The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-17
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Not Exactly a Good Record

Dor Record" which announces as if it we're not
something to be ashamed of before workers, that
it is Supporting Policies Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor" has done "Red Sparks" the
honor Of devoting the whole front page to us
on February 10. We now reply to the favor in
kind
We gather that the editor don't like us In
fact he refers in a most disparaging way to
"Red Jorge" We are called a Soviet agent,
and it is alleged that we are rearing our in
sdious head among the wage earners of this
country" 1t is further recommended that we
'be driven across the Atlantic clear to the Land
of the Soviets'" Which would cimply tickle us
to death.
1t seems that our broadcasting. like that Of
some unidentified Soviet station" (Which is al
legged to have mixed up the Holy Fathers"
Latin speech, though why it Should be rendered
any more unintelligible than Latin we fail to
See), interfered with the Pollyana propaganda Of
the Labor Record"
More definitely, what the illiterate editor Of
the Labor Record" calls our ''degradatory" re-
marks anent the blessings conferred by catholic
priests in New York on automobiles parked along
the street, is used subject to divert the minds
of any worker Stupil enough to believe the La
Dor Record" from more serious affairs of the
labor movement which that AFL paper wished
thus to cover up. Therefore, the whole front
page is devoted to an editorial entitled: "The
Red Strikes Blow Beneath the Belt" And we
are to be driven across the Atlantic" and so
forth
Evidently this is altogether too blessed and
sweet country for us to live in Unfortunately
for the pleasant theory, however, one has only
to turn to page 2 of the same edition of the
Labor Record" to be disillusioned There are
10 stories on page 2, and the subjects dealt with
are as follows 5rss5
/. Drastic Rate Cut Hits Navy Yard Work
ers" But the editor don't say for them to hit
back. Only an "insidious9 guy like us would do
that
2. divorce story about an ''ungrateful count
ess" Nuf sed!
3. A New Orleans dispatch that workers of
the American Sugar Refinery there have had
their wages cut So week The 'Labord Record"
has no comment, no advice, and the A. F.. of L.
has mo strike policy.
4. The editor seems tickled over the OK the
Davis Wage Bill" got in a Senate Committee,
the bill providing prevailing wages" for govern
ment work. prevailing wages are not union
wages, but both Bill Green and the Labor Rec
ord" appear vastly pleased.
5. An item says the carpet workers are being
'reorganized" in Philadelphia The editor gives
no opinion of why or for what they should or
ganize SO we presume that whatever their de-
sires may be- the A. F. of L. is organizing them
to sell them out as it did at Danvile
6. A prominent place is giyenla picture of a
starving farmers family in Arkansas No. not in
the Soviet Union Toiling farmers there don't
starve. That is reserved now for freeborn Amer
leans.
z. 1.-THE Boston Typo, Union Aids Idle Mem
bers." Why they should aid idle" people is a
mystery. That, as Bill Green knows, is one of
those horrible things called "a dole" But it
Ill.
employed printers cough up that cash than that
corporations be taxed and war funds given to
Unemployment Insurance
8. Immigration Drops" But IN spite of 1t so
do wages and so does employment though the
"Labor Record" don't mention these latter facts
in that connection.
9. We are told that Kansas farmers are paid
IL cents dozen for eggs, the lowest price since
1886. The Labor Record" says not word about
it. but Philadelphia workers who try to buy eggs
are not paying 1886 prices,
10. 1880 Construction Slips TO New Low Lev
ell" Cheering news, Ell? But construction in
the Soviet Union is beating all records though
the Labor Record is mum as a clam about
that
H. 1t is told that the" cold storage and
fresh egg acts" are beipg Violated wholesale in
Harrisburg. Pa. We can well believe it, but
we don't see v''v we should therefore sing the
Star Spanglcd sanner
II. In Massachusetts,, we're told "The slump
Fails to Cut Prison Labor Profits" Yes, boys,
it's sad, but only in the Soviet Union are pris-
oners paid union wages
10. Church Groups Seek Mooney Freedom"
Well, they've been seeking it without finding it
for long time. And the A. F. of l.. has not
even done that, as Mooney himself declares.
Mooney actually says that:
Mooney was saved from the hangnan's moose
only through the mass protests and pressure
Of Russia and the rest Of the world The case
has always been and must always be vital
part of the general struggle between the workers
and employers"
And the effort OF. the Labor Record" to make
1t the business of the churches and not the
business of the working class. is typical of the
A. F. Of l.. leadership, the function of which
Tom Mooney says: asa
g. is to fool the workers and make them
amenable to the employers"
And precisely that is the reason for the La
Dor Record" Of PHILADELPHIA in snlattering its
editorial-''Toe Red Strikes Pillow Beneath the
Palt." over its front naoe. Py this we NAV again
be doing So witt, the 'T erc~ pa-o-I" e-'to~ Tn
fact, it is doubtful whether there is any place
else to strike.
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