The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
By ROBERT DUNN.
ARTICLE II.

form Of nearsightedness which has
been growing lately among the big
army and navy enthusiasts and the
major generals at large, as we'll as
among certain civilian busybodies.
He suffers from willful failure to
discriminate between organizations,
persons and principles. They all look
alike to him and they all look as red
as Moscow-not only the out-and-out
bolsheviks but the socialists (''pinksD,
anarchists, philosophical and other
wise), Fabians, church peace societies,
liberals, pacifists, mild progressives,
advocates of child labor amendments,
youth movements, plumb planners,
open forumites, farm relief propo-
nents, municipal ownership defenders,
cooperationists, British Labor Party
members, peace councils Of women,
fellowships of reconciliation, confer
ences TO reduce ornaments, nom
partisan leagues, non-resistants, wo-
mems trade union leagues, christian
endeavor societies that discuss the
ethics of capitalism, economics pro-
fessors who have read Karl Marx
all are the same lot of "Reds" in the
eyes of Easley.
And as for the Quakers, Mr.. Easley
just can't control himself. eff ! had
my way, I'd run every damn Quaker
out of the country" 1t is apparent
from the gentlemen's rawlings that he
kna 10 -
out of this Republic who happens not to
equal him in his prodigious intoler-
ence for ideas. This noisy, foolish,
self-acclaimed red-sniffer would like
nothing better than to see all the
persons who favor minimum wage
legislation and old age pensions put
into another Buford and deported to
outer darkness-or to Soviet Russia.
Labor's Slant On Easley.
What the rank and file of the Uni
ted Mine Workers of America think
of Mr.. Easley as a "conciliator" of
labor and capital is reflected in the
following quotation from their con-
stitution:
"Mine managers, top foremen,
operators commissioners, persons
engaged in the sale of intoxicating
liquors and members of the Civic
Federations shall not be eligible to
membership"
And the attitude of another A. F.
of L., international union may be
gathered from the resolution adopted
under left wing pressure at the con-
vention of the International Ladies
Garment Workers of America at their
Philadelphia convention in 1925:
WHEREAS, the National Civic
Federation is an organization tend
ing to perpetuate the slavery of
the working class and it's spirit is
therefore contrary to that of our
International Union and of all pro-
gressive labor unions, and
WHEREAS, some of the worst
enemies of labor in the United
States are members of said Nation
al Civic Federation and have great
influence in its deliberation, and
WHEREAS, we consider it in
consistent for labor men to belong
to said organization and to give
thereby prestige to our enemies, be
it therefore
"RESOLVED, that we instruct
our delegates to all future annual
conventions of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to introduce and
vote for a resolution that all Off
GERS of the American Federation of
Labor who are at present connec-
ted with the National Civic Fedora
ton should severe all affiliations
with that Body"
These instructions were of course
not carried out. Imagine Mr.. Sigman
introducing such resolution!
The machinists and other unions
have taken similar action and for
hidden their officers to have any
thing to do with the business, fascist,
and open shop elements represented
by the Civic Federation. Why they
do this is evident from Easley's
record, as well as from what even the
most conservative economists say
about him in their works.
DR.. Clarence T.. Bennett, Professor
Of Economics at Tulane University of
Louisiana, in his book on Employers
Associations in the United States"
writes:
"The Federation has always had
9mong its members large num-
her of the leading financiers of the
world. there can hardly be a ques-
ton that any other employers
association in the country is so in
timately connected with Wall
Street. -
No wonder intelligent labor unions
instruct their officials to stay clear
Of contamination from this fedora
tion.
Financial Backers.
AS for Mr.. Easley's supporters, one
needs but to glance over the list of
the capital" and public" members of