The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
Professional Patriots
and Labor Leaders
By ROBERT DUNN.

tcTHERE are it seems, patriots and patriOts-the
great unwashed kind to which most of us be-
long, and the prodigiOus kind of which Mr.. Easley
is the dean"
These words were used by Captain Sidney Howard in
series of articles "Our Professional Patriots which
appeared in the New Republic in 1924 Captain Howard
placed Ralph Montgomery Easey, head of the National
Civic Federation at the top of the list Of self
appointed busnessb backed, hell-roaring flag wavers
He retains that position today.
Matthew Wo vice-president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor is his understudy 1t is good to see that
the Locomotive Engineers Journal, and few other la
Dor papers including The DAILY WORKER, have come
out squarely against this corporation darling, who has
been cultvang" the acquaintance of labor leaders for
many years in effort to nst the most reactonary
ideas into the labor movement.
There is no room here to review the of this
careerst to size up his original plan to bring capital
and labor together to show how this scheme evolved
during the days into wild and whooping pursuit
of so-called seditonsts and ended up with the most
divertng sales against "Bolsheviks' in all walks of
life 1t is sufficient note that Easley and his organ
zaon have, for the past twenty years, existed chiefly
for the purpose of sping ali progress in the trade
unions well other fields of social activity. 1t is
sufficient to set down simply the of the persons
Easy has been moved to attack in his desperate efforts
to scotch all liberasm-and of course radcalism-in
the bud.
The Objects of His Wrath.
Some of the persons this man Easley has gone of
his way to SANDER and malign are the following
virtual Who's Who of Social Reform Look at them and
their crimes Rev. Iddngs Bell, President of the Epis
copalian St. Stephens College at Annadale-on-the Hud
son-taught liberal economics to students, Bishop
Charles A. Brent of Buffalo, former chaplain of the
American Expeditonary Forces in Francefor advocat
ing amnesty for political prisoners H. G. Wells-for
his Outline of History, President Hopkins of Dart
mouth College-for advocating free speech Captain
Paxton Hbben Of the American Committee for Relief of
Russian Children Ton whose committee such citizens
as Rev. VIM E. Barton DID,, Rev. Timothy Demsey,
Prof John Dewey David Starr Jordan John Fitzpatrick
of the Chicago Federation Of Labor Bishop Francis j.
Mcconnell, Cardinal William OConnen, Rev. Michael j..
0Connor, Frank P Walsh, and DR.. Stephen S. Wise)
Easey referred to Hibben "a rascal and seoundre
Reverend John Haynes Holiness referred to by Easley
wild and crazy,--Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin a
trustee of Yale Universty-called red"~ because he
founded that Labor Temple" 14th Street. New York
City, Presbyterian social settlement, Raymond Fos
dick advisor personnel policies large corporations
called wild red, Mrs Willard Straight, wife of
the late Willard Straight of j. P Morgan Co-called
"the most dangerous woman in America, DR.. Jerome
Davis, Professor at Vale Divinity School-see later in
this article for his rine Henry N. MacCracken Pres
dent of Vassar Collegefor certain innovations in stu
dent government, Reverend Harry F. Ward-Charman
of the American Civil Liberties Union and Professor of
christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary--for
sins too numerous to mention and finally host of
United States Senators and Congressman notably,
Messrs Borah, Wheeler, LaFollette Ladd King, Brook
hart and others who visited Soviet Russia and found it
quite different from the Russia depicted to Easey by
his tzarist-royast friends and by Mr.. Matthew Wol
Hates Many More.
In addition the above distinguished Americans on
the Civic Federation blacklist Mr.. Easley has during
the past few years eveed his darts at such assorted
"Red and Pink sympathzers, he calls them, Roger
n Baldwin, staunch defender of constitutional liberties
for all oppressed minorties Scott Nearing, author and
lecturer, Albert A. Purcell member of the British Par
lament and President of the international Federation
of Trade Unions, Miss Jane Adams of Hull House, Mr..
Walter Lppmann of the New York World, Messrs. Viii
lard and Gannett of the Nation all the editors of the
New Republic and the New Student, Mrs. J. Sergeant
Cram noted peace advocate Paul u kellogg editor of
the Survey, Mrs Florence Kelly of the National Con-
sumers League, Owen Lovejoy of the National Child
Labor Committee Porter Lee, head of the New York
School of Social Work, Frederick j. Libby, executive
secretary of the National Council for Prevention of
War, clearing house for of thoroughly
spectacle peace organizations, and Prof Charles A..
Beard of Columbia University.
And this by means exhausts alarmist Easeys list
of bold bad Bolshevks 1t illustrates however, the
type of person whose reputation and good standing in
the community he would sully destroyf he could,
just he and his labor official agents now trying
to destroy the good name of Ben Gold
Ito Be Continued)