The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-11

like him dieSNthe labor movement sus-
tains a great iNs.
He was only 80 years old. Still
young and energetic and with fu-
ture of struggle in the cause of labor
which would have placed him among
the best and most valuable leaders in
the international working class move
ment. But fate and the damnable
capitalist system willed differently.
And Joseph Marley is no more.
On August 26, 1926, the life Of Jo-
seph Manley came to an end. His
death resulted from internal injuries
sustained in a fail from a building in
Brooklyn, New York, on August "a,
upon which he was employed as an
iron worker.
IRON what l know of Joseph Man
4 ley, that was not the way he would
have liked to die. Joe was a born
proletarian revolutionist. He had it in
his blood to hate capitalism and CAPT
talist oppression. His whole makeup
was that of challenge, resistance and
struggle. And nothing would have
suited Joe better than to lay down
his life-when the time came-in the
working class struggle for power and
for a new order of society.
Joseph MANLEY was born on July
y IS, 1887, in Dublin, Ireland. His
father was a physician and an ex-
plOrer, but most of his mothers family
u were workers employed in the making
of casks, barrels and tubs. That is
probably the reason why ten-year-old
Joe was made a cooper's apprentice
when the time came around for him
to begin making a living. At about
the same time Joe became a member
of his trade union.
He emigrated to Canada in 1907
and soon afterwards came TO the
United States. Here he joined the
Western Federation of Miners. Dur
ing I907-S-9 he worked in Butte and
in Cobalt. In 1910 he became bridge
man and Joined the Bridge and Struc-
-tural Iron Workers Union, of which
Iekeowas member dc years. until his
death.
The political and intellectual devel-
opment of Joseph Manley is interest
ing and Instructive in many respects.
The road of Manley was travelled by
many American workers. Some of
them, along with Manley. have gone
the whole length and have come to be
Communists and active members of
the Workers (Communist) Party
Others have stopped in the middle Of
the road and are still wavering be-
tween the deadening conservatism of
Gompers and the inyigorating, promis-
ing. creativeness of Communism. Still
others have turned back on their mill
tant past and have become satisfied
with merely negotiating and slowly
dying away either IN the folds of
Gomperism or in the morass of i'm
potent futility of anarchism, syndical-
ism, etc.
Manley started out ON the field of
class struggle as trade unionist. Ten
years of age he became a cooper's ap-
prentice in Dublin, Ireland, and joined
the union. A European worker of his
type might have started out as a so
cialist, but for a militant working class
youngster in Great Britain Cor in the
United States, for that matter)
quarter of century ago the natural
and possible thing was to enter the
class struggle thru the trade union.
Why? Because there, unlike many
countries on the European continent,
it was not socialism but trade union
ism that stood at the cradle of the
class struggle.
But when Manley came to Canada
in 1907 he was already mature for
fuller understanding OF and participa-
ton in the class struggle. He joined
the socialist party OF Canada and
later. when he came to the United
States, the socialist party of America.
This was no accident. During the
daoodo (too1 fao7N - ..~-t- .t-,.n-t.