The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-25
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hotchet Out
The Truth
o "TELLS PLENTY"
@ "SPLIT THE UNION"
o "BORE FROM WITHIN"
Q WELL, WHAT OF IT?"

Q "WELL, WHAT OF 1T?"
Communists Active in Labor Move
ment," says headlines on the Dies
House committee investigation.
"Well, what of it ?" some innocent
souls comment.
Just this: Communists in the labor
movement are an unmitigated nuisance.
This is putting it mildly.
An unmitigated nuisance can cover
lot of ground and that is exactly
what the Communist in the labor move
ment does.
Don't take our word for it; ask any
union man who has had to fight the
Communist borer; HE'LL TELL YOU
PLENTY.
Members of organized labor believe
in the rights guaranteed citizens by
Federal and state constitutions.
They believe that any person, men,
ber of a labor union or not, has a
right to any political, religious or eco
nomic faith.
They grant the right Of any trade
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ism.
They do NOT believe that Com
munist has right to make hell-rais-
ing his chief and sometimes only union
activity.
And hell-raising is the chief activity
of many Communist members, simply
because they put party loyalty above
union loyalty. Communist party 10y
atty means loyalty to "the revolution"
Putting detectives of ANY party
above union objectives invariably leads
to trouble in union.
x X
Up to few years ago, Communist
hell-raising in unions took the form of
outright attempts at union demoraliza-
ton and destruction.
Then the Reds fondly believed world
revolution was right around the corner
and could be hastened by destruction
of the labor movement, which they
knew was opposed to all their works.
SO they did their damndest to wreck
the unions.
International Ladies' Garment Work.
ers' Union had an experience with this
kind of Communist tactics it will long
remember.
Fanatical Communists split the I'M
ion for a time and it seemed headed
for destruction.
David Dubinsky and others fought
the Reds to standstill and in the end
pried loose the Communist grip of
death.
Edward F. McGrady was one of the
A. F. of l.. men who aided Dubinsky
in his winning fight.
About the same time John L. Lewis,
now having Communist trouble, was
fighting what he denounced as a Com
munist element in the United Mine
Workers. The Mine Workers barred
Communists from membership by con-
stitutional provision, which shows
what they thought of Communists.
x X X
Now the Reds pursue different tao
tics in the union. In Communist term
inology, they follow different "line"
They do not seek outright destruc-
ton, under the new 'line," which
comes straight from Moscow.
They "bore from within" with the
object Of bending union policy and ac-
ton to Communist purposes.
They drive non-Communist members
away from meetings by constant bick-
ering, fault finding and general noise.
They are strong on noise, everywhere.
BY packing small meetings, they Of
ten commit a union to a stand entire
ly foreign to the opinion of majority
of it's members.
A favorite stunt is to commit a un-
ion to a fervent denunciation of dicta-
torship in Italy and Germany. They
are careful that nary word is said
against dictatorship in Russia.
They inveigh against war and shout
for peace, but work to win American
aid for Russia in the event of what
they consider the inevitable clash be-
tween Communist Russia and Nazi
Germany.
They want America to side with one
dictatorship against another.
The barest outline of some Commun-
ist activity has been mentioned here.
Pages and pages could be devoted
to the subject.
People who are informed on what
the Communists have done and are do
ing, do not say, "Well, what of it,"
They know, as stated in the begin
ming, that Communists in the labor
movement are an unmitigated nuis-
ance.