The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-25
FAT BOY s. SHOW
'LABOR'S REV. Ard
IN KAN S AS CITY
Film Spreads Class Col
laboration Bunk

American Federation Of Labor has in
augurated a stupendous program for
the establishment Of the rights OF or
ganized labor here in Kansas City.
This work is being directed by a
number of the fat boys" who are
assisted by several Of the lesser lights
who aspire to fairness.
The trick is to be turned by a
motion picture film called "Labor's
Reward" This nauseating connection
was administered to about rs people
here last night at the Labor Temple.
Labor "orsanizer" Speaks.
A suave. pot-bellied gent was the
speaker This worker" wore huge
gold embellished Elk's tooth, an or
ganization with about as much friend
ship for organized labor as bulldogs
have for cats.
! After addressing the members of the
audience as "fellow-workers," this
bird read telegram from President
William Green in which Green ex-
pressed his heartfelt regret because
he was too busy to be here to cele-
brate this momentous occasion.
The speaker assured the rs people
assembled that everywhere the labor
ing masses were swarming in tens of
thousands to view this experimenting
film.
The picture was then shown. It de-
picts a story of two workers, Mary
and Tom. Mary is employed in a non
union shop, while Tom works in a un-
ion plant Mary's father has also been
working in a non-union shop in which
he was crippled and now is unable to
work at ALL So it falls to the lot OF
Mary to support him and also young
er sister.
Boosting the Label.
Tom is in love with Mary and in
order to make his stand in" stronger
he decides to buy a new hat. He is
shown leaving the hat store after hav-
ing made the purchase. AS he steps
out on the sidewalk he is met by one
of the labor leaders of his union
4 Where did you get that hat?" sar-
castically questions the leader as he
looks him over. Tom does not reply
so the leader snatches the hat from
his head and shows him that it does
not bear the union label. Tom very
despondently walks away.
That evening Tom calls upon Mary
only to learn that she had collapsed,
at her work and was compelled to
come home. She was telling Tom
about it when one of her shop mates
came in and informed her that the
girls had gone on strike at the shop.
This in some way seemediS. s1ziNS
Tom of his hat so he quietly slipped
out and exchanged it for one with a
union label.
All-Knowing Green.
The next day Green, who had evil
IDENTIFY heard that Tom had exchanged
his hat made him an organizer for the
American Federation of Labor That
evening Tom is called upon to make
speech to Mary's striking shop
mates.
Upon hearing of this the employers
Immediately get out an injunction,
which forbids the strikers from inter
fering in any way with the work of
the shop. The police are shown lead
ing the pickets off duty. All seems to
be lost.
Again our hero thinks of the hat
This gives him a brilliant idea. The
next day at the lunch hour he is shown
making a dramatic speech TO six OF
his shop mates He relates his expert
ence with the hat and admonishes
them to buy great quantities Of goods
bearing the union label
The next scene shows the six boys
coming out Of a store carrying great
| bundles of union-made garments.
Where'd They Get the Money!
Well, that settles it, The subtitle
announces that the strike was won.
And the next scene. which takes place
week later, shows Tom and Mary in
a new home happily married Mary's
crippled father and her little sister
seem to have been lost in the shuttle.
The little detail, as to how striking
workers without money can buy goods
of any kind is left to the imagination.
OF course the purpose of the whole
thing is to show the futility of work
ers striking for better living condi-
tions but what II really does show is
the depths Of degeneracy to which the
oficialdom Of American labor has
fallen.