The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-15
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the heat of the day in the wide open
spaces. And since Coolidge appears
to be groomed for the seat once graced
by Ebert II. Gary, as head of the
United States Steel Corporation, the
strikebreaking president has no cause
for cavail. The arrangement should
prove satisfactory all round
in Ireland the peasants insisted that
their priests should be we'll fleshed
and be able to include meat in their
diet while the peasants might have to
be content with boiled potatoes and in
lieu of a more substantial condiment
be forced to resort to the subterfuge
OF pointing their potatoes at a salt
herring hanging from the rafter. This
meal was known as, potatoes and
point" The more precocious Ameri-
can workers and farmers may not be
so considerate about the comfort of
their evangelists and bush baptists.
but they do insist that their ex-presi-
dents fare well. So, while the farm
ers are scratching their brain arma-
ment in despair over their economic
plight and the workers are in con-
slant dread lest the wolf of want
should come snarling to their doors,
they find satisfaction in the knowl-
edge that the capitalist tool they
elected to suppress them in the in
terests of capitalism, is economically
secure for the rest of his life.
WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON was
proposed as republican candidate
for president of the United States in
a resolution at the convention of the
Illinois Federation of Labor now in
session at East St. Louis, Illinois.
There is little likelihood that the reso-
luton will be passed unless Thompson
has been exceedingly generous with
his money since his return to city
hall. That delegate should have
the nerve to propose such a resolution
at this convention gives us a good
idea of the retrogressive development
in the Illinois labor movement in the
past six years. .
WHILE on the subject of reaction
and corruption it is we'll to call
attention to the sorry mess uncovered
in the New Jersey State Federation
of Labor, when a former treasurer
of that body testified that the fed
GRAFTON has been subsidized by open
shop employers for several years. The
grating of the takers was exposed
when a suspicion began to grow that
the treasurer was not splitting the
swag equitably with his partners. In
view of the sabotage of the Passaic
strike by this gang and the almost
unanimous hostility towards that
struggle by the heads of the A. F. of
l.. it would not be a great strain on
human credulity to assume that an
investigation of the relations between
labor takers and employers in every
state in the union would reveal a
condition as bad or worse as the one
that blew the lid off the New Jer-
sey trade union manhole. In view of
this revelation in New Jersey, it is
not surprising that the reactionaries
should fight tooth and nail against
the efforts Of the progressive ele-
ments in the trade unions to organ
ize the workers. When the open
shoppers think it worth while to pay
one faker 100000 for preventing the
organization of the workers it can
be seen that red-baiting is remun-
erative profession. Let us hope the
explosion in New Jersey will be fol-
lowed by similar explosions wherever
the poison of corruption has infected
the trade union movement.