The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-14
By WILLIAM F. dunno.

hand in hand with the coal and iron
police and the state constabulary-
find fertile field for their disrup-
tive work.
They can cover their union-smash-
ing activities by the cloak of mon
partisan political action" The con-
nection of the labor movement with
the political parties of it's enemies
makes possible all kinds of sinister
maneuvers in the upper circles of the
labor movement, maneuvers which
may be suspected by the rank and file
but for which ready excuse can be
found and given.
THE total effect of this is to create
in the whole movement a suspicion
and distrust from which the bosses
alone profit.
The reputation Of all connection
with the capitalist parties and the
support of the Pennsylvania Labor
Party by all sections of the labor
movement and the workers generally
would set in motion gale of resent
ment against the permeation of the
unions by steel and coal company in
fluence which would be the signal
for the cleaning the Pennsylvania la
Dor movement needs so badly
ME have no doubt that, it is the
" probability of such development
which makes the executive council of
the A. F. of L. tread so carefully in
situation which, with the most i'm
portant union in both the Pennsyl-
vania and the American labor move
ment, the U. M. w. A., under attack
by the armed forces of the state, calls
for merciless denunciation of the OPP
posing class forces and the most
energetic preparation for class politi-
cal action.
10Th in the anthracite and bitumin-
- Gus coal regions of Pennsylvania,
labor officials with the exception of
President Maurer of the State Fede-
ration of Labor, who is himself slated
| for defeat by the reactionaries) have
/ been devoting practically all their at
tention to making war on the Com
munist and left wing members of the
| labor unions instead of uniting all
forces for struggle against steel and
coal barons and their state machin-
cry.
One and all, with the exception no.
| ted, land Maurer has not always been
clear and definite in his position) la
Dor officialdom in Pennsylvania,
backed by the A. F. of L. executive
council, has opposed formation and
support of a labor party.
HINDER these conditions, even with
the open suppression practiced by
the capitalists and their state macinin-
cry, the whole struggle has degenera-
ted into a servile acceptance of the
leadership in politics of the same
enemies the workers are forced to
fight in industry.
The Pennsylvania labor movement,
(and in this it is no exception to the
Illinois, New York, Ohio and Michi-
gan labor movements is therefore
stepped in corruption and almost i'm
potent in the face of the efforts of
the bosses to exterminate it.
THREE indictments apiece brought
against % miners for resisting
JIG ulopSIodI VI a pSdSS1uI SdCCO-
Vanzetti protest meeting by state
cossacks at Cheswick, Pennsylvania,
some weeks ago, has as yet brought
no support from the official labor
movement.
The wholesale attempt to destroy
the United Mine Workers in western
Pennsylvania brings only mild pro-
test and vague proposals for "re-
warding friends and Furnishing enc
mics" from labor officialdom
AT all costs there must be started in
"A Pennsylvania militant campaign
for the revival of the labor party and
energetic support of it by all sections
of the workingclass-org and
unorganized.
A full ticket should be placed in the
field for the 1928 elections and the
work of organization and agitation
begun at once.
Under the conditions which exist
those labor officials who oppose the
building of labor party as labor's
answer to the tyrannies of Pennsyl-
vania capitalism range themselves
automatically on the side of the ene-
mics of the labor movement.