by their names, no
more than the worth of an individual
can be judged by the button he may
wear on his coat. An institution
known as the Workers Education
Bureau is now holding a convention
in Philadelphia. Another case of mis-
taken identity. The intellectual hash
that will come out of this goosestep
institution will not be workers educa-
ton, but the kind of dope that lulls
the minds of the workers into a salts
fed sleep.
OCOTT NEARING tried to inject
~ breath of the class struggle into
this conference by the capitalist
agents, Matthew Vol, Frey, Perkins
and Maurer He created as much
CONSERVATION as if he had appeared
on the platform, with smoking
bomb in each pocket and squirted
liquid fire into the eyes of the respect
able labor takers whose mission it is
to disembowel the Workers Educa-
ton Bureau, extract everything that
smells of the class struggle from it's
system and leave nothing but the bu-
reau. This could be conveniently
dropped after a while, as William
Green dropped Chester Wright and
other liabilities inherited from Com
pers.
WORKERS education, in the opin-
W ion of the bureaucrats of the
American Federation of Labor means
nothing more or less than course in
industrial etiquette, which would
teach the workers how to behave in
the presence of their masters, beat
their foreheads on the ground without
however impairing their ability to pro-
duce surplus values, and grasp the
theory of class collaboration which
tells us that the interests of the CAPT
talists and the workers are identical,
leaving the management of those in
terests to the bosses as well as the
determination of how much of the
product of industry should go to the
worker.
THIS is the kind Of stuff that will be
injected into the minds of the work
ers by this goose-steD university of
the labor Takers Scott Rearsns,s point
of view was as repugnant to Vol and
Perkins as it would be to Nicholas
Murray Butler. Yet this is the con-
ference that Dennis Bait, only recent
ly member Of the national executive
committee of the proletarian party,
hailed in his fake sheet, the Detroit
Labor News, as marking new epoch
in the American labor movement"
DAFT was once so revolutionary
- that the Workers. (Communist)
Party looked pale pink in his eyes.
At the first convention of our party
Bait and the two other leading men,
bers of the proletarian book stores
company, stood on their toes and
hurled revolutionary birthstone at the
"reformists" who brought the Com
munist movement out of its illegal
lied existence, where it was driven
by the Palmer raids in 1920. But the
Workers (Communist) Party is today
the only American section of the
Communist international, while Bait
is highly appreciated member of the
republican party, and one of the most
slavish bootlickers for the labor fax,
ers on this continent.
Ills editorial in recent issue of his
IL paper, which fulsomely praises
the Workers Education Bureau is
headed, "A New Era in the Unions"
The gist of the editorial is that edu-
cation has been neglected in the past
by the labor movement of this coun-
try. Our labor leaders were obliged
to gain their knowledge from personal
experience. Other educational move
ments of a working class character
were too narrow in scope, but the
W. T.. b. has the A. f. Of L. behind it.
1t may have shortcomings real or
imaginary" Obviously imaginary, ac-
cording to Mr.. Bait, and no doubt