The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-05
BY WILLIAM F. dunno.

executive council is the lacI IhaG III
its "a pages there is not one word or
line in connection with the strike Of
the United Mine Workers of America
the largest union in the Federation
according to Secretary Morrison's
figures) and engaged in struggle
for it's life.
THE explanation for this otherwise
L incomprehensible omission is to be
found in the policy of the executive
council which is set forth on Page l6
under the head Of Outstanding
Achievements - Progress Toward
Mutual Understanding" Taken in con-
nection with failure to even mention
the nationwide strike of its largest
union in it's official report, the follow
ing statements are of the greatest
significance;
q. Formerly Labor allowed spec
tacular incidents of strife to over
shadow the more important events OF
constructive development and service
BY SHIFTING ATTENTION
FROM PROBLEMS OF DEFENSE
OR AGGRESSION TO THOSE OF
CONSTRUCTIVE BUILDING, the
relative Importance of the sustained
work of the union becomes more OBJ
vious. With the extension of
this policy, thruout the whole labor
movement is coming more general
and keener appreciation of the value
of the unions. THE BUSINESS AID
VANTAGE OF UNIONIZATION
HAS BECOME MORE GENERALLY
ACCEPTED"
HERE in a few words is contained
III the whole policy of abandonment
of struggle and of surrender to Amer
lean capitalism. So deeply has this
poisonous policy taken root that the
official leadership of the American
labor movement does not consider it
necessary to so much as mention one
of the greatest labor struggles in the
history of American labor-a strug-
gle whose outcome will be decisive
for the American working class for a
long period.
The report itself is a strange
d oeument. In it's introduction,
as already indie tied, all the
emphasis is on peace and coopera-
ton with other social groups
meaning of course those socia
groups, beginning with the bosses,
which accept American capitalism as
the best of all possible social sys-
TENS. But the body of the report,
especially those sections dealing with
attitude of government and capital
lists, is a complete refutation of the
theory on which the introduction and
the report as whole is based.e
TRY as they will, the members of
the executive council cannot find
facts to prove their contention that
the labor movement increases in
power in proportion as it abandons
struggle and accepts the role of adj
junct to the machinery of capitalist
production and capitalist govern
ment.
This, of course, is what the exec
utive council means when it says the
business advantage of unionization
has become more generally accepted"
1t would like to say that the lad
vantage of BUSINESS UNIONIZA-
TION has become more generally ac-
copied" but this perhaps would be ad-
vocating a little too boldly the united
front with the bosses which is the es-
sence of its policy.
IT is dreary record we encounter
when the executive council report
lists the achievements" since the De-
troit convention. In practically every
field of labor activity the executive
council fails to conceal the fact that
the labor movement has suffered de-
feat. It's report tries to overcome
this obvious truth by recording as
successes minor and meaningless ac-
tivities of its various members and
committees. A fair sample of this
method is the full page devoted to
the sterling efforts of Matthew Woll
is establishing cooperative relation
ships" with the American Bar Asso-
citation.
THE Sacco-Vanzetti case, arousing
the greatest protest against the
| frame-up of workers that the world
has ever seen, is not considered i'm
portant enough by the executive coun-
Gil to be listed in the index to its re-
port tho it lists as one item Com
pers, Samuel Memorial" a project
wh:N has secured such mass sup
port that the magnificent sum of
$98.50 is given as the total contrlbu-
ton made by mourning admirers OF
President Green's predecessor.
Thus the two great labor struggles
of the past year---that for Sacco and
Vanzetti, and the strike Of the
miners union--are wiped from the
records of the executive council.
One can say that the amount OF
attention in it's report given to these
two labor battles corresponds exactly
to the services rendered to the work
ing class in these struggles by the
executive council.
GO much by way of introduction to