The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-31
million CHINESE HONOR STUDENT DEAD
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By t. J. o'FIAHERrY.


THERE are labor takers in all capl-
/ taHst countries but in no other
country in the world could one OF
this fraternity afford to openly ally
himself with the stoolpigeons OF the
CAPITALIST system and get away with
it. It is true that in England, Have
lock Wilson, head of the seamens
union is an accomplished fink but
even the British trade union bureau
cracv are forced to hold their noses
when the name of this odoriferous
gentleman is mentioned. In the Uni
ted States the labor stoolpigeon-
provided he works on a salary basis
and not on commissions accorded
the respect that prosperity usually
carries in its train.
THE particular faker that | am re-
l ferring to just now is Matthew
VOL. president of the Photo En-
gravers' Union, vice president OF
the American Federation of Labor,
head of the insurance company
founded by the A. F of L. and acting
president of the National Civic Fed
Grafton, an open shop patriotic aggre-
cation of capitalists and flunkeys
from the higher circles of the trade
union bureaucracy. Mr.. Vol has
made himself notorious among intelli-
gent workers by his willingness to
scab on the underpaid stoolpigeons
who stay up late at night writing the
illegible reports Of their days work
to their employers.
OWING to the amount of space used
v up by the capitalist press these
days in interpreting the young lad
Lindbergh to their readers it is some,
what difficult for a cheap skate like
VOL to make the first page. But
beggars cannot be choosers. Even a
position next to the money to loan"
advertisements is preferable to no
space at all. So in the New York
Times of Monday, May 30, we find
Vol in a corner on page five dc
handing that the United States gov
.osanent sa9dgct an investigation -
Soviet activities in the United States
with a view to deporting the Russian
trade officials now operating in this
country.
WHAT Mr.. Vol is chiefly con-
" cerned with is his own personal
interests. This parasite has lived on
the American workingclass since he
was old enough to realize that fell
low with a glib tongue, an elastic
conscience could get along working
the workers and quilting them with
the idea that their best interest would
be served by being loyal to their
masters and paying toll to some
legitimate CRATER who played the
role of middleman.
60 long as the workers parked their
y brains and allowed a few frauds to
do their thinking for them fellows
like Vol were safe. Their graft was
secure. But when the radicals, not
only told the workers that they must
do their own thinking but attempted
to organize them so that they would
be prepared to secure for themselves
the maximum benefit from the pro-
duct of their labor, Woll and his tribe
of leeches became panic stricken and
had to resort to the government and
it's policemen to help them retain their
seats on the backs of the workers.
WOLL'S patriotism is as sensitive
F" as his pocket book. His kind,
sold the national domain to the oil
magnates and almost got away with
it. They love this country because It
can stand lot Of grating. 1t is
rich. But would they die for it? Yes
by accident. They hate the radicals |
e.cause they know that sooner or
Later the workers will be obliged to
listels to what the radicals have to
say an to follow their advice. This
will be the day Of doom for gentle
men of the Woll type.
THERE is no essential difference be-
tween the part played by Matthew
Vol and his kind in the American
class struggle and the part played
\ by the Hindoo princes in India. Eng
lands policy-and the policy of all |
(imperialist powers in similar circum.
stances-has been to divide the con-
quered. England picked on the
nobility and put them on her payroll
the money being extracted from the
toll of the conquered. The noble hire
lings became the native overseers and
slavedrivers for the conquered.
IN the labor movement the capitalists
first fought the labor leaders and
then bought them. Sometimes there
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