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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01

After mobiing his launching campaign gov
ernor the state of Pennsylvania Secretary Of Labor
Davis of his supporters who had been
ming sentiment for the candidacy the Coolidge
that he must decline with the greatest reluctance this
ngushed honor because he president has expressed wish that
l remain in the cabinet"
Then follows ten typewriter pages of sefpraie
ing what pupo to be the history of his e incidentally relating
what he might do he the nomination be
There is much this declaration of Davis than appears
the surface In the first place. the republican machine
yyana controlled by Andrew W. Mellon the outlaw secretary
the treasury would insist upon Davis running if he ghost
show win If Coolidge hot Davis could win he would
running But it precisely because the administration
would meet defeat that the secretary Of labor asked
the cabinet Certainly it is not because special qualification
cabinet member possessed by Davis He is total mental blank
Five minutes conversation with him reveals this
the MelonCoodge wants Davis remain the cabinet
stead Of running for Office is because his defeat Pennsylvania
would show the contempt which the Coolidge cabinet
Particularly heavy would be his defeat in the anthracite
he tried share credit with John Lewis for the settlement which
known the most shameful betrayal in the history
Of trade unonsm His latest efforts to break the Passac strike
by supporting the bosses demands will not enhance his prestige
For the safety Of the republican administration will
main in Washington doing his bit in the sikebreak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Big Business Organ Is
Research Institution"
BY CARL HAESSLER,
Federated Press.

Water p. Strong, the new publisher
of the Chicago Daily News, afternoon
organ of big business, speaking to the
students of the University of Chicago
told them that "the newspaper must
perform role akin to that of the
scientist, being in a sense a research
institution working with as much zeal
and honesty as the scientist but con
fronted constantly with headlines
(the rush of publication)."
When he was floating his $4,000, 900
bond issue after Victon Lawson's death
It was not scientists but the big adj
vertisers that supported him. The
Wall Street Journal Chicago bureau,
pointing out that by far the largest
item claimed as an asset by the reor-
ganized Daily News was good will and
circulation, both shifting and intan-
gfble factors, declared:
Estate street merchants, DESTROYS OF
protecting their large advertising in
vestments in the Daily News, are I'M
derstood to have lined up in force for
Mr.. Strong as publisher"
This research institute working with
as much zeal and honesty as the
scientist, as Strong handed 1t out to
the students, is therefore in the eyes
of the Wan Street Journal the crea-
ture OF the big department stores and
thru them to the Chicago financial and
corporate overlords.
Perhaps this is the basis Of the
great resemblance seen by Strong be-
tween the University OF Chicago
scientists and the manipulators of
Daily News policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
of the "New
tant Leadership Of the Id w. U. in New York City.

ers In order TO ward off Communist
domination and endorsed the policy
Of expelling the LETS as the only
way out.N) The unions thus be-
came more conservative"
Yes; the unity of the so-called So
cialists with the blacklist labor union
reactionaries was for the purpose of
expelling revolutionaries and resulted
in making the unions more conserVa-
tive! ~r
From that point on Mr.. Louis Sill
verstein proceeds to prove that the
revolutionaries, now that they are in
control of a section of the Interna-
tionalfLadies' Garment Workers I'm
ion, lave found that in practice their
theories and programs have to be
dumped He deals in the article, which
is called ''The Let's Right About
Face" with a concrete situation in
which he proves" his point. The
manner in which ne proves" his
point, /. e., by Misrepresentation, dis
tortion of logic, and simple as well as
complex lies, is not to be surprised at,
since he has undoubtedly had the
benefit of able tutelage under the edi-
torship of Mr.. James Oheal, who
graces the top of the New Leaders
masthead, and who is Communist
batter par excellence of the doddering
socialist party. 3 81
Mr.. Silverstein, acknowledging that
his information comes from the For
ward (and we might add so do his
wages), proceeds to s"expose" the
Communists. He does not show the
enormous improvement that has taken
place in the union since the revolu-
tionary administration took Office. He
ignores the abolition Of the favorite
instrument of his friends, gangsterism.
He is silent as a tomb concerning the
establishment of union democracy
which was automatically abolished by
his present paymasters, when they
held the reins of the union. He does
not even dare to sheer at the coffee
and cake committee" which has done
more for the strengthening of the,
union under left wing leadership than
all of the underworld thugs of Sigman,
Ninfo, Breslauer and their type put
together. He omits any mention of
the fact that the present leadership
does not have to resort to maneuver-
ing elections in order to get man
date" from the membership to raise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01

