The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-14
Capitalist Party Office Holders Build Their
Fortunes on Misery in the Coal Fields

of the miners shown by this attitude
becomes clear as we read further Ii
the same dispatch that
SOS. when Secretary Mellon was
frequently under fire in the senate,
Reed became known as the unofficial
spokesman for Mellon"
Bosom Friends.
The close connection between the
so-called progressive senator's and
the Mellon machine, the utter impos-
sibility of such elements fighting for
anyone except the middle class they
represent, to secure some small con-
cessions from the big capitalists, and
the utter disregard of the interests
of the workers which prompts sup
port of these capitalist agents by la
Dor officialdom, is revealed again in
another paragraph from a Washing
ton dispatch to the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette which reads:
Senator Norris of Nebraska, who
campaigned against Ware in.
1926. -. will do nothing which
would impair Reed chance to re-
turn to the senate this year. Even
though Norris and Pinchot are close
friends, the personal relations which
exist between Reed and Norris are
such that Reed has no reason to
fear opposition from this quarter"
Boosting MONEYS Jailors.
Senator Johnson of California, one
OF the chief jailors of Tom Mooney
and Warren Billings, is reaping a
huge harvest of publicity in the Of
ficial labor press by reason Of his
introduction of resolution for calling
for an investigation of the coal strike.
Senator Wheeler shares the limelight
with him.
Labor" the official organ of the
sixteen standard railway unions"
says in two-column head in it's issue
for February IL: "Johnson's ELOQUENT
Plea For Miners Stirs Senate"
Why Wheeler Was Moved"
One of those most impressed by
Johnson's speech was Senator Wheel
err. 1t would be poor politics to al
low republican senator to grab all
the gravy in connection with such a
burning issue and therefore as 'La-
Dor" faithfully reports:
Following Johnson's speech
Senator Wheeler Of Montana.
visited the coal fields"
He was so moved by the suffer-
ing he witnessed there that he hur-
ried back to Washington and at a
meeting on Monday morning de-
manded that all other business be
sidetracked in order that Johnson's
resolution might be considered"
Generating the Cossacks.
We almost forgot to mention that
Senator Johnson in replying to some
remarks of Reed of Pennsylvania ex-
onerated the state constabuIary, the
cossacks whom the labor movement
has been fighting for years. John
son said:
Il have said nothing about the
state constabulary. ~. The state
troopers get along fairly we'll with
the miners"
The official labor leadership GER
tainly is paying a high price for the
eloquent plea" of the California
senator in whose state there are
no coal mines.
How Officialdom Will Act.
The investigation will drag along.
1t will make the struggle in the
coal fields part Of the records of the
senate and the horrible wrongs in
flicted on the miners and their fami-
lies will be used to prove the chaos
in the coal mining industry and as
an argument for encouraging trust
ification and union management CO.
operation. In the meanwhile the coal
barons win continue their attacks,