The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-05

AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTV

TN an address before the department
i Of subversive movement Of the Ma
tional Civic Federation on July 1S,
last, Ralph M. Easily, executive head
of the federation praised the social
its and the leaders of the American
Federation Of Labor, but laid the rod
of chastisement vigorously to the I'M
patriotic hides of the Communists and
the Industrial Workers Of the World
Some superficial people, said Easley
saw no differenc except technical
one between the Communists and the
socialists. Hasley is right when he
says the difference is fundamental.
YTNHIS is how he clinches his point:
i ANY student of current socialist
and Communist literature can well
understand that, should 1t ever be
necessary for our government to turn
the machine guns on the Communists,
the firing would be Of the most deadly
character If the socialists were per-
nitted to man the guns" There is no
doubt about this. The socialists of
Europe have manned the guns of the
capitalists against the Communists
and thousands OF good working class
leaders were murdered by them. What
they did in Europe they would do in
America.
"A NY organization that wins the ap-
"A proval of capitalist stoolpigeon
like Ralph M. Easley Is naturally an
enemy Of the working class. The Ma
tional Civic Federation was organized
avowedly to block the progress of
radicalism in the American labor
movement. Sam Gompers was one of
its leading lights. Gompers wined and
dined with the enemies OF labor and
Joined with them in preventing the
trade union movement for making an
effective fight against the capitalists.
Green is now taking Gompers' place
tho not officially on the National
Civic Federation, perhaps owing to an
old law passed by the miners union,
that no members Of the union can
be a member of the National Civic
Federation.
T7ASLEY'S TRADE against the Com
II munists ends with: Cali honor to
American labor" and the concluding
paragraph reads: what would Eng
land not give if her labor movement
we're as solidly and Loyalty anti-Bol-
shevik as is ours! Think of situa-
tion where proud Britain is afraid
to resent in the slightest degree the
diabolical plotting of the Commun-
fists against her in India and China
for fear of a general strike which
would not only paralyze her industries
but would place in jeopardy the life
of the empire as we'll"
ONE of our subscribers makes the
~ charge that nine times out of ten
we center our attack on the ku klux
khan, tho in his opinion the Knights of
Columbus is worse than the X. X. X.
We agree that its intentions, as far
as the progress of the working class
movement is concerned, are no better
than those of the X. X. X. We also
state that the catholic church of which
the X. of G. is the main political arm
in America, ONES in for caustic
criticism in the DAILY WORKER
just as often as the X. X. X.
THE X. Of c. is less hysterical than
it's competitor and because it con-
tains smaller percentage of morons
in its ranks than the bed sheet order,
in the public press. OF the two organ
izations, however, the X. of c. is more
dangerous, because II acts more in
telligently than its rival. Both are
equally willing to serve the capitalist
class. However, there are many men,
bers in both organizations whose
sympathies are with the workers
struggle, but they have not brains
enough to realize for what purpose
they are being used.
TT is true, as our correspondent
4 charges that there is a catholic
church machine inside the unions
and that in New York City many Of
the most prominent labor leaders are
catholics. But they are not reaction
airy simply because they are catholics.
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