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FRIDAY, APRIL 26,1929
THAT RED INTER-RACIAL
DANCE
The New Leader allows itself to
blow up quite a frenzy over a story
carried by International Labor News
Service to its client papers, of which
this paper is one, regarding an inter
racial dance held in Chicago as a part
of the communist propaganda in that
city. The New Leader is a New York
socialist party organ. It concludes
by demanding that Joseph A. Wise
in charge of the ILNS bureau in Chi
cago, be "fired."
Of course Joseph A. Wise, a vet
eran trade unionist, will not be "fired
by International Labor News Serv
ice. This trade union organization
does not take orders from the social
ist weekly, nor does it seek advice
from that quarter, any more than it
does from the Daily Worker, com
munist organ, which likewise fulmi
nated over the story.
The New Leader thinks this story
was contrary to the policy laid down
by the American Federation of Labor
in bringing the sleeping car porters
into membership. This happens not
to be the case.
The inter-racial dance in Chicago
was a part of a despicable propa
ganda to play up race feeling in such
a manner as to promote revolution
against the United States, against
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The Chicago Tribune, which labor
rightly does not love, announces that
it has closed its neyrs bureau in So
viet Rusia, because "if an American
correspondent expects any privileges
from the government he must cable
thousands of words of soviet propa
ganda to his paper." It is clear that
newspaper correspondents in the land
of the Soviets, as in Italy under Mus
solini, are used as far as possible
to further the ends of the dictators
There is no such thing as free re
porting. Why should not dvery Amer
ican newspaper and press association
refuse to maintain representatives in
those countries until those represen-
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the trade union movement and every
democratic institution we have. That
is one thing—unity under one trade
union banner comes pretty near be
ing the opposite.
What the communists have done in
Chicago and plan to do again is a
miserable betrayal of black and white
alike, leading both to false conclu
sions, false emotions and treacher
ous, treasonable action if possible.
It may require some courage, in
the face of dopey sentimental ism
that seems to crop out on every pre
text, to print news such as this, but
it is and must be the purpose of any
trade union news service to print
truth when it affects the labor move
ment. The American Federation of
Labor's fine policy with regard to
solidarity under one banner on the
economic field is one thing the policy
of the communists is something en
tirely different and something so com
pletely discreditable that it is diffi
cult to see how even the moribund
socialist party could attempt an apol
ogy. The communist aim is for re
bellion, and its miserable effort to use
the negro in furthering that policy
is filled with danger for all races.
Ml
tatives are absoluely free to write
and cable whatever they want to
write or cable? Why carry on this
farce of reporting propaganda as if
it were news?
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The A. F. of L. Weekly News Serv
ice gives a brief summary of impor
tant matters affecting labor, occur
ring in the industrial, legislative and
judicial fields, and such other infor
mation that will benefit the trade
union movement.
Only true blue and bona-flde labor
papers receive this service.
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TERM "AMERICAN" DEGRADED
The term "American," as used by
anti-union employers, degrades an
ideal for which men have offered
their lives, declared Harold J. Boyd,
county commander Veterans of For
eign Wars, in an address to the State
Building Trades Council convention.
Mr. Boyd is the first to reproach
cheap wage employers for calling
their anti-union movement the
"American plan."
"There are those who dare to dese
crate the word 'America' by coupling
it with a plan that has as its object
ive the desruction of the very prin
ciples and ideals that our comrades
have defended with their lives," said
Commander Boyd. "I refer to those
enemies of yours and of ours who spon
soi that which in their infamous pre
sumption they have dared to style the
'American plan.'
"There are laws which protect the
flag of our country from misuse
these should be laws which would
protect the word that the flag sym
bolizes—the word American—from
treasonable abuse.
"We demand that there shall be but
one law for rich and poor alike, that
might shall not make right, and that
the rights of labor, in collective bar
gaining and in all other things, shall
not be over-shadowed by the power
of wealth, nor rank, nor station.'
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CONGRESS CONVENES
The special session of congress,
called by the president to consider
farm relief and tariff changes, con
vened April 15.
