The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-16
Gary Passes---but Garyism Remains.

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Ebert Gary who died yesterday morning was for years
the powerful individual industrial life not
merely by virtue of his Craftsmanship of the colossal trust known
the United States Steel Corporation but because he and his
associates responsible for labor policy that became def
nitely associated with his and known Garyism.
The blight of Garysm fell heavily the American labor
after the world and reflex of the position
Of Of American capitalism Emerging from the world
the powerful and arrogant capitalism the whole
world American capitalism bazed trails in systematic
potation The labor policy of the industrial group around Gary
decisivey and vciousy After the great steel
strike which the reachery of the official Amer
Federation Labor bureaucracy would have been successful
establishing powerful union in the basic steel industry and
would nave given tremendous impetus to the organization OF the
other basic industries Gary headed the open-shop drive
against labor and developed the prsenday labor policy of the
dominant ndustrlasts That policy briefly stated that the
American ndusaists powerful invincbe that they
afford to dispense with the mdest sembance of labor
organization AS opposed to GarylSm is the official policy OF the
American labor carried out today
by the Green Wo Sgman McGrady outfit Compression is that
policy convincing industry that
vent the labor movement developing along militant lines
Compression says to the class "You need aid
against the possible development of radcasm the ranks
of labor"
Garysm replies Gompersisn: eve are powerful enough
TO smash labor without assistance We don't need la
Dor Ieutenantsw
Other ndustriaists particularly some of the railroads. have
attempted to labor organization with union
s But certain labor ackeys OF the type of William H. Johns
convinced them that the labor leaders could abandon
trades unonsm for unonsm through peaceful tran
sition"
policies known as Garyis are being naugurated in the
mining industry of the United States For time John L. Lewis
and the officials of the United Mine Workers waged
fight against this trend For instance the mine strike of 1922
waged for the Of convincing the mine that
they could get along without gang
the mine willing deal with Lewis he brazeny
betrayed the rank and file demands The performance
repeated by Lewis in the anthracite strike of 1926,
Against both Garysm Compression vanguard
of the working class the Communists mobilize
workers for determined fight against these bghts either
Of which spells defeat and betrayal for the working class
By reenessy unmaskng the criminal treachery of the la
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fight against the open shop the wehour day. the yellow
contract and other features of Garyism
Gary individual is dead but Garysm still
only be emnaed by the of the working
organized into powerful Industrial and supporting poll
tca party of labor that also appeals to the exploited and
pressed farmers In his life Gary of society,"
conscious member of the decreasing group powerful
magnates who dominate all of American industry The reptile
will spill tons of ink and waste millions of of paper
publish euogums this epoter oppressor work.
but will explode such illusions by emphasizing the fact
that all of the millions amaSsed by this industrial colossus
wrung of the broken and bleeding baked the
countless thousands who shaved the modern inferno before the
blast furnaces, in the rolling mills the tin mills and other
branches of the octopus known the steel corporation
Gary individual played such small role in the steel
corporation at the time of his death that there but the slight
est ucuaton in the stock of the steel corporation The idea
that such corporations by powerful individuals exploded
by the fact that the industry goes the the after
he died did the day before Not wheel slowed because
of his demise which proves that is the Garys
kind who the real industry the workers with
hand and brain who make possible all industry, all progress
The workers in the of the struggle will eventually
come to learn that they get along without Gary all the
other captains of industry much better than they
with them and the foremost fighters the ranks of
the working class the Communists only emphasize
mediate tasks but strive to direct the toward that
point where the working class the class that built all the indus
tries will and administer them under workers and farm
ers government