kauer and proposed and agreed to the
arbitration clause and an impartial
chairman in the dress makers agree
ment. But he conveniently forgets
few things in his anxiety to parade
his Mortified revolutionary innocence.
The dressmakers officials were drag
ged into court by the attempt of the,
manufacturers to secure an injunction
against the joint board calling a
strike. The union was not confronted
with the question of negotiating a new
agreement for the trade. 1t had UNI
der consideration only the carrying
out of an old agreement, which had
been formulated under the old admin
istration, and which was a typically
class collaboration document. It was
an inheritance from the old regime in
the union. 1t was a document to
which Communists and honest left
wingers are and will remain opposed.
1t was conceived by Forward unionists
and the left wing will seek to smash
and abolish such agreements at the
first opportunity.
But it must be admitted that the left
wing leadership, in proposing and
agreeing to the arbitration and i'm
partial chairman machinery in the old
agreement while they were in Judge
Proskauer's court, made a mistake.
They made an error which must be
corrected at the first opportunity, and
when the question of new agreement
faces the dressmakers the error will
be corrected. But the Communists
did not wait for. such contemplate
creatures as those of the Forward and
the New Leader to point out this
error. We were the first to point this
out and call attention to It. And Mr.
Silverstein knows this for he himself
quotes section of an editorial Of the
DAILY WORKER in which the men
ace of arbitration and a permanent i'm
partial chairman is very clearly
stated.
HOWEVER, upon what basis do
IL these gentlemen, who have fought
tooth and nail to maintain the vicious
policy of class collaboration in the
union, presume to attack the leader
ship and policies of the union?
Whence comes the right Of criticism
to these men who have for years done
their utmost to destroy the union, to
drive it more deeply into the mire of
class collaboration, who by their own
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Fascist Threat in PQss0ic Strike

flag that did not shield them from the
bestial assaults of the drunken police
who numerically beat them and hurl-
ed poison gas into ranks OF women
and children.
The legion outfit in Passaic may
think they can with impunity emulate
the fascist bandits Of Mussolini IN
Italy by assailing the labor movement
that is just being forged in the fire Of
the struggle, but they are doomed to
a rude awakening if they go farther
than bombastic threats. The strike
has been conducted in a peaceful and
legal manner; the violence has been
exclusively on the side Of the employ
ers, fact that is palpable to everyone
who has been on the scene of struggle
and the strikers will be within their
rights and will be defended by the rest
Of the enlightened labor movement in
any steps they may take to see that
the legion attends strictly to its own
business-whatever that business may
be.
AS for us Communists, We have
aided to the best of our ability in
this strike and will continue to do so.
We are part of the labor movement
and as Marx long ago said 1--WE have
no interests separate and apart from
the working class as whole" and we
make no apologies to the American
legion or any other gang for our activ-
ity in this or any other strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01

