The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-29
Told You So

-hcIS VI america are beg
glng the coal operators to sign con-
tracts with them under almost anv
condltlons. accepting a reduction
OF wages for the miners is the least
OF those lads worries. Of course
there is going to be no reduction in
the salaries of the union officials
John l.. Lewis will still draw his
$4,000 year with an equal amount
for expenses.
THE officials of the international
union and the district officials
are not devoting all their time to
chasing hard-boiled coal operators
with pleas for conference and a
contract. Comrade B. K. Gebert
who is active in the anthracite re-
glon, sent in program of ''Civic
Testimonial" in honor of the Right
Reverend Monsignor James S. Fa-
gan, of Hazelton, Pa, of which
Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treas-
urer of the U. M. w. OF A. is Gem
eral Chairman. With Mr.. Kennedy
on the committee is a coal companv
lawyer by the name of John H.
Bigelow.
IN his opening remarks brother
Kennedy quoted from the "holv
gospel" the old gag, 'He that exalt-
eth himself shall be humbled and he
that humbleth himself shall be ex-
allied" Perhaps the striking coal
diggers had exalted themselves
overmuch in fighting for the preser- =
walton of the Jacksonville scale and
now being properly humbled ac-
cordlng to scripture by a reduction
in wages. Mr.. John L. Lewis. who
according to the catholic catechism
should go straight to hell-provided
he can go straight even on that
straight road-for his failure to see
the true faith, joined in his praise
of the Reverend Pagan for "promot-
ing harmony between employer and
employee" And so on.
WHAT the starving miners of the
F" bituminous coal fields may think
OF the stately ceremony and gorge
Gus pomp" that marked the eleva-
ton of the Rev. Pagan to the rank
OF papal chamberlain we cannot saw
for certain but we can imagine that
are now being properly humbled ac-
count OF the ceremony they will
utter some healthy curses: "The
scene at the church was most beau
tiful. Assembled around the mag
nificent marble affairs were fully
fifty priests, attired in black cas-
sock and white surplice. The beau
tlful purple of the robes of Monsig-
nor Pagan and Monsignor Leach
and the bright hue of the purple
robes of the three bishops, stood out
in brilliant contrast against the
black of the priests, while the gold
vestments of the officers of the
mass blended well with the array of
color"
WELL, here is one ex-altar bow
" who would swap the whole cere-
mony for loaf of bread for a
hungry miners child. And those
who wish to protests against this
medieval hocus pocus, can do so in
no better way than by sending a
contribution to help the National
Miners Relief Committee, with head
quarters at Gil Penn Avenue, to
feed the victims of the coal oper-
ators in the great strike. Alfred
Wagenknecht, Relief Director, who
is neither priest nor bishop, will
see that the money is used for food
and not for incense or gold vest
ments.
MARCUS CARNEY would have his
AVA followers believe that Africa can
be redeemed for the black man with
the aid of Al Smith. Marcus knows
better, but like all leaders who in
the past as well as in the present
have utilized the sufferings of an
oppressed people to rise to power
and affluence, he is deliberately de-
ceiving the exploited and prosecuted
Negroes who have not yet seen
through his fraudulent pretensions.
No intelligent Negro worker will ex-
pect any help from the leader of the
lynching Democratic Party any more
than from the Republican Party
which permits the lynching of Ne
groes without protest. "a plague
on both Wall Street parties who
serve the exploiters of white and
black!" will be the answer of the
class conscious Negroes who have
learned that only through the pro-
gram of the Workers (Communist)
Party will the Negro masses be able
TO emancipate themselves in COM
non cause with their white brothers
and sisters.
AN Associated Press staff writer
n says that state department folk
ook at the "outlaw-war" planks in
he Democratic and Republican plat
'orms with wry faces. And we'll
hey might, because they only mean
more war. 1t is rumored in Wash
ngton that Kellogg intends to step
tut of his present berth as soon as
lie puts his fake anti-war treaty
,ver in Paris. Whether he does or
Tot will make no difference to the
colonial peoples and particularly to
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