The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-19
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tenance and forget to withdraw it.
COME years ago the S. L. P. oandi-
- date for president challenged an
opponent to debate on the relative
merits Of their parties. Like a cautious
and methodical person the S. L. P.
standard bearer prepared his debate
before hand. For some reason or other
the debate did not come off, but it
appeared in all it's glory in the Week
ly People, applause, questions, Kisses,
Interruptions and of course the
smashing" and "annihilating" retorts
of the S. L. P. candidate. Everything
was there, even what the opponent
said, everything except the amount of
the collection. A sheet with such
reputation finds a "Bin" Haywood
yarn a palatable morsel.
HE committee for progressive pol
itical action is about to hold
convention. If you do not realize this
fact read Labor" the official organ of
the sixteen standard railroad organ
izations, that founded the c. P. P. A.
IL silence means consent that paper,
is strong for the coming convention
AS matter of fact, outside of J. A. H.
Hopkins, the Nation, and a few social
lists, the entire labor movement is
ignoring the meeting which was once
expected to call labor party of some
kind into existence. The official organ
Of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers is against a third party.
The Nation is grateful to the socialists
for going out of existence, so CRATE
fully in order to leave the way clear
for the new party.
IT was rather self-sacrifcing thing
to do we admit. But then beggars
can't be choosers. When the social.
lists party departed from it's original
mornings. repudiated the class strug-
gle, Joined with the capitalists in max
ing war on Soviet Russia, and found
itselft having a united front with the
department of justice and the bureau
crazy of the American Federation of
Labor it also found itself without a
membership and therefore without
any visible means of support. 1t may
now be given the job of acting as un.
dertaker for the C. P. P. A.
THERE is a suspicion, how we'll
1 founded it may be is hard to say
Just now, that Warren S. Stone, pol
itical leader Of the railroad brother
hods is preparing the ground for af-
fliating his organization with the
American Federation or Labor. A re-
cent eulogistic article Of William
Green, In the Locomotive Engineers
Journal may mean something and it
may not. 1t is worth a thought or two.
The c. P. P. A. is nothing more or
less than non-partisan political com
nlittee, duplication of the A. f. LIS
political apparatus. Stone considers
William H. Johnston, head of the c.
P. p. A. "fathead." A few days prior
to the st. Louis convention of the
c. p. P. A. he blamed Johnston for the
failure of that organization and de-
cided that the engineers would not
be represented at st. Louis. But a
squirt from Doheny's oil can made
him change his plans.
CTONE has called a meeting Of the
- railroad brotherhoods for next
Friday to consider the relations C the
brotherhoods with the C. P. P. A. and
to discuss the political policy of the
rail unions. Stone is not coming to
the conference to make up his mind.
It Is already made up. He is against
third party. not to mention labor
party. No other labor union of any
Importance is for it except the Anal.
gamated Clothing Workers. The Anal
gamated is for a labor party because
it knows there will be no labor party
organized next Saturday in Chicago
Foxy Sidney Hillman, can throw out
his chest and give lip service to class
political action, while Victor Berger
plays the role of Abraham, with the
socialist party Isaac.
BIBLICAL studnets may remember
- reading the tale of old Abraham
who heard voice from heaven which
he assumed was that of the ferocious
Jehovah, ordering ABE" to take his
son Isaac to the top Of a mountain
and roast him on a pile of faggots as
a sacrifice to the lord. The lord must
have sat on a tack or had a quarrel
with his wife, at any rate he was in
a bad humor and took il out on poor
Abraham, who was as disciplined as
Jesuit. Abraham whistled to his
son, told him to chop some wood and
pile II on his back. This was done
and they both hied toward the sacri.
fetal altar In q most tender and
iatherly manner, Abraham, after look.
ing towards heaven and expectorating