The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31

other sources, principally manage
ments in industries producing COM
modities for any single industry un.
der consideration. .
SOCIAL INEQUALITY, INDUS
TRIAL INSTABILITY AND IN
JUSTICE MUST INCREASE I'M
LESS THE WORKERS REAL
WAGES-coUPLED WITH A CON-
TINUING REDUCTION IN THE
NUMBER OF HOURS MAKING UP
THE WORKING DAY, ARE PRO-
CROSSED IN PROPORTION. TO
MANS INCREASING POWER OF
PRODUCTION"
ITO the intelligent reader this state
= ment will at once appear as a
queer mixture of sound trade union
policy and the most abject sort of
servile trucking to the capitalists.
And this is exactly what it is. a
And it is a document of contra
dictions precisely because of the. con-
tradictions in A. F. of L. policy pro-
duced by the external conditions
which force the workers into struggle
in spite of the attempts of the bureau
Gratis to evade these struggles.
have tried to point out some of
the more glaring of these contradic-
tions by emphasis in the above quo
tation but a better guage of the ex-
tent of these contradictions is given
us by an examination of the comment
emanating from the "intelligentsia,"
the middle class papers and the real
istic upper section of the capitalist
press.
THE liberals are jubilant, particular
= ly that section referred to previ-
ously which in view of the magnificent
and munificent opportunities afforded
for research" and Statistical OBJ
servation" accompanied by huge
stacks of beautiful graphs, curves and
charts, sees itself firmly established as
serious rival to the lawyers as ad-
visers of the labor movement.
Says Evans Clark, in the opening
paragraph Of AN nartieIei heaueed
union labor Takes New View of
Wages: lliw rs0+ 'rf
american labor enters a new
epoch. The trade unions of this
country have now officially runq
down the curtain on irresponsible
warfare and militant warfare and
set the stage for collaboration with
the employers of the nation in soIv-
ing the problems of industry for
THEIR MUTUAL ADVANTAGE.
Emphasis is mine.-W. r. d.
Some of the federation officials are
likewise jubilant. Says President
Green:
This action places American la
Dor in most advanced position on
wage theories. It is a position far
IN advance of any position we have
ever taken before.
OUT Matthew Vol is not so san
- guine. In some things, where a
sort of furtive cunning is required,
he is much more astute than the rest
OF the officials. So during the debate
which preceded the adoption. of the
statement on wages as amended by
the only official with any pretensd to
scholarship, John P. Frey of the
Molders' Union, Vol said:
am led to believe that
the less we have to do with theory
In these matters the better off we
are, because we find ourselves con-
froneed with all sorts Of conditions,
circumstances and environments.
and we find oftentimes that theory
viii lead US nowhere, while our
crude judgement expressed in trade
union activities has gained more for
US.
Won is a worthy pupil Of his late
master-Samuel Gompers.
Like all really cunning takers he
wants nothing in black and white un.
less 1t is entirely meaningless. II is
extremely doubtful If under the lead.
ership OF the veteran Sarnua1 tho