The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-25


tional agreements and the work
pending settlement policy"
HINDER this dispensation several
union mines have resumed opera
tons, hiring men as they see fit. The
unemployed miners must work so that
they may eat and as settlement may
never take place for all the miners
know, the unemployed must pack up
their belongings and hike elsewhere
in search of work. This solves the
problem as far as the operators are
concerned. 1t means nothing else but
the liquidation Of the union as pro-
lection for the miners. This is as
clear a piece of treachery as was
ever proven against a trade union
leadership. 1t explains Searles' at
tack on the radicals, which is an at
tempt to switch attention from the
perfidy of the Lewis official family
to a new red-baiting campaign.
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IT takes policeman to be several
centuries behind the times, even in
the passing stupidities. There was a
time when a general belief in the
flatness of the earth prevailed. Sci
ence had its work cut out for it for
several centuries puncturing super
stitions and some of them have sur
vived even yet. There was one that
science did not bother with. It was
the belief that every socialist looked
like an inverted broom from the neck
up. To wear full length crop of
hair was prima facie evidence that
the grower harbored "subversive"
ideas. Had this been so, before wo-
men bobbed their hair there would be
no capitalist system by now.
HOWEVER, this idea went the way
"A of the "nation of fatherless chill
dren" during the war and afterwards.
But the New York police are holding
the chin red line" for decomposed
superstition. One of them, a warrior
of the picket line in the furriers'
strike, informed judge that several
Communists were picketing. How did
he know? They had long hair. If
this flatheaded fellow ever had look
at the House of David he would ex-
perience conclusion of the heels. He
would find whiskers there in their
pristine glory, but not an idea in
their vicinity of vintage later than
200 B. c.
NOW that Miss Anita Whitney has
/" been pardoned by the governor of
California there is no reason in the
world why the l. w. w. victims Of
California persecution who are pin
ing behind prison bars should not be
given the freedom that they should
have never been deprived of. Miss
Whitney had influential friends and.
her age and gentle character made ~
exceedingly inexpedient for the RI
classes Of California to imprison
But she is just as guilty as the
w. boys that are fretting behin
gray walls Of San Quentin. It is 6
time for a revival of agitation
open the prison gates for every
tim of class injustice in the Unite
States.
THE date set for the execution of
Sacco and Vanzetti is drawing dan
gerously near. July 10th is now only
a few weeks away and the fate of
these two workers is in the hands of
one person, the governor of Massa-
chusetts. We must not be lulled into
feeling of false optimism because
large number Of respectable people
have urged the governor to pardon.
A great mass agitation is the best
guarantee that the murderous ruling
classes of Massachusetts will not exc
cute Sacco and Vanzetti or bury them
in prison for the rest Of their lives.
Saeco and Vanzetti Shall Not niei