The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-01

forgotten. Miners conventions
then were comparatively peaceful
affairs.
No one can be blind to the con
ditions existing today. Macdonald
has been expelled from the miners
union in Illinois because he fought
the officialdom, both the state
machine recently headed By Frank
Harrington and the international
regime OF John l.. Lewis, who ar
rogantly announces that Alex
Howat is mo longer a member of
the union" But the vicious CAPT
talist attack, developed within tho
union. by Lewis and his lieutenants
against the real spokesman of ia
Dor, is also directed against those
who raise even an opposition pro-
gram, like John Brophy, William
Stevenson and William Brennan.
Let the renegade liberals and social
lists, who now write for the New
York Times, try to point out in
this employers sheet, if they can,
where the blur is to be found in
Indianapolis today. Incidentally,
they might take off the smoked
glasses they wear to shut out the
glare of the class struggle, as it
RACES today even within the labor
unions themselves.
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Capitalism knows that the class
lines are clearer. Il fears the milf
tant program of the opposition in
the miners union. 1t buys off the
Farringtons with soft, high-priced
jobs. 1t coddles those ambitious
like John Lewis, with promises OF
high political places, like secretary
of labor, or even the vice-presi-
dency of the nation. This only
shows that the labor lackeys OF
capitalism, like Lewis and Earring
ton, stand more clearly revealed
than ever on the side of the ex-
ploiters. This does not blur, it
clarifies the class struggle. In the
eyes Of the labor lieutenants of
capitalism, it is worse crime to-
day to champion the cause of the
Labor Party in the trade unions,
in this post war period, than it was
to urge the cause OF the Socialist
Party in the trade unions before
the war. This is true today-the
Labor Party signifies concrete
effort to build a class party OF la
Dor. In the pre-war days multi
tudes joined the socialist party who
not only were passive in the class
struggle, but actually denied. like
Charles Edward Russell, who near
" became the party's candidate for
president in 1916, that there are
classes struggling against. each
other within capitalist society.
Company unions" do not blur
the class issue. Look at Passaic,
best example of how the employers
merely invoke this subterfugc to
head off real unionism. Of course,
if writer's like Clark, Lauck, Laid
Ter, Thomas and the rest want to
put on binders and merely look at
the class collaboration apparent in
every union-management co-opera-
ton scheme, without taking into
consideration the developing class
resentment OF workers against such
nefarious schemes, then it is easy
to discover a blur in the class re-
lationship. Yet such are merely
gazing at the capitalist class, in
GLIDING its lackeys, whether Green,
Vol, Walling, Hillman or Sigman,
and all they see is the capitalist
class, of which they are themselves
a. part. They close their eyes en-
tirely to the presence of class con-
cious elements among the workers
inspiring the rest to greater eff
forts, thus coming to the false con-
clusion that there is no class strug-
gle.
But the class struggle cannot be
winked at, or shut out of existence
with the closing of an eye, eten
by socialists, either in or out OF
the unions. Every trade union
convention, every labor struggle
proves that. The fact that social
lists and liberals have joined the
capitalists in their struggle against
the left wing and the Communists
indicates that the class struggle is
becoming clearer, not that it is
blurred.