The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-21

ana ONO railroad J.
Its general plan of united action
recognizes that the trade union is the
proper agent to organize employee
welfare activities and that the union
should have constructive as well as
protective duties and responsibilities
in the operation Of the railroad. Co
operation on this basis was agreed
to, to improve transportation, to ELI
inmate waste, to increase produc-
tivity, to better morale and to try
to develop greater regularity of en-
ployment. Emphasis mine.)
Please note again that all except
one item of agreement is for the
benefit of the B. and o. and that this
lone exception is stated in the we'll
known "pious wish" phraseology.
A CCoRDING to the railway de-
apartment officials report men
toned above there was an increase
of two weeks of employment in the
year period. This sterling feat
(Which is put forward by officialdom
as a gain only for the workers, is
actually gain for the company as
well since Marx long ago proved that
surplus value is created when work
ers are employed was accomplished
in an interesting manner j. e. by TAX
ing work from outside shops and
having it done in railway shops at
a lower cost.
The victory was secured therefore
by taking jobs from one section of
the working class and giving them to
another How this increased the total
amount of employment we leave the
brilliant secretary of the New York
chapter Of the League for Industrial
Democracy to show.
But this article grows long and our
space is limited. Let US see to what
conclusion Weisenberg comes after
the labored apology for the worker
employer cooperation theory Speak
ing in the last paragraph of her ar
ticle of the regrettable conflicts
which still mar the relations between
capital and labor, Weisenberg says
-. between the two fronts
there is peaceful valley where the
conflicting interests have learned TO
work together for their mutual good.
Small at present, it must grow more
extensive as increasing numbers of
capitalists realize the force and eff
ficiency behind cooperation and the
necessity for the shifting of power
so that there will no longer be the
fear and hatred between those who
dominate and those who are domin-
ated in our industrial life" EN-
phasis mine.)
ISN'T it all just too wonderful?
4 Not the least wonderful part of it
is that the League For Industrial De-
mocracy, the Intercollegiate Socialist
Society child sired by the war and
damned by Norman Thomas, appears
in Weisenberg's article as the plum
ed and prancing champion of the
whole Green Woll-Lewis worker-em-
ployer cooperation policy.
1t will be quite interesting to see
how the spokesman for the League
explain to a wondering working class
how support of open reaction is in
line with its program. AS is we'll
known the League for Industrial De-
mocracy is against revolutionary
changes and for evolutionary process
ses but it seems to have mistaken
degeneration for evolution in this
particular instance.
THE Weisenberg article, taken in
4 its entirety, is another link in the
chain of evidence proving that the
remnants of the pre-war revolutionary
movement have been picked up by
trade union officialdom and are be-
ing used to cast a faint shadow of
honesty over policies which are moth
ing more or less than the expression
of that offieialdom's complete sur
render to American Imperialism.
The New York chapter of the Lea
que For Industrial Democracy must
either repudiate the article in Cur
rent History by its secretary or ad-
nit that it is supporting without re-
servation the right wing in the labor
movement which is fighting the mill
tant membership and captivating to
the bosses.
'Newer Defenses of Capitalism in
the United States" now includes the
League For Industrial Democracy.