The administration favors a short
session, which will confine its activi
ties to the consideration of the two
issues. The minority party, supported
by a group of progressives in the
majority party ,oppose what they tie
dare is an attempt to "straight
jacket" congress by confining the law
makers to a set program. Under the
constitution, congress can consider
any question it sees fit, and can stay
in session all summer if so disposed
Other major issues that are being
urged include the census bill, prohi
bition, the federal reserve board
stock market speculation, repeal of
the national origins provisions of the
immigration law, reapportionment of
the members of congress according to
the census, which has been ignored
for years, and other highly contro
versial questions.
Social legislation will be urged by
organized labor if congress considers
other questions than the tariff and
farm relief.
The equalization clause of the farm
relief bill seems to be doomed, as it
is rejected by many former advo
cates. Two plans are now proposed
a revolving fund of $500,000,000 to
aid farmers in marketing crops and
the debenture plan. The latter pro
posal would give to the shipper of a
surplus crop a certificate equivalent
to the market price, on a bushel of
wheat, for example, and what that
price would be if it had the benefit of
the tariff, which would be 42 cents a
bushel in the case of wheat. These
debentures could be sold to importers
to pay tariff charges on goods im
ported. This plan is used in Germany
and other European countries.
If congress runs to form in this
special session, very little can be ex
pected by labor or the farmers. After
the adjournment both will perhaps
find that nothing has been done and
the matter will likely be considered
at the next session.
"REDS** DON'T WANT PEACE
A representative of the United
States department of labor reports
that he can make no headway in ad
justing the Gastonia (N. C.) textile
strike because communists are in con
trol.
A well-known revolutionist, who
was active in the Passaic strike, is
"standing in the way."
This man "is utterly opposed to
negotiating an agreement and makes
all sorts of fantastic demands," says
the federal conciliator.
The "reds'' are running
form.
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Peace is no part of the commun
ists' philosophy or tactics. They fo
ment revolution. In every strike they
would wrest control from the regular
trade union that they may have a
clear field to inculcate class hate and
revolutionary discipline.
This hate and discipline will be
capitalized by the select few when
"the day" arrives.
Communists are not interested in
better working conditions. Where
they make this plea it is but stage
scenery to secure a foothold. They
are more useful to employers than
gunmen and spies.
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KEEP LABOR ON THE AIR
Right-minded citizens should assist
organized labor to secure a free, 24
hour broadcast channel for Station
WCFL, Chicago, from the federal
radio commission.
There are but 90 of these channels,
and the unionists ask that one be
allocated to wage workers and the
farmers.
Under the law licenses shall be
given "in the public interest, conve
nience and necessity."
The workers' cause is all of these.
The message they put on the air is
of more importance than jazz and ad
vertisements for washing compounds.
The trade union movement is woven
into our social, economic and political
life. It can not, with justice, be
crowded off the air by stations that
fail to justify their existence from
the standpoint of "public interest,
convenience and necessity."
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PENSION CUTS
The Carnegie pension fund for
teachers is bankrupt through the "ex
traordinary ineptitude" of the man
agement, asserted Monell Sayre, ex
ecutive vice president of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church pension fund, in
an address to churchmen in Colum
bus, Ohio.
Newspapers announce that the Car
negie Foundation will reduce its pen
sions to retired educators.
This is the second time that the
fund repudiated its promises to teach
ers, said Mr. Sayre.
The fund was started a quarter of
a century ago by Andrew Carnegie
with a gift of $10,000,000.
The retired teachers should call
their union into extra session and
under the head of unfinished busi
ness, appoint a committee to look up
another Carnegie angel.
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'T' Where with our
1 Little Hatrhet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
A scientist has invented what is
called an electric brain. Its opera
tions are almost uncanny. Strips of
paper are fed into it and the most
complicated calculations emerge, all
absolutely accurate. The electric
brain was created for the express pur
pose of making the involved calcula
tions in a great research problem
The purpose was to have machinery
take the place of the human brain
so as to make mistakes impossible
The electrical brain never makes a
mistake.
It is wrong to say that mechanical
devices are gradually taking the place
of men. There is nothing gradual
about it. Machines are taking the
place of men with a rush and a sweep
—an avalanche!
