The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-15
THE CORRUPTION OF new JERSEY LABOR
OFFICIALDOM Is NO ISOLATED INCIDENT
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brighten the open shop paymasters
into a more generous mood.
AS far as the rank and file of the
"A labor movement was concerned,
they were simply pawns in a crooked
game where everybody except the
dues paying membership and the un-
organized workers was slated to win.
The monstrous hypocrisy which
produced the rabid denunciation of
the Communists and the left wing in
their efforts to break thru the solid
front of capitalists and crooked labor
officials in Passaic and other cities
is now apparent.
With the price of treason in their
pockets, Hilfers and his henchmen,s
backed by President Green and Vice.
President Woll of the American Fede-
ration of Labor, themselves connected
with the open shop National Civic
Federation of Labor thru VOLTS Of
flee as Acting President, denounced
the Passaic strike and tried to get
control of the relief funds which made
the continuation of the strike pos
sible
THE purposes of Hilfers in this con-
nection are now as clear as day
to starve the strikers into submission
thru manipulation of relief funds.
The purposes of the drive on the
Communists and the left wing in
Passaic are likewise made clear-the
intention was to shift the issues of
union recognition, wages and work
ing conditions to Communism versus
trade unionism," to distract attention
from the strikebreaking role of
crooked labor leaders and enable
them to do the dirty work for labor's
enemies under the guise of 100 per-
cent Americanism-the patriotic pose
assumed by every scoundrel.
IT would be a grave mistake to see
in the New Jersey exposure an
isolated incident the cause of which
is crooked Hilfers with connections
high up in both the labor movement
and among the capitalists.
The causes lie far deeper than this
They are to be found only in the
systematic corruption Of official labor
leaders by the agencies of American
imperialism.
I ENIN, writing of the relations be-
Il tween labor officialdom and the
capitalists in the imperialist period,
| (huge exports of capital, possession
of a colonial empire, etc. said the
following:
SIT is easy to perceive, that from
such a large additional profit (for
it is received in addition to the
! profit which the capitalists ex-
tract from "their own" country
! labor leaders and the upper strata
of the workers aristocracy CAN
BE BRIBED. So the capitalists of
the progressive countries bride
them by a thousand means, direct
and indirect, open and secret"
NEW JERSEY is no isolated case.
~ There is little doubt that a probe
into the internal affairs of the labor
movements in all the chief industrial
states would disclose similar corrupt
conditions in practically all of them.
There is no other explanation for the
consistent failure of labor officialdom
to carry out the most elementary
duties of trade unionists.
These servants of the bosses must
be exposed and driven from the labor
movement. This is a herculean task
compared to which cleaning the
Augean stables was child's play-but
it can and it will be done.
IT is the first task on the order of
- business of the Communists and
the left wing. Especially is this