The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-09
By Morris Pass
BY WILLIAM F. DUNE.

Members OF the First American
Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet
Union are to be driven from the labor
movement unless they repudiate the
stand they have taken for recognition
and retract the friendly estimate con-
tanned in their report of the achieve
ments on the economic and cultural
field of the Soviet Union.
This much is to be read between
the lines Of Labor Plans and Prob
lems," the regular piece written by
John j. Leary, Jr., for the New York
Sunday World. This gentleman, on
extremely close and friendly terms
with the department of justice, by one
of those arrangements so common In
a labor movement whose officialdom
maintains the most intimate relations
with imperialist government, is
recognized as the semi-official spokes-
man of the executive council of the
american Federation of Labor
Chosen For Dirty Work.
Whenever there is a dirty piece of
work to be done, for which the CO.
operation of the capitalist press is
needed, Leary usually is selected for
the job by Messrs. Vol, Lewis and
Green. Sometimes, when the task is
of such an unusually obscene nature
that even this trio shrink from it,
(this occurs rarely, however) Leary
is allowed a free hand and labor Off
cialdom does not appear to sponsor
it in any way.
Takes Crack at Coyle.
In his article for Sunday, Oct. 25,
Leary first remarks that Albert Coyle
has "been deposed as editor of the
Locomotive Engineers Journal"
"The fact is" says Leary, that he
was deposed because of his pro-
Russian activities, the new manage
ment of the brotherhood having de-
cided last June that FIGHTING THE
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF La
Dor ON RUSSIA WAS NO PART
OF IT'S JOB"
The Real Story.
Behind the above lines is hidden the
story of a long campaign waged by
A. F. of L. officialdom to 'get" Coyle.
Whatever the official reasons for his
discharge may have been, the fact re-
mains that the A. F. of L. executive
council brought the greatest possible
pressure to bear upon the Locomotive
Engineers executive to force his dis
charge and thereby prevent the En-
gineers Journal from continuing the
friendly approach to the Soviet Union
it maintained under his editorship.
Some Handicaps.
1t cannot, Of course, be denied that
the fact that the Brotherhood had
been operating non-union mines in
West Virginia under the corrupt anti
labor Warren Stone regime, gave
Lewis of the United Mine Workers a
powerful argument against the B. Of
L. E. and that Coyle, as editor of it's
official organ suffered from this. Our
criticisms Of this policy of the B. L..
of Z. were much more fundamental
than those made by Lewis.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that
the principal reason for Coyle's dis
charge was the demand made for it by
the A. F. of L. executive council grow
ing out Of his opposition to their anti
Soviet Union policy, his organization
of the Trade Union Delegation and
his advocacy Of recognition.
Made Most of Opportunity
Even though the B. of l.. e. is not
affiliated with the A. F. Of L., it has
to maintain certain relations with it.
Further, the collapse of its trade
union capitalism schemes undoubtedly
created difficulties for its Cleveland
bank which the open hostility of the
A. F. Of J.. executive council probably
could have made much more serious.
The discharge of Coyle was com
paratively easy to secure under these
circumstances and A. F. of L. official
dom evidently made the most of it..
Jim Maurer Next.
Having "got" Coyle, A. F. of L. Of
ficialdom, thru Leary and the New
York World, hints broadly that jim
hdulel, pieSlucHI u Jne ISinSyl-
vania State Federation of Labor. and
chairman of the First Trade Union
Delegation, is the next on the list.
Leary says:
Meantime there is some doubt as
to what the future may hold for
James ii. Maurer. To a very
great extent Maurer is dependent for