admission united with the "conserv-
atives" (polite socialist name for re-
actionaries) in order to expel from the
union those who fought and are fight
ing for progress? Where the young
left wing leadership has been guilty
of mistake which had it's origin in
the foul policies Of the former leader
ship, the latter has been guilty of
conscious and criminal acts against
the best interests of the union, crimes
which are being intensified tenfold by
their present repulsive policy.
Fortunately for the union, however,
the rank and file is conscious Of its
position and tasks. 1t is no longer to
be misled by the lying hypocrisy of
the Forward clique. They have learn
ed by concrete and bitter experiences
that there Is a difference between the
policies and leadership of the left
wing and that Of the socialist reaction
aries. 1t is not on the basis of SLAM
der, rumor and lies that they have
been won to the position of the left
wing. They have come to support It
because they are convinced of the
superiority of it's program: of the need
for the democratization of the union,
the substitution Of class struggle for
qass collaboration, for world trade
union unity, for labor party, for
amalgamation of all the needle trades
unions, for shop committees and the
other policies of the left wing.
The Forward and the socialist
clique foresee their total, elimination
from the field. The very success Of
the left wing is the answer to the
calumuy they spread. These success
ses have driven them to desperate tao
tics, and they who are about to be des-
troyed are first being made mad.
The membership of the union,
armed with its past experiences and
its new strength, is ready to support
its present leadership and program
and fight with all its energy against
the malicious attempts Of the dis
gruntled bureaucrats to knife the
union in the back. They are ready and
anxious to meet the wolves who will
succeed in accomplishing nothing but
the making of loud noise.
When the New Leader Joins the
pack, it is merely another shameful
page that it adds to the already too
black history of the socialist betrayal
of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
BY MAX SHACHTMAN

dues and inflict taxes for the purpose
of maintaining a staff of corrupt Of
flcials and gunner. He does not speak
Of the new spirit of enthusiasm and
self-sacrifice for the union and the
struggle which is sweeping the organi-
cation.
LIE sees only one incident, and even
IL that he must needs distort. The
Forward said, and Mr.. Silverstein re-
peats, that julius Portnoy, acting man
ager of the dress division of the New
York joint board, sought out an inter-
mediary who would approach Judge
Proskauer, Tammany tool, in order
that the latter should offer his SER
vices as mediator in the industry be-
tween the manufacturers and the
union. And Mr.. Silverstein draws
himself up to his full pigmy height
and points derisively to these revolu-
tionaries who fought so ardently
against arbitration and impartial
chairmen in the past, and who have, in
practice, been obliged to resort to
them. He even fays himself into a
frenzy of revolutionary indignation.
lit is
"a surrender of theories, yes, even
of principles, to a concrete situa-
ton"
This grieved individual then tells
his readers of how the Forward &C
cepted the challenge made by Port
noy that an impartial committee be
selected to investigate the formers
charges. This is absolutely untrue, as
our virtuous journalist well knows.
Three times, Portnoy wrote to the
Forward, naming two out of COM
mittee of five, together with Roger
N. Baldwin of the Civil Liberties
Union, who was to act as impartial
investigating chairman,) and every
time the Forward failed to accept
Portnoy's challenge to name two in
dividuals to represent it's charges on
the committee. Also, not surprising.
The Forward has already had it's
fingers burned when an investigation
committee found that absolutely no
grounds existed for the formers
charges of misuse of funds by the
Friends of Soviet Russia. (The Leader
might also remember: its fingers were
in the fire too)
Then Mr.. Silverstein seeks to create
the impression that the left wing lead
ers went into the court of Judge Pros
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01

gun to sing different tune and are
calling for the formation of the very
united front that was laughed to scorn
for years in the columns of the social
democratic press.
& But, besides these people anxious to
make little political capital out of
new phrase, we have social-demo-
crat militants fired by a sincere-desire
to find a way out of the blind alley
up which they are being marched. Ac-
tually, there has always been such a
desire, but not till now has it ac-
quired that general mass impetus,
that in turn marks new stage in the
development of the world labor move
ment, firstly; and bears witness, Sec
ondly, to anything but a happy state
of affairs in social-democracy.
ITO be concluded tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
BY A. LozovsKY.
ARTICLE ".

