The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-23


AS secretary OF labor during the war. Wilson aiding
tn mobzng labor for class collaboration in behalf Of
democracy" alias capitalist imperialism. His heart
that aehed for peace" between bosses and workers
ached nary ache for International peace, He Gre
ated whole series of bureaus and sections Of the
department to that labor helped capital win the war;
secretary of labor Wilson, in charge of the Immi-
grafton Bureau supervised the deportations delir-
ium' and Red raids" against the foregn-born He
aided in establishing legislation that would let in the
docle wage slave and shut out the "agitators"
An Information and Education Service" created
in the department during the war; and Babson was ap-
appointed upon ito promote sound sentiment and to
provide appropriate machinery and policies in indivd-
ual plants"
WHAT sound sentinents7"
W Babson tells how Wilson judged the propaganda for
wartime collaboration. He says that whenever posi-
BILE he Babson took publicity copy to Wilson criti
CHE. What happened is told in the following words:
"The secretary insisted that we should use the word
we instead of the word YOU saying You should
produce more but We should produce more"
when l wrote the words You should stick to your
Job he would correct 1t and say We stick to
jobs"
THUS it that We won the war!
1 Thus created some 1900 new milonaires
about 100000 graves times that number of
war-mamed workers, and labor was let in the beau
ties Of "defation" and readiustment in the shape Of
open shop drives and wage cutting campaigns that have
nearly wrecked the union organizations This is the
reward of industrial peace" or class peace" during
the
The Department Of Labor and Wilson as its secretary
hoped to make this sort of thing permanent. Babson
tells Of Wilson's ambitions for Wage Commission
composed of equal number of representatives of en-
poyers, employees and the government" How this
would defeat any power of the unions is admitted in
the following words:
'TThe chief purpose Of such board would be to
have the rate Of wage nearly as possible that
which would be the NATURAL WAGE if left to
the law of supply and demand"
So this is the final fruit of the labor of JUST MAN?
Mo- There is a little more.
A THOUGH William B. Wilson came up from the
"A ranks of the workers and once championed the
principle of unionism, he has far recovered that
while in Pennsylvania he Is asking union labor to sup
port him in his campaign to be seated in the United
States senate in Virginia he is operating coal mine
open shop mine owneri
A NEW YORK news item on July IT, 1926 has the
"A following to say:
William B. Wilson former secretary of labor. who
is playing for labor support to his candidacy for
the democratic ticket in Pennsylvania this
fall has become coal operator in nonunion Virginia.
'"The periodical Coal Age announces that William B.
Wilson and Daniel Nilsson of Airport Pa have leased
from the Bngey coal tract at Robins Midlothian,
in Chesterfield county Virginia. Production is to start
at 300 tons month
Chesterfield county coal lands depend for their mar
ket largely on preferential Welght rate treatment Dy
the Interstate Commerce Commission. 1t is com
pletely nonunion field"
TNTIS ends our account of William B. Wilson evangel
of Industrial peace, nonunion coal operstor-and
Q JUST MAN, who insists that the robber and the
robbed. the exploited and the exploiter have "com-
mon interest"-to elect him TO the U. S. senate from
the state of Pennsylvania. t. ,a.S
Let the coal miners of-Pennsylvania beware any
'ustce" that they do get and hold, by their
organized force Let them know that II they want
any however lust" 70 represent their interests
they must build their forces in politics. in La
Dor Party just they must protect their interests by
their organization Of labor in powerful union,
opposed to the interests Of the employing class.