The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
KELLOGG SENDS THREATENING NOTE TO CHINA
CURRENT EVENTS
By t. J. o'FLAHERTY

a RECENT issue of Advance, Off
lAcial organ of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, contained a
lengthy editorial on the present stu
alton in the needle trades unions and
particularly on the move to exclude all
known Communists from those unions
and from the trade unions in general.
The editorial commented on the glee
with which the ousting of the radi-
Gals is hailed by the socialists and
observed that if this policy is car
ried out, the. socialists will also come
in for a share of the medicine in
tended solely for Communist discom-
future.
This little bit Of criticism of the
expulsion policy championed by the
socialists and the Tammany Hall
labor leaders did not escape the eagle
eye of the editor of The New Leader.
Evidently amazed that such heresy
should see the light of day in the
official organ of Abraham Becker
mans smuggling squad, Mr.. Oneal has
tened to assure the intellectual editor
of Advance that socialists did not en-
terrain the idea that Communists as
such should be excluded from the
unions. Oh, no! Only Communists
whose presence is injurious to the
unions.
Such generosity on the part of Mr.,
Oneal is about as substantial as the
|. o. u. of a confidence man. Mr.
Oneal has nothing to give and if he
had, he would not give it. The type
of person who would believe the word
Of Frank B. Kellogg or give serious
consideration to an official announce
ment from the British foreign office
might assume that editor Oneal was
not talking thru Abe Cahan's hat. But
we can see the Ethiopian's toe stick
ing out from beneath the underbrush,
If we can be introduced to a labor
faker who thinks there is in existence
an animated Communist to which the
term good" can be applied we will
s.4.w you i labor faker who does not
know enough to come in out of the
rain, yea, a labor faker who holds
his job, either because there is nc
money in his treasury or because Will
liam Green is not aware of his pres
ence in the labor movement.
The New Leader devotes approx
mately so per cent of its weekly space
to attacking the Communists. The
capitalist system is almost forgotten
Perhaps the socialists will return to
their old hat after the Communists
are destroyed. The official organs
of the open shop movement brazenly
declare that they are supporting the
anti Communist leaders, but when the
battle ends in a Communist defeat
(this is the hope, but the bible said
that "hope deferred maketh the heart
sick), the open shoppers will return
to their war on trade unionism. In
our opinion the socialists are thru
fighting capitalism.
In his Timely Topics" column,
Doctor Norman Thomas breaches oc-
casionally against the foes of the
horny-handed sons of toll, with as
much or as little fervor as he for
merly preached against the devil and
his bad angels. Thomas is one OF
the few living specimens in the So
ciaIist party who is willing to iden-
tify himself with any struggle where
wicked Communist is suspected Of
being engaged in the nefarious bust
ness of agitating the minds of the
workers against the employing class
Even Doc. Thomas is not what HI
used to be in this respect. 1t is hare
to know which side he is OH at times
He sometimes slaps his reactionary
bed-mates on the wrist, then turns
around and plants a well-directed kicl
on the Communist midriff. A use
full come-on for the socialistsl Thu
League for Industrial Democracy il
enc of the socialist decoys used tt
entice the non-socialist flies into the
socialist party web. The New Leader
occasionally publishes a list of or
CARNATIONS influenced by the Work
ers (Communist) Party. 1t charges
the party with deception because o.
this policy of building auxiliary or
CARNATIONS that provide a recruiting
ground for the party and help Il
bring more workers into radical &C
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