The course struck by certain Of the
trade union bureaucracies bringing
them into closer touch with the police
to throttle the revolutionary trade
union movement is only part Of the
strategic plan aiming to keep the
trade union NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the
workers want it or not-in the hands
of the socialdemocrats.
The same object is being aimed at
by the new orientation in relation to
the American trade union movement
to mobilize it's forces not only against
the Soviet trade unions, but particu-
larly against the growing opposition
inside the reformist trade unions. To
the same extent that dissatisfaction
grows inside the reformist unions and
the opposition takes root, are closer
ties welded between the leading lights
Of the movement and the bourgeois
state and its organs on the one hand,
and help sought from the American
Federation of Labor, on the other.
A. r. of L. Most Reaetionary.
OF all the labor organizations on the
face Of the earth the American Fed
feration of Labor is the most moderate.
Its bigwigs are mostly out and out re-
dictionaries who openly fraternize with
fascists, are bitter enemies Of social
ism; they regard Soviet Russia with
horror and are always beseeching
Ithe government of "these states"
never to recognize Soviet Russia
Hitherto always taking up a negative
attitude to the limited trade unionism
Of America, the European social-demo-
Gratis have at last discovered some
kindred trait in the U. S. A. movement
and are now prepared to go and learn
Of the American Federation Of Labor
leaders.
Masses Look to Russia--Leaders
TO United States.
This is giving rise to a most inter-
esting and peculiar state OF affairs in
many European countries, namely,
that in the same measure that the
masses are most evidently turning
towards the U. s. S. r., as can be
seen from the number of workers
delegations pouring into Russia, the
leaders are looking to America.
There is a cleavage inside every re-
formist organization owing TO the OPP
posite directions in which the working
masses and the Amsterdam bureau
cracy are moving. This change in ia
vor Of America and these attempts to
drag Uncle Sam into European affairs
to oppose the leftward drifting labor
movement Of Europe, in the first place
of Britain, is characteristic feature
of the past year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Use Brisbane to
Cut Wages in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY, March S0-The
Salt Lake chamber Of commerce re-
Gently announced Che receipt Of let.
ter from Arthur, Brisbane, accepting
an invitation of the chamber Of com
MERGE TO visit Salt Lake this summer
and write of the vast resources Of the
country surrounding Salt Lake. The
announcement contained the opinion
Of Beverley S. Clendenin, president
of the Salt Lake chamber, that Salt
Lake and Utah would be greatly
benefited" IL Brisbane came here and
wrote his thoughts concerning Utah.
Just how much of Brisbane's rawlings
in the Hearst newspapers and other
papers publishing his column Is re.
sponsible for the present labor situa-
ton in California is not hard to see.
A greater surplus of labor than is at
present available at low wages to Salt
Lake bosses would undoubtedly re-
suit from such campaign in Utah.
Altho exact figures are unavailable,
1t is admitted in reports Of surveys by
the department of labor that a sur
plus Of labor exists at present and It
is doubted whether employment on
ranches and other seasonal work will
liquidate this surplus. workmen who
would DO misled by Brisbane's glib
line" as to abundant employment and
other inducements are warned that
there is already surplus Of labor in
Salt Lake.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
BY II. M. wlcKs

