The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
High Tariff Protected
Dinner Pail Fraud Is
Exposedin NewEngIand
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY, William Green, president the American Fedora
ton Of Labor baks little at the great textile interests
of New England crushing the workers under wage
Green's bark will not brighten these open shoppers
Green threatens that he viii carry his fight to the next
congress. But that congress will assemble
months and when does the oongregated political agents
of Wall Street may we'll laugh at this labor official who
recently announced the allegiance of the A. F. l. to the
sterile nonparsan policy of the departed Compes The
wage cutters will have strange grip this congress- that
Green threatens to appeal to-
Again, the textile barons shown themselves able
to combat successfully the labor organizations that have
been set the textile industry especially the reactonay
United Textile Workers Union Of the A. F. of L. stands
solid in its allegiance to chuch and state respectable
the
The rapid development and Capitalization of the textile
industry has far outrpped the ancient methods Of organ
zat'on employed to unite textile labor industrialy
Green's bark might be turned into singing bite if this
oganzatona problem had been solved and the American
Federation of Labor had espoused and successfully
forward struggle for independent political action
TO congress representatives with working class outlook
Green's appeal to the government" and 'the people,"
therefore, falls deaf Schedule K protecting the
proteers Of New England against foreign competition thru
high protective tariff attest the influence of textile capital
to their completely subserviency by claiming that
high protective tariff insured the textile workers good wages
went into effect The workers of New Engands mills
learned that high wages do not follow in the high
Butler, and his political Iackey Cal Coolidge, have
make the workers believe Instead Green bitterly declares
that mo other industry the United States has
industry"
OCneuue
essed to the meager wages paid their slaves For instance
there the story of the operator running rs
chimes knitting $50 dozen pairs of socks daily receiving two
cents per dozen pairs. This claimed lowest
price pair for finished socks paid operators anywhere
turnout the world Thus the item Of labor in the finished
products of the textile mills is very low One-ouh of
hosiery and knit goods produced in the United States go
forth over the world to compete successfully with the goods
produced by underpaid labor of other countries
Since this Schedule K into effect protecting the
profits of the expoers there have been many wage
ons chief among them, however, being recent reduce
ons OF 10 imposed upon the workers n face of
the fact that stock dividends ranging from so 1000 per
cent had been voted by certain of the textile corporations
will not profit the workers that President Green pro-
claims that this reduction is Economically morally
wrong Green is an adept in the of phrases. But
phrases empty where there power back them up
Profits not wrung from textile labor the basis sen
mentality.
New England textile labor will make its class power felt
when organizes for independent political action in labor
party when the workers organizations in the industry are
anaganated and solicited. That task that the Work.
(communs) Party every possible effort to aid
textile labor achieve That is the way that can turn
Ineffective bark into a much-dreaded bite