Men make these marvelous things
and then the men that make them are
replaced by the things they have
made. First, the intelligence to make
the machines then the stupidity in
allowing the machine to take away
the livelihood of the makers. Was
ever anything like it in the world?
We dodder along talking about the
six-hour day. We shall have to talk
about the six-hour day a long time
before it becomes anything like uni
versal. And by that time there will
be the need, in advanced centers, for
something more like a two-hour day
For we have in this broad country
that amazing thing, the whole parade
from jungle to the utmost of modern
ity.
We have the ox and the crude tools
of the frontier, we have the magnifi
cent machinery of the complicated
plants that run almost without the aid
of a man—great generating plants
that make and start electricity on its
way with almost complete automatic
operation, great factories that start
with raw material and turn finished
products out on the loading platform,
with men merely on guard here and
there to see that the mechanical au
tomatons keep running as they should.
We have the prow of the parade
away up front, the cumbersome and
bulky rear still back in the eighties.
Some men, seeing what lies ahead,
try, to crowd and drag and urge the
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rest of the parade along, trying to
bring the rear up to the front. Oth
ers, complacent, assured and partly
blind, try to hold the head back
where the bulk is, thus creating traf
fic congestion, in a way of putting
it, gumming things up.
Thus far, in spite of bothr these ef
forts, the race has dogged along,
fumbling, groping, getting some
where because there was no other
place to go, having, all in all, little to
say about where it went, or why.
A few men, engaged in resaerch,
invention, application, are today
marking out a path that the race must
follow, whether or not it wants to
follow.
When Henry Ford and a few others
started making automobiles they
changed the course of all life. They
weren't thinking about doing that,
but they did it. The rest have fol
lowed that change, having had noth
ing to say about it, but knowing, or
feeling that it was good. And it is
good. Now the airplane comes zoom
ing along. The first real flash of what
it means may be in the Ford an
nouncement of a $10,000 price cut in
his planes. Visualize what that sin
gle act^may mean!
Man constantly has less work to do
for the production of things that
sustain life. That is good, for work
of itself is not vrhat life is for.
But we must not have machines
that make some fiat, while others are
starved.
The electrical brain will do won
drous things, but it will not think.
It will not help us find out how to
get rid of burdensome work, though
it will minimize a lot of hard work.
We, the rank and file of the human
race, will have to think out our own
way to freedom—and we had better
be doing some of that thinking!!!
ADMINISTRATION
CRITICIZED
For the third time Chief Justic
Taft has severely criticized the ad
ministration of criminal law in thi
country. He declares that it is "di:
graceful" and the inability of poli
and courts to check crime has result
ed in a "crisis" of disrespect and lav
lessness.
Mr. Taft also criticizes our jur\
system, and intimates that it is break
ing down. Recent notorious casi
seem to substantiate this statement
As a general thing the trouble lit
in rule of procedure made by sta1
legislators. Judges are often hand
capped by these rules or statute
their hands are tied or their mouth
closed by an inflexible and silly rul
For some time cities $nd states ai
bar associations have been conductir u
independent "crime surveys" but th
disease seems to extend to federal a
well as local courts. In view of th
changed conditions in all lines, i
eems to be necessary to revamp the
business of dispensing justice—and
this question needs the earnest atten
tion of our statesmen.
UNIONS SEEK
DATA ON BAR
RING OF WORK­
ERS OVER 45
Three hundred and fifty western
Massachusetts trade unions are en
gaged in making a survey to deter
mine how many industrial concerns
in their area are barring from em
ployment as new workers men over
45 years old, and to establish reasons
for this course where it exists.
The survey is being made, accord
ng to a statement by J. F. Gatelee,
vice president of the Massachusetts
State Federation of Labor, to furnish
basis for remedial action by the
federation if the reported condition
found to prevail.
It will particularly be ascertained
whether age limits have been set up
avoid higher premiums on group
insurance.
POOR EYESIGHT
Is Rule With One-half
Workers
Jersey City, N. J.—"One out of
every two workmen cannot see clearly
what he is doing," said Lewis
Carris, of the National Society for
the Prevention of 'Blindness, in an ad
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