The visit of group of members OF
the American legion, headed by one
of the peanut politicians of Passaic,
to the headquarters of the strikers had
as its impelilng motive an effort to
break the strike and smash the organ
ization of the workers by raising a
fake issue. The demand that Ameri-
can flags be displayed at halls was
an amateurish attempt at provocation:
The proper answer was given these
creatures by the strike leaders who
told the fascist agents that all money
available would be spent for relief of
the strikers who need food, clothing
and shelter.
II is preposterous to expect these
members of the legion, who were OBJ
viously playing the game Of the en-
ployers, to base their Americanism
upon a decent standard of living for
American workers. Their purpose is
to aid the apostles OF the scab shop in
industry beat down the wages and re-
duce the workers to a state Of help
lessness.
After every other means of terror
ism, such as savage police clubbing
and poisoning of the workers with gas
bombs, had failed, this aggregation
tried to raise the shabby issue of pa
triotism and cheap fiag-waving. This
performance again recalls the truism
that patriotism is the first delusion
Of a simpleton and the last refuge of a
scoundrel."
Yelled threats were made that in
case Communist doctrines were advo-
Gated from the speakers platforms at
the strike meetings that the legion
would take the law into its own hands
and stop the meetings. We have
heard such threats before and know
how to meet any efforts to put them
into practice. Albert Weisbord, the
organizer of the Passaic workers,
told the legionnaires that in case they
attacked meeting there would be
enuf service men present to throw
them out of the hall.
It is an old established and honored
tradition of Americans that people
have a right to defend their domiciles
when attacked by an enemy. That
also applies to halls that groups OF
citizens rent and pay for and the men
and women who have been on strike
in Passaic for nine weeks will know
how to defend themselves. They
should inform the legion in no ambigu-
GUS terms that II they contemplate an
attack upon their meetings they had
better bring along an adequate supply
Of ambulances and red cross nurses
because they will need them before
they are thru with their adventures.
Just because group OF towards and
stool pigeons hide their perhdlty be-
hind the flag that their very existence
befouls is no reason why they should
be respected. And as for respect for
flags, the workers OF Passaic have
learned how little the agents OF the
employers care about the American
flag. When ex-soldiers at the head of
the picket line carried the American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Left Tendencies In Social
Democracies,

Another symptom of the growing
disquiet and uncertainty prevalent
among the masses is TO be seen in the
growth of left tendencies in numerous
social-democratic parties and the idea
preached by the British Independent
Labor Party of uniting the Second and
Third Internationals. 1t is only a dem
agogic slogan for some of the leaders.
OF that there is not the slightest doubt.
But the fact that the l. L. p. leaders
are being forced to have recourse to
such demagogy is enuf to show the
serious change that has come about in
the masses.
For the Third International has al
ways been a DOGGY for every sort Of
humanitarian British socialist. If
these moderates are now dishing up a
plan like this (while refusing to fight
together with the British Communist
Party for the working classes most
elementary gains) it least Of all points
to a sterilization of capitalism. We're
we even in possession OF no other data
evidencing the instability of the So
called sterilization. the mere birth
and growth of the left spirit within
the social-democraey would be sufii-
cient to draw the conclusion that
thingare Tar from well with capital
ism. sen
Forced Into United Front.
How restless the masses are may be
seen from the circumstance of the
German social-democratic party and
the General Trade Union Federation
having agreed to form united front
with the Communist Party on the
question of confiscating the prop
erty Of the royal houses. Neither the
social-democratic party nor the G. T.
U. f. had the faintest idea say
couple Of weeks before Of supporting
this Communist Party slogan and had
openly opposed the Communists on
this question. The slogan met, how
ever, with such a warm response from
the masses that both the S. d. p. and
'AS " - W - WNAO AOAONA AAbO tohihb
up the matter with the Communist
Party and jointly advocating the de-
mand made in the slogan that for long
did not please either the social-demo-
Gratis or the trade union bureaucrats.
And what about the left, almost rev.
olutlonary speeches OF many promin-
ent leaders of the French and Aus
trian social-democracy? 1t is not so
long ago since there was complete
politico-ideological unanimity in the
ranks Of the social democracy, and
suddenly we have these speeches, in
themselves valuable symptoms, de-
stroyng the previous harmony.
social-Democracy Shaken.
What do these facts show? That
there is sullen ferment working in
the masses which is reflected on top
among the social-democratic leaders,
some Of whom, for fear Of losing in
fiuence among the masses, have be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Night Shirt Brigade
VIII March in Ohio
Especial to The Daily Worker,

NILES, Ohio, March 30-Clyde w.
Osborne, grand dragon OF the Ohio lku
klux,klan, has given his approval to a
nightshirt parade and demonstration
in this city on May 20. The last at
tempt OF the khan gang precipitated a
riot here and the calling out Of stats
troops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-01
Tendencies in World Trade Union Movement
Divergence Between Leaders and Masses.

The following is the fourth of a
series Of articles on present tend
encies in the international Trade
Union Movement by the president of
the Red international of Labor
Unions.