The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-13
7CHINA B0YCOTTS IMPERIALIST INVADER!
Cu1YentE
By T. J. o'F1AHERrY.

that it is mot an agitator but an
educator" The paper is published in
Birmingham, Alabama. At the bot
tom of the first page there is line
which reads: "Read J. A. Bryan's
sermon on page two in this ISSUE"
This is the bunk, particularly for a
labor paper. An educator is neces-
sarily an agitator. When one turns
a new idea loose among a flock of
antique notions there is bound to be
trouble. And if the new idea con-
quers the old ones retreat.
THIS fake labor sheet is catering to
the prejudices that have been cul-
tivated in the minds of the masses by
the capitalist rulers of this country
and of all countries where capitalism
is the dominant economic system.
Those who now rule fear the agita-
tor who comes along with the mess
age of mass emancipation. This is
mighty good system for those who
live on the labor of others. Being
only a small minority of the popula-
ton they know that once the work
ers realize that they are being fleeced
and that they have the power to
stop the Fleeing, their day will have
seen its last sunset.
THERE are several hundred rags of
this sort posing as labor papers
in the United States. They bear the
same relation to the trade union move
ment that maggots bear to sheep.
They suck the life blood out of it.
Their owners depend for a living on
the advertising revenue wheedled out
of local business. The American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor supplies them with
hol1um labelled "labor news" The
keynote of this news is that agita-
tors and that those who would urge
the workers to fight for betterment
of their living conditions must be
crushed.
THE denizons of the bible belt may
be excused for being engaged in
the business of publishing antique
ideas. There is a possibility that a
modicum of honesty may be mixed
with their ignorance. But honesty in
this case is synonymous with simplic-
ity' and simplicity being ignorance is
the explanation for the position of
servitude in which the workers are
today. There is no such excuse for
the acts of labor bureaucrats like Mat
thew Woll or William Green. Those
gentlemen are conscious agents of the
capitalist class. Whether they get
paid directly by the employers or in
directly thru their investments in bust
ness the fact remains that they are
sharers in the loot that capitalism ex-
racts from the working class.
NOW we have the spectacle of Mat
~ thew Woll, a vice president of the
American Federation of Labor organ
izing committee to investigate Com
munist activity in the United States.
This committee will not be exclusively
composed of trade union officials. 1t
will be a conglomeration of "represen-
tatives of the church, the legal pro-
fession, of business organizations, Of
educational institutions, of associated
employers and organized labor" And
it will assist the civil authorities in
suppressing Communist" strikes.
Which means that it will play the role
of Z glorified stool-pigeon agency. It
is safe to say offhand that no labor
official in the history of the trade
union movement, not actually on the
payroll of detective agency took the
step that Mr.. Vol proudly announces
he is taking.
WHY are the capitalists and the trade
" union bureaucrats so frightened of
the Communist movement in the
United States since it is admitted by
both friend and foe that the move
ment is very weak numerically here?
The capitalists and their spokesman,
tell us that the American worker will
never swap his GLORIOUS institutions"
for the Communist system. Yet they
are WuliiSA* Inc capitalists DeCduSe
they fear for the stability Of their
system, and the. trade union grafters
and bureaucrats because they know
that an intelligent and militant rank
and file would speedily replace them
with leaders who would fight the enc
mics Of the workers.
1T is true that the capitalist system
1 in the United States is compara-
lively healthy. 1t is still on the up
grade. But the system is on the de-
cline internationally. And the Soviet
Union is a perpetual nightmare to the
capitalists of the world 1t is a night
mare to the labor takers. When the
latter are warning on the Commun-
lists in the American trade union
movement, they are striking a blow
for capitalism and particularly for
American capitalism all over the
world. Note that the A. +. of l.. has
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