The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-12
lIoge and Bigger Consultations "-The Antitrust Laws
The Government and the Labor Movement


the power of capitalist industry in this period
Backed by government the coal barons striking ter
rifle blows the United Mine Workers The injunction against
the entire American Federation of Labor sought by the traction
interests City direct offshoot of the capitalist
the unions and interviewer in the whole fabric whose
strangng folds being the unions yellow dog
contracts company unionism and speed-up systems.
The Wall Street Journal has the following the A F.
of L. ofciadom opposition to legal restraints imposed on the
unions
boycott goods produced by labor
established legal unonsm could create end of trouble
who produce hem matter how contened their
direct employees might be- 1t no exaggeaon to say that 1t
could then put them of business and leave them
redress the cut stone in the federal courts have shown
IT, likewise the yellow dog contract in which the empoye
not join union the association of those work
ing for the employer be sufficiently dcreded
barred by statute first blood Will be won against the company
union And with that form of industrial accord disposed Of the
tied together the Federation will offer workers
practically their sole opportunity for cooperation collective
ton in their interest"
obviously the Street continues "these would
be long steps toward the establishment of effective labor
nopoly.
The Journal goes that BARRING specific of
judgment the of the injunction by the courts has been in the
of acts of forcbe restraint against the GENERAL
good" (Our emphass)
Deporng that the nterborough Rapid Transit Com
pans reputation such rally the broadest possible
port for its injunction war on the labor movement The wall Street
Journal concludes nevertheless that the fight must be supported
the sessions of the Mining Congress- Gilbert H.
Montague an expert oophoe finder for big business told the del
the Coolidge administration the greatest friend
combinations of big capital which had been parked in the
m House He commended the supreme court the department
justice and the federal trade commission for their inter
the welfare of corporations and the delegates and
inning engineers appauded loudly.
antitrus whose application
brings these pauds from the agents of capitalists and the
ss Themselves the target of bitter criticism from
the source.
But a method been worked whereby only the
organizations Of workers which today conflict with the
provisions of these laws The Standard Oil Company instance
is cleared of all guilt in connection with restraint of trade the
forune which overaks its competitors but the
outlaws the United Mine Workers Union for organizing workers.
sign yellow dog contracts
OF
Consolidate capamhis is the motto of the Coolidge ad-
mnistraton Montague the corporation lawyer told the Mining
Congress:
Never the history of the antitrust law has their nterpre
taon by the court and their administration by the
been sympathetic the and future
needs of American business.
Business only just beginning realize what
rey of and effective methods for sabzng business
home and for extending business abroad have become available
decisions rulings supreme
the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission
ore and bigger consultations among producers,
and distributors under proper conditions and with adequate
legal safeguards permitted and indeed invited by the
attitude OF the court and the government. More and
bigger consultations be expected number of indus
tries that the worst sufferers from these conditions
The ottIcladom OF the American Federation of Labor is
forced reluctantly recognize the breakdown of its whole policy
Of class efficiency unionm trade union capitalism and
slavh submission to the policy of Wall Streets labor and
departments insofar its ability to enough concessions
to keep the masses quiescent is concerned.
In the current number of the American Feeratons there
it coincidence that three leading editorials deal
njuncons in general with the njmctons against the United
Mine Workers of America and with the Injunction sought by the
traction barons against the whole labor movement
President Green the first sentence Of the first ed-
toa Trade Unionss face to face U condition that
The life OF movement This is the frankest
acknowledgements OF the serious Of the facing the
movement that has been made by OF the influential
~ n of L. leaders and because it is made only six weeks
liter the class peace Los Angeles convention adjourned
GUu0iy significant.
The government is smashing the unions This is the main
line of the Coolidge at home relation to the working
class For the capitalist class Montague the corpo-
ration lawyer, says, more and bigger consultations"
The labor movement discard it's middle class
sumer attitude toward justification 1t must understand that
this Of the mperiast for suppression of the
home and conquest abroad and merely
for raising prices.
The official leadership of the labor has argu