The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-23
The MaCRiniStS
Journal is LifGIGSS
By V. Q.

That the Machinists' Monthlc
Journal is lifeless can be seen by
even a hasty glance at any copy. Let
US analyze the latest one, for June,
1927. Of the 81 pages of written
matter 25 are given over to the Can
adam 60th anniversary Of the con-
federation land only pages of these
to the story of Canadian Labor.) The
editor calls this the Canadian Is
sue" and says that the American
workers pay a compliment to their
Canadian brothers by joining in the
Canadian jubilee celebration" Arti-
cles are printed on Celebration Of the
Jubilee, Sixty Years Development in
Canadian Industry and Trade 1867
1927, Canada's Railways, The Story
Of Confederation, The Labor Move
ment in Canada, 1S67-1927. Cenada's
Future Glory, The Canadian Rebel
lion of 1887, and Canada-Present
and Future.
Very little of this deals with la
Dor.
Little to Do With Labor.
The article on railways shows his
tory rate of growth and revenues,
revealing that all Canadian railways
earned in 1926 the largest amount
ever earned, but not a word on COM
parison with wages. The article on
the celebration of the jubilee has pic
lures of the worthless Prince Of
Wales, of King, the Premier of Can
ada, and one Of Tom Moore, So
called representative of the Canadian
workers. To show the wonderful de-
velopment of Canada, figures are
given on population, agriculture,
fisheries and manufacturing An at
tempt is made to show great in
ereases in wages, but when one ex-
amines their figures as TO wages, in
GLIDING salaries to officials, we
get an average wage of less than
s1100 a year. Surely nothing to brag
about.
No attempt is made to tell the con-
dition of the farm worker or the
tenant farmer. From the story on
Confederation, we get seeming JUS
tification for opposition to labor mea-
sures, as explained by "Labor's Cana
dian representative, J. A. Hayden,
who secured the articles on Canada
for this issue, as follows: Labor has
often sought changes to centralize
authority on social and labor legisla-
ton but legislators, especially in On
tario and Quebec, strenuously oppose
such action largely upon the ground
that it might initiate against the
rights guaranteed minorities in the
pact No attempt to show that the
employers use this argument to pro-
tect their selfish interests, just as
in this country, textile mill owners
wrap the flag of states right around
them to fight the Child Labor
Amendment. The story of Confeder-
alton, taken from Canadian year
books, as the writer admits, is like
the story of the American Constitu-
ton if taken from the school books,
without Analysing the class forces,
the fight of the debtor and creditor
classes, etc.
Canada's Labor Story.
And what do we get in the four
pages devoted to the story of labor
Mostly historical, dealing with the
early organization of the Iron Mol
ers and the Typographical Union.
and praise of the Ontario Worlmen's
Compensation Act in 1915, and for a
bill allowing the registration of union
labels. The writer admits that
many judges have held that picket
ing of any kind is illegal in Canada
and says that this is Strange to re-
late" And to sum up the article, we
find that Canadian Labor is seeking
(evidently as the reward for its sup.
port Of the jubilee) amendments
that would curtail the veto power
Of the Senate and give parliament
control over social and labor 'legisla,
ton" But not a word of the strug.
giles of Canadian labor, not a wore
Of the brave battles of the Novt
Scotia miners against the British
Empire Steel Corporation, of thu
government support of Besco will