The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-24
By WILLIAM F. DUNE

TIE quaker OdtS company and Libby. Mcneil
& Libby (meat packers)
The same business control appears in Mr.
Baruchs committees. His committee on "Ce-
ment consists OF the presidents of fonr of the
leading cement companies the vice-president
OF four of the leading cement companies the
Wce-presldent of fifth cement company and
representative of the Bureau of Standards of
washington. His committee Cooper" has
the names OF the presidents of the Anaconda
Copper Company, the Calumet & Hecla Mining
Company, the United Verde Copper Company
and the Utah Copper Company Mr. Murray
Guggenheim is member of the same committee
His committee "Steel and Steel Products
consists of Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the
United States Steel Corporation Charles M
Schwab, OF the Bethlehem Steel Company A.
Z. Dlnkey, ce-president of the Midyale Steel
Company, w. l.. King vice-presdent of Jones
Loughhn Steel Company, and ]. A. Burden
president OF the Burden Iron Company. The
other four members of the committee renra
sent the Republic Iron & Steel Comnapv the
Lackawanna Steel Company the American Iron
steer institute and the Picklands, Mather
Company, of Cleveland. Perhaps the most as
founding of all the committees is that on sOiI.
me chairman is the president of the Standard
Oil Company, and the secretary of the commit
tee gives his address "26 Broadway" the
address of the Standard Oil Company The other
nhe members OF the committee are oil men
from various parts of the country
If before the entry into the war, the American
"'ANNAS nettioS
OF the ordinary machinery of capitalist government
hey were scourged with scorpions by the tvrannical
exercise OF the power of these National Defense
Council committees with Samuel Gompers, president
oI the American Federation of Labor, as one of the
seven men In control of this huge machinery of
oppression.
So much for the united front in industry between
the official labor leadership and labor's enemies
but the united front against the masses was NOT
confined to industry. Acting in conjunction with
tne council OF National Defense, Senator Walsh of
Montana drafted and introduced the Esnionaoe Act
which, when it became law was the means of ~;
thousands OF workers, who placed LOYALTY to the
por movement and to their class before allegiance
to American Imperialism.
Enacted without single protest coming from
the official labor movement the Espionage Act was
he iatner Oh the equally vicious criminal syndicalism
ia"s enacted by a majority of the states These
too met with no opposition from, the official -
leader aitho they became in the hands of the can
esiists ana tnelr agents method by which evan
m urinary actlVltles OF the unions were outlawed
ana hunoreds of workers jailed for long terms
The paralyzing effect of the united front Of 1ab
officialdom the capitalists and the ooyorrt ~
De estimated by the fact that with the excentio ~
the long ana bitter strike in the metal MINING and
slneleing industry in and around Butte Montana in
IT. NJ MASS STRIKE IN BASIC INDUSTRY
IOOk PLACE DURING THE WAR altho +bo no+
OF living shot skyward W
just as the suppressive purposes of tho r,o.,
- NJ
ol NaOonal defense were expressed in the Espion-
age Act SO the State Councils of Defense Which
1.!so were organized as united fronts of labor Of
1T AZ WIN local capitalists busted themselves
win the application of the state criminal svndica1-
ISM ISM laws as well as with the enforcement of the
Ieoefal Espionage Act. when was tried and con-
yictea OF sedltlon in Helena, Montana. under tba
provisions of the state sedition law the nrinc;naI
for the prosecution were the governor Of
tne STATE copper trust lackey, and the presidents
OF the State Federation of Labor) f-N'Ne"'
and local, with practically no excentions baoas
par' Oh tne war machinery Union officials worked I
lana IN hand with the department of Justice and
ne intelligence service to railroad "troube
some workers to jail The captains of ;ndustrv
FRS. - e iaoor read
Charles Schwab, head of Bethlehem Steel toured
he shipyards with labor officials and appeared on ;,
ne platforms during Liberty Loan drives with his =
rms around their shoulders, all members of the :
lnhoy alliance hoarsey urging the workers to speed