The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-02
Pure Fake

Onoer Cle neaonneS Green Asks Aid fog Eight
Million"-and Labor Chief Says Government
Must Provide Food and Clothing the capitalist
press plays up" the speech Of Bill Green, wesi-
dent OF the A. F. OF L., made at the convention
OF the United Mine Workers of America
The United Press version of this event. dated
January 26, winds up by saying:
international officers of the union agreed
with Green by adopting resolution urging fed
eral control of the bituminous industry and i'm
mediate adoption of the six hour day and the
five day week.
Just how the UNIV. officials agreed with
Green, who, remember, said that government
must provide food and clothing, by resolution
urging federal control" of coal mining and g.
shorter work day and week, is not clear because
one has nothing to do with the other
We, being suspicious cusses, opine that it was
intended not to be clear. We have in mind the
fact that Bill Green is rather frequently inyited
to the White House 'for breakfast, and if he
has demands regarding relief to the UNEMPLOYED
he has ample influence and an inside track TO
the councils of the capitalists and could easily
get something done.
instead however, of doing this, Green gall
wants out to Indianapolis and makes a speech
that clearly is aimed at making the workers be-
Ieve he is fighting the government for flood
and clothing" for the unemployed-whereas the
TACT is that he is doing nothing of the sort.
But the fake doesn't end there. The officials
OF the UNIV. of A. also find It necessary, be-
cause Of the militant mood Of the workers, to
pretend that they, too are demanding" some
thing. So they "agree with Green, as the United
Press puts it, by urging" something; to be ex-
act, two things.
First federal control" of coal mining: second
the six-hour, five-day week The first urge, is,
If made with serious intent as fighting issue
(Which we doubt aimed at in order to get gov
eminent control of the miners, rather than gov
eminent control of the mines. BY government
control" the u. M. w. of A. hopes to become the
officially established "unon" its officials acting
as servants Of the government as well as Of the
operators; in short, as a fascist union" to pre-
vent the growth of the National Miners Union
and thus be able to betray the miners without
opposition
The second urge, the six-hour five-day week,
is precisely the same character as Green's de
mand" for food and clothing for the unem-
ployed. Green makes no fight, and bitterly op-
poses the fight that Is being made by the work
ers in their unemployed councils for this food
and clothing.
Likewise, the q. M. w. of A. makes no fight
for the six-hour day and five-day week but on
the contrary the u M w. of A. officials oppose
the only miners union, the National Miners
Union, thot does raise this demand as an issue
seriously to struggle for.
Workers should learn to recognize the dena-
gogy Of these takers for what 1t is And workers
should keep such instances in mind to silence
DIRECTORS who, having been the victims OF anti
working class propaganda disguised as liberal
opinion, advance the curious protest that we
Communists too violent" when we call these
A. F. of L. leaders takers" and fascist scoun-
drels'.
You might be interested in konwing that,
that peaceful lady, Miss Wooley, who has Just
gone across the water to put over the peace
smoke screen was a member during the last
slaughter. on the Committee Of Patriotic Edu-
cation. 1t subscribed to the following: ITO carry
to the remotest regions Of this country the mes
sage Of the necessity for this war and the peril
Of premature peace"