The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-20
By JOSEPH COHEN.

BY JOSEPH COHEN.
The propaganda literature of the
bourgeoisie, in spite of all the high
flown phrases which occur so fire.
quently in it, is characterized by one
common feature: its official op-
position to the idea of the class
struggle.
For a long time, an intensive
process of organization has been in
progress among til e employers.
Countless militant organizations,
bearing purely bourgeois class
character, have come into existence.
The work done by these organiz-
ations makes it clear that, as mat
ter of fact, the bourgeoisie is quite
convinced of the reality of class
struggle.
The common name by which these
employers organizations are known
is Employers Associations. BY this
time, they have become a powerful
factor in American life, thanks to
their energetic activity in all phases
of the struggle between Capital and
Labor. One can hardly find a single
woe of the laborer which is not con-
nected in one way or another, with
the bosses association.
The epidemic of injunctions, ar
rests, lock-outs, provocations, es-
pionage, scabbing, and other "bless-
ings of democracy" of this sort,
with which the worker is so gener-
ously showered by bourgeois Gust
ice"-all this work is now either car
ried on directly thru the bosses or
CARNATIONS, or indirectly encour-
aged and influenced by their propa-
ganda.
The shameful part they play in
brutal strike-breaking; their various
campaigns against the workers;
their covert work of gradually de-
priving the laborer of his last ele-
mentary right, the right to fight
for few cents more in return for
his hard toil-all this makes the
bosses associations a sort of head
quarters for our enemy-Capital.
W. must know the enemy, if W.
are to oppose him effectively!
AS an illustration of the import
ance which the capitalists attach to
the bosses associations. we may
quote the words of Professor Clar-
ence Bonnet, one of the greatest
bourgeois authorities on these ques-
lions. In the introduction to his
exhaustive treatise on the subject,
Professor Bennett views with
alarm" the following facts:
"There are more than 100000
organized laborers in the United
States. What is to prevent them
from gaining control of the govern
ment and the industries of the land,
should they decide to carry out such
a program! Is there no concentrated
power to oppose this movement, once
it started ?"
But the troubles of the bourgeois
savant are dissipated as soon as he
discovers the '"open sesame" that
priceless means of salvation, which
has been created, of, by and for
Capital, lie. the bosses association.
He goes on to say:
"That an opposing movement OF
this sort exists and is rapidly grow
ing is one of the facts considered
in the following pages" (Referring
to his aforementioned book.)
The worthy professor, of course,
is here carried little too far by his
enthusiasm. 1t is quite clear to any
Marxist that it is as impossible to
preserve and perpetuate the existing
order az :: is to arrest the mighty,
mechanism of mans
history; as it was impossible, for
example, to perpetuate the slave
system of ancient Rome; or the
patriarchal system. But we shall
have occasion to consider these ques-
lions later. One thing is certain:
meanwhile, if only temporarily, the
employers organizations can and
do help increase the power of cap
ital and Cypress the laborer.
NOTE: At the time that Bennett
was concluding his investigation OF