The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
What About 1t, Mr.. Green?

What About 1t, Mr.. Green?
The attack by the executive Federation
upon the underpad textile workers PassqC
many quarters The statement the
considered and rightly invitation to the
that matter what
they their private detective agencies invent
for upon the struggling and children of Pas
sa council of the A F. of L. will look remain
silent openly approve,
We have time time that certain
of the middle open in their hostility to big
capital represented the textile industry for instance than
agents imperialism in official positions in the ranks of or
ganized labor
The Maoauee Journal editoray this opinion of
it's July the title What About It. Mr.
strike textile barons the tariff
and sundry other questions The Journal
Wl1iam Green president of Federation of
bor condemns the leadership Of the fertile strikers at Pdssdc
months under the direction Of the Omitted Front Commit
protesting against that
disgrace before manufacturers imposed 10
per manufacturers raised cry that they
deal 0ith the strike organisation because the
Communistic And the erecutiUe council of the
federation gUes them aid By declaring that because
the leaders of the United Front Committee identified NTH
Commsc in the United States at
conclude that they interested advancing the
of Communism"
1t mag be-and the federation officials ought
bottle COMMUNISTS But the rank
and file Of the strikers are interested only getting decent aoages
desperation they hare turned to leadership that is
10ith Communism is that surprising? About gear
ago Mr. himself teDt manufacturers of
He said that dhO government had them
special protection against foreign competition the theory
they needed pay decent age other industry IN
country had made such record for soshng oages And
threatened that the American Federation could at
the tertiIe tariff in the nert congress-
The nert congress has and gone. Where eoos Mr.
Green? Delegations of strikers ministers and leading citizens
from tect pleaded ,oith congress to Investigate the
deporabEe conditions in the mills Where Mr. Green then"
this tariff ohch mill labor
consumers alike egpoed? An economist retained by the
strikers has accumulated figures the labor cost in
Then ShOtC, that the
privileges granted manufacturers by government
tely absorbed By the mill in ndemsibe prices and
profits"
,oages fathers mothers alternate
night ue Cb conditions bad that babies
at the NTH Mr. Green forgetting in
august his organisation
Gny that should dny aUGiE
leadership? That is dangerous leadership
only for labor leaders ,oho understand this
gire right kind of help And if they do ho
blamed these ertle aookers 90 Gsay than
labor looks leadership t0ho denounce conditions
Green did, bit fail to do anything about it? Are
beUe that the leaders Of American labor haze fallen cictms
to the feshpots, toog
As to the statement of The Journal relative to the unsount
dangerous leadership the strike The strikers hn
the leadership nound and dangerous they would
six months strike which organization
ary and miancy has been exeed in American Labor
history
organized believe that thu
strike leadership unsound dangerous" they
the strike with whoeheared generosity
also makes bright spot in the not too brilliant history of
lied labor of the United States.
strike leadership is Dangerous" willing ad
nit 1t dangerous to the textile barons and to their agents
the labor movement.
why it has by high priests
American labor the mill and the Passac chambe
Of But il exactly this kind Of dangerous" leader
ship that the American working class needst is this kind
dangerous leadership that will organize the millions morgan
workers in basic industries while the
Wall Streets Washington lobbyists the srug
giles Of undepad workers and perfect plans for
cooperation while the bosses yell approvingly.
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