The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-17
Current Evemts
By T. J. O'FIaherty

THE Chief reason ascribed for the
existence of the executive council
of the American Federation of Labor
by Matthew Woll, one of its most
vocal vice-presidents is to aid and
direct collaboration between labor,
management of industry and capital.
This is rather pleasant and perhaps
remunerative role for trade union
leadership in this era of American
imperialist hegemony. 1t should be
noted that Mr.. Woll is acting -presi-
dent of the open-shop, anti-union
Civic Federation.
OLD time socialist orators had the
" knack of exposing the fallacy of
cooperation between labor and capi-
tai as workingclass panacea. Their
favorite illustration was the lamb ly-
ing down with the lion and waking
up just about the time his tail was
disappearing thru the lions mouth.
Or the lion might be seen rising from
his repast licking his chops with
satisfaction and picking his teeth with
the lambs funnybone. Nowadays,
socialists are not guilty of such vulgar
siniles. Those that are left are too
busy fighting the radicals and
furthermore they cannot afford to get
fresh with their reactionary allies.
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THE ex-secretary of the New Jersey
Federation of Labor was purged
of Gin b1y n ,,pop;,,,o,,- ,-o+a 6 L.
fellow takers after the ex-secretary
had admitted that one-half of the in
come of the state body for several
years has been contributed by open
shop employers. 1t is not surprising
that the capitalist papers soft-pedalled
the. exposure, but our German trans
lator informs US that the Volkzeitung,
printed news item telling of the ex-
secretary's eXoneration without a
word of explanation. 'News for
news sake" is bad slogan for a
workingclass paper.
TIE admission made by the ex-seere-
tary of the New Jersey Fedora
ton of Labor, that the employers sub
sidized that organization to the ex-
tent of 100000 to his knowledge, is
one of the biggest pieces of news
that broke in the labor movement for
many years. AS a boil on the human
body is sign that impurities in the
blood are breaking thru, this con-
fession is another sign of the cancer
that is feeding on the heart of the
\ n froC do !
the takers responsible for this disease
hide their perfidy by waging per-
petual war on the radicals who in
sist on cleaning the Augean stable
of trade unionism and breaking the
workers away from the capitalist
grip.
IOHN H. WALKER, president of the
Illinois State Federation of Labor
whose addiction to weeping has
gained him nationwide notoriety, in
his report to the annual convention of
that body, states among other things
that the International Labor Defense
collected S500,000 for the defense of
Sacco and Vanzetti and did not de-
vote all the money to the purpose for
which it was collected. Of course
this is downright lie and nobody
knows this better than, weeping
John" But John was smeared with
scandal in the last senatorial pri-
maries in Illinois, when he was
charged with accepting money from
Frank L. Smith, for delivering the la
Dor vote to Samuel Insults pet candi-
date. John indignantly denied the
charge, but he now wants to shift
the remnants of suspicion by making
counter-attack on the LID. For
tunately the labor takers are so dis
credited by their own conduct that
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