The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-13

cuts, heightened hours, and hellish
wars.
It's time the tables were turned in
this country, and things were put
head-up for the working masses.
THE International Printing Press
! men and Assistants Union is an
organization of highly skilled work
ers. Its leadership Is extremely re-
dictionary. Major Berry, its president,
is in the right wing of The Republican
Party and is one of the biggest
boosters Of the worst brand of class
collaboration.
This year the biennial election for
international officers that was to be
held, will not be held. The Major
boosts there is no opposition to HIM.
lie wouldn't allow any opposition to
get started. MIR. Berry also brags
that his union stands for capitalist
ownership, Cancellation, arbitration
and the elimination of "the disastrous
results that accrue from strikes" The
fighting Major is all for peace with
the bosses. 1t pays them. And why
should any grateful man bite the
hand that is feeding him?
Berry's union is exactly the kind
OF union the employers want. It is
becoming more and more an employ
ment agency, a personnel manage
ment bureau, serving to select doclle,
efficient, obedienG, Industrious wage
workers for the bosses. Leaders of
such unions are more like employ
ment bureau directors than labor lead
ers. Such policies inevitably lead to
company unionism.
Between Berryism and trade union
ISM there can be no compromise. The
Berrys, the VOLS, The Greens and the
Lewises must be driven out of the
labor movement or the unions will be
driven out OF existence. Throw out
the Berrys and save the unions.
ONE can almost lay down a general
y rule that whenever capitalists
work overtime talking about future
prosperity, we are in for depression.
Likewise whenever imperialists are
arranging peace talks, conferences
Tor "amicable relations" we are near
ing war.
Take the Havana conference. This
IS not a peace conference. It is a
war conference. While Coolidge and
Kellogg IN Havana talk of friendship
for Latin-America, the marines of
which Coolidge is commander-in-chief
are shooting down workers and far
-mers in Nicaragua. Indeed Coolids-
has chosen an appropriate home for
himself when he picked superdraad-
nought!
Coolidge, Kellogg, Hughes. Unaar.
wood, Fletcher make up the YanIee
imperialist galaxy 10 TINS ran-asu=-,-f
can gathering. The Americans mean
business. If you don't believe it. AK
Haiti, San Domingo. Panama and
Nicaragua. No motion will be enter-
Iained by Kellogg against Nicara-
guam invasion of the United States.
1t is not necessary. Nor will any
steps be taken to prevent American
occupation Of British Honduras. That
is not necessary either. Great Britain
is still powerful imperialist force
to contend with. This being a CAPT.
talist peace conference, the first and
only order of business in Havana will
be to find more careful v,,oro ,lx;yl
ful, effective means with which
America will be enabled to continue
its bluffing, bullying and dominating
the Latin-American countries. Be-
tween the robbers and the robbed. the
plunderers and the plundered, the i'm
perialist bandits and the oppressed
colonial peoples, there can be no gen.
uine peace. No fake conferences like
the one in Havana can change this