The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-02
AS WE SEE 1T
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bedtime story books for something
like this and you will not find it.
THE anthracite miners have beer
4 accustomed to winning wage in
creases during recent years. This
was Lewis trump card at the last
international convention. A labor
leader who continues to secure wage
increases for the members of his
union is going to stay put even if he
were guilty of every crime in the so.
cial calendar from eating garlic to
getting in to his Office at 1870 in the
morning. But he is fathead leader
if he honestly believes there is no limit
to his ability to succeed indefinitely
in securing wage increases.
BOSSES are no more willing-as a
u general rule-to grant wage in
creases because the union officials
whom they deal with are, reactionary
than if they were radical There may
be exceptional cases when fear Of a
radical development in the union may
compel the employers to adopt such
course, as i choice between two
evils. Whoever takes, money out of
the boss's pocket is his enemy The
fact is that the reactionary officials
are less capable of forcing wage in
creases than the radicals. This was
demonstrated by the British miners.
Only when circumstances are ex-
tremeiy favorable do the crawling
methods of the reactioparies succeed.
1t is quite evident that John l..
Lewis has made an awful mess of the
anthracite strike, but the miners, not
he will suffer.
THE Coolidge organization in the
4 house. of representatives must Sc
cure a new chairman for its commit
tee on public buildings. The gentle
man appointed by Alice Roosevelt's
husband-that's his business-Nich-
olas Longworth by name gave the
Job to Kentucky solon whose lung
power was able to compensate for his
mental vacuity. A loud voice is half
the. battle in politics-ca capitalist poll
tics of course-brains are a decided
handicap. The appointee, like most
capitalist politicians was not averse
to making a little money on the side,
so he leased whisky for bootlegging
purposes. The story does not say
whether he leased it from one of
Andrew Melons distilleries. Con-
gresham Langley-that's his name
may have to think it over lin Atlanta
for two years. And, then, he may not.
NEGRO labor leaders are conducting
l campaign to organize the Pull
man porters. The company comes
forth thru various channels and tells
the world that the poor porters are as
happy as a movie acTess-on the
5creen-walking towards the setting
sun. with the once poQr hero-now
rich of course-driving away the mos
quitoes with his Montana hat. The
only bug in the porter's hammock,
just now, declares the Pullman com
pany, is the embryonic Union. Strange
to say however the poEters are join
ing the new union, despite their al
legged happiness.
THE Negro workers need the help OF
4 the trade union movement badly
Tho the prejudice against them, at
least in the northern part of the
country, is somewhat exaggerated in
our opinion, it is undoubtedly true
that the reactionary labor leaders
have neglected them. 1t is a. hopeful
sign of the times that young Negro
workers are now coming forward to
perform so essential a task The
present effort to organize the porters
shows what dominating part is
played by class division among the
Negroes.
ME find Negro lackeys of the CAPT.
W talist parties and hired flunkeys
of the Pullman company, leading the
fight against the union. This is a de.
velopment which cannot help but
sharpen the class consciousness of
the Negro workers and gradually con-
vince them that even tho they are
Disseminated against because of their
color and their comparative recent
status as chattel slavess the main rea-
son for this attitude taward them is
their lack of organization When
they are in position to fight their
real foe-the capitalist by side
with their white brothers, a quick
change will take places