The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12
Labor Needs Officials
Who viii Oppose Fancy
Salaries for Kept Judges
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, William Green president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor joins With the Chicago Tribune in common
federal Judges are much underpaid Green has therefore
united with President John l. Lewis, of the United Mine
Workers of America in asking the chairman OF the house OF
representatives judiciary committee that these dollar court
Iackeys have their pay envelopes fattened.
The Chicago Tribune has rather difficult time under
standing why labor officials should ask for increased pay
judges used club against the workers when
ever they in conflict with their bosses It says:
paradoxieaI that the American Fed
the federal judges The
working and admire the United States
many Them
the Tribune is happy that these labor officials
in agreement with it, find Joy in this situation be-
the labor bureaucracy favOrng employers propO
sition The Tribune is in way endangering its open
shop position by favoring any class policy of labor
1t not difficult to understand this traitor position of
Green and Lewis avorng increased pay for the employers
judicial satraps is part of the workings OF their good
man. theory. They want good men, elected from among
the candidates of the democratic and republican parties
They the proverbaI good men" at captasns judicial
posts They think they can get them by raising the salaries
of the judges and attracting members Of the legal profess
sion who posses high character legal training fine accom-
pishments and freedom from prejudice"
Those the words of Green himself They show how
far the head Of the American Federation of Labor has
in accepting the phrases and the ideas of class collaboration
Green's vocabulary is identical with that OF the officials OF
the National Civic Federation, the National Security League,
the Chambers of Commerce and the National Manufactures
Association who also want judges gifted with freedom
from prejudice which always prejudice in favor of
the workers. The judge who rules for the capitalist class
never declared preIudiced.
The part of the capitalist state Lawyers rise
in their profession they faithfully carry out the demands
of private property opposed to human rights The law
yer who is in the least dsoyal to capitalism finds him
self in the poor house compelled to honest living
thru useful work. The capitalist law based property
rights has grown up with the development of the capitalist
social order justice of the peace municipal judge
gnoranty intentionally goes against precedent he is
quickly corrected by the higher courts presided by
specialists in the enforcement of "the law The
favor the workers. because the rights of the workers
grow of human rights which have place in capitalist
Jurisprudence. The employers legal machinery must be
scrapped along with the abolition Of the capitalist
make room for Iabors power and labors laws.
Socialists elected judges in Milwaukee County,
Wis. They heraded good men," They had little
difficulty in holding their jobs, however, and of them
mpeached because they accepted the viewpoint that the
courts must protect property rights since I'VE still living
supporters of Green and Lewis in the trade unions allies
ca posts they had secured with workers votes in the inter-
ests of the working class.
William Howard Taft, "BlI the Fat" receives $4,000
year. chief justice of the United States Supreme Court
His associates get $4500 years. judges of the circuit
receive $500 year. and judges of the district $500
year. Labor officials interested in the welfare of the work.
ing class would fight to have those fat salaries reduced by
showing the meager wages that workers receive turnout all
American industry.
Labor have officials interested the wages of the
workers. not officials who worry about the size of the
of gold that capitalism throws its faithful poodes paad
ing as interpreters of the law.