The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-06
O-OPERATION OF
WORKER And BOSS
GREEN'S APPEAL
Attack on LETS Basis
of M9rrisOn's Talk

human mind and genius with the d.
wine plan of the Creator, William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, yesterday issued
/ his Labor Day message to the Amer
lean workers by radio from station
WEAF.
After telling of his appreciation to
the National Broadcasting Company
for the privilege Of using their ma
tional hook-up, Green informed his
invisible audience that "labor's devo-
ton to humans 4ideals springs from
the desire of the individual worker to
enlarge his opportunities for life and
living and to satisfy human longings
for contentment and happiness"
Ends Class Distinction.
Furthers ''The change from autoc-
racy to democracy, in the administra-
ton Of the affairs of the govern
ments, served to diminish the lines
of class distinction and to place the
people upon common political basis.
With political emancipation has come
greater freedom and independence,
more intimate association and famil-
iarity with the ideals and principles
of government, personal contact
through which understanding has
/ been promoted and the cali of mod
ernized and expanding civilization for
service of a diversified character"
He thought labor should indeed be
paid for it's Service of a diversified
character" but deprecated any but
the mildest methods for getting the
pay.
Green assured his listeners that
even the idle rich are workers, be-
cause, under the modern urge every
person is called upon to work and to
labor. 1t is almost impossible for any
individual to shirk or slacken. The
social order calls for labor with the
mind, with the hand and the body.
All service, whether professional,
trained, skilled or unskilled, is CLASH
fled as labor. Our own country is
made up of efficient workers.
For Glass Peace
Towards the end of his speech
Green advocated class collaboration.
He said: "There must be true basis
for an enduring relationship between
employers and employees which, if es-
tablished will tend to promote their
mutual welfare and the public inter-
est. Mutuality, understanding and
tkeir ranks intact and preventing a
are the foundation stones upon which
such relationship must rest. When
such foundation is securely laid men
and management may begin to erect
thereon the structure of an enduringy
industrial peace.
collective bargaining and wage
agreements will serve to stabilize in
dustry and the development of the
principle of cooperation and volun-
tary arbitration into actual practice
tend to reduce to a minimum the pos
sibilities of industrial conflict"
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Morrison Speaks Down South.
/ CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. s.
Addressing trade unionists in War
ner Park this afternoon Frank Nor
rison, secretary of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor claimed that the
present policy Of the A. F. Of l.. is
militant one.
Despite the most ruthless cam
paign ever inaugurated by our enc
miles," he continued, Immediately
following the world war, to weaken
and destroy the trade union move
ment, the organized forces of labor
stemmed the tide of the fierce on
slaught of these enemies, holding
their ranks intact and preventing a
wholesale reduction in wages and a
reversion to long hours.
Against Progressive Action.
/ Morrison seems to be worried by
the tendency towards a more pro-
gressive position taken by many
workers. In order to confuse the
issue he Jumped the unions" of fas-
cist Italy with the trade unions of the
Soviet Union, claiming that they are
both "left movements"
"This movement" he argued" is
not confined to our own country-it
is found in England, where the con-
sentative government is attempting
to smash the trade union movement.
1t is found in Russia, where a group
Of revolutionists rule. 1t is found in
Italy, where workers must join gov
ernment-controlled unions, where
wages are set by law and where free
speech and assemblage is denied. 1t
is found in Poland and Hungary and
Roumania, where dictators rule. The
same policy is apparent in the Latin
American countries below the Rio
Grande."
In this country, according to Nor
rison's method Of reasoning, the
movement towards the left is shown