The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-24

THE cartoon accompanying this article gives you
better picture of the role played by the reac-
tionary leaders of the American Federation of La
Dor than thousands of words. But since people in
sist on reading articles they must be served.
Those who have had the opportunity of visiting
that delightfully."- interesting and uplifting place. the
stockyards of Chicago will be better able to appre
ciate Fred Ess excellent drawing than those whose
mountaineering with the yards" is confined to
reading of Sinclairs "Jurgle" or the neat script
the wrappers that enfold Armours choice hams.
There are trained fleas trained dogs and trained
animals of many varieties. We may live to see the
day when even bed bugs be trained to bite only
democrats and republicans. But those animals and
vermin do their stunts the stage to the great
delight of an audience and to the profit of their
owners. They don't hurt anybody. But the trained
rams like the pictured by Ellis, lead their fell
lows to the butchers knife and return for more.
Surely this is about as low a moral level four
legged animal could sink to. The only excuse
make for the traitorous stockyards is that
they don't know any better, not being able to think.
We sincerely hope that some vegetarian Freud
ian does not start argument with US and insist
that rams do think. AS matter of fact the
with the great majority of in this respect if
we lump them with the one billion and half or so
of human beings that make up the population of the
earth.
Be that as it may the prosperous, conservative,
respectable, patriotic law-abiding, leaders of the
American Federation of Labor will meet at Los An
geles in the early part of October to devote week
O two in that pleasant climate, to the business
of devsing ways and means to keep the working
class of the United States, the slaves of MILL mine
and factory, contented with the shackles of wage.
slavery for another year. They will overhaul the
policies formulated by them at past conventions if
those policies may carry the slightest suggestion of
RESPONSIVENESS. They will deliver we-directed
rhetorical blasts against the radicals and scourge
the Soviet Union with the scorpion whips of their
vocal wrath. For all those services they will expect
than tolerance from the capitalists The train
ed rams of the stockyards' merely allowed to
live until old age palsies their limbs. The trained
rams of betrayed unionism demand their milk and
honey, the reward of their treason to the working
class.
In all the great strikes that have taken place in
this country for several years past the high official
dom of the A. F. of L. has invariably functioned as
trained in inducing the strikers to return to
their slave pens before their demands were met Of
course strikers are human beings and human beings
do not always act like sheep. So trained trade
union rams must use their brains as well as their
pedal extremities.
When 100000 steel workers walked out of the
steel mills in 1919 and for six months waged heroic
battle against the mightiest industrial power in the
United States backed by the forces of the govern
ment, the reactionary officialdom of the American
Federation of Labor permitted Mike Tghe, pres-
dent of the Amalgamated Association of Steel Tin
and Iron Workers to sabotage the strike. Despite
the heroism of the strikers and the mtancy of the
radical leadership of that strike, the workers were
forced back to the industrial shambles and the
poyes of the United States Steel Trust remain un-
organized until this day, with the confidence of the
workers in trade unionism impaired as a result of
shat treachery.
When the railroad workers struck in 1922 and
crippled the lines from coast to coast there