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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JUNE 4. 1937. 8 who have seen fit to affiliate themselves with the C. I. 0. is hokum, I ed concerning what he thought would happen should unionism get pure and simple. The workers are flocking under the banner of the C. I. 0. because a little stronger. His plant has it is democratically formed as a workers own organization. In the A. been unionized for nearly ten F. of L. democracy is a stranger. It is undemocratically controlled by years. lie replied: d international union presidents and secretaries. (Continued from page 1) I do not believe that there are They Most of these new members of congress arc young, inspiringly carry the dictatorial policies of the A. F. of L. in their vest pockets, many people frightened as to what And just because of this there was a crying need for the C. I. 0. will happen to the country when young, because they are not set in the predatory mold of the old, corThis latest cry of Mr. Green should discredit him with all red- - unionism gets a little were but elected as were Democrats, they They stronger rupt political parties. liberty-lovin- g American working men and women. cause the large industries of the never Bourbons of the old school, and neither were they ever stand-pa- t country have already unionized Republicans of doctrinaire Socialists. They came from the economic the breakdown of the created by I political A ItOSE BY ANY OTHER NAME system, and they wear Democratic label because Roosevelt talked in matter of fact, I believe that economic terms. They were never trained, conditioned and hardened If you think the party labels i Washington lobbyists swarm like people are taking a great deal for in the ruthless schools of vicious political rings and party machines. with Democrat and Republican mean a I yellow-jacke- ts around a cider mill. I granted. We hear little of this They sailed into congress mostly on the Rooseveltian coat-tail- s, I even or the single still There thing, holy their youth unsullied, their natural integrity uncorrupted; believing every predatory power and I subject here. At the same time, I words New Deal, just follow the special interest group is in their ideals, and hopeful that they might play a part in building using organizers are very busy in the debates and voting records of sen- - every known means a better world. of influencing city organizing different groups of workers. These fledgling congressmen are not only inspiringly young, but ators and congressmen as reported legislators and legislation. in the Record. A daily rose by any other name Congressional People who do not wish to see pathetically untrained and unarmed for the part they seek to play. They You will soon learn there is that skunk-casmells of no dark as the know any sweet and dont their way about; they have readjustment of the rewards knowledge paths, Re- f and capital working labor Democratic, nothing black the slimy of the nothing the name other congressional smells and bage by any bogs dangerous - just as bad, so and Farmerhave some nervous aether no one of may g nothing all is The it them that about helps jungle. why worry tragedy Labor ahead. in that a names ? What is needed in congress days However, we do not either, for to find themselves. It is a sorrow to liberals that Senator Rush Holt matter, twobelieve A sense. that committed a political suicide and is lost to the progressive movement purely political many of them will lose right now is the right sort of men because no individual or progressive group recognized liis youth and Party system functions in Wash- - who know what it is all about, any meals, be deprived of many cM-hcor usual pleasures, inexperience and gave him a helping hand through the danger period Wffton like clockwork, and no one kept in the right path by well or- W1th n be readjustment some of in Washington. There are several more young Holts blindly stumbling ordinary common sense has ganized groups of farmers and about the halls of congress, just as bewildered as he, and they too any illusions that the two parties I workers who know what they want, us including the writer must part will be lost to the progressive movement if something is -not done by , are, anything else than progressive and dont give a tinkers dam for with some of our income in the interest of a fairer distribution of anl reactionary. those older and wiser to help them find themselves. party labels. the good of our income of life, then Th reactionary party speaks Earnest, confident, sincere and naive, these tyro congressmen , we will try to remember, We cant poured into Washington intent on making their concepts of the ideals for the haves and the progressive NEWS COMMENT us anyhow. with take it of the New Deal real. Before they knew what was happening they were party speaks for the have nots1 as But for the future holding lost in the jungle, easy prey for the old gray wolves of predatory power. and the party labels used on the. of the Amerifrom (Continued any upset 1) startling Page . , They lacked the instinct to hunt with the pack, to find strength and ballots mean less than nothing. Somewhere protection in the group, and if they had understood group power, there Some Democrats and some Re-- 1 0r bear(I f a we recall having read exta initiative, ability and effort university professor is no organized group of liberals and progressives to receive, to protect publicans are liberal and progres- n0ears Thase presensive to the core, and others wearing "ho picked .up a coal black aban and train them for their duties. doned baby in Africa. He brought tinf? labor today are for the most There are fewer old guard politicians and more instinctively pro- the same party labels are as ifc to this Canute country. Under advanc- - Part American trained. They are gressive members of congress today than ever before. Yet, unless some wyho Wedlo as old ed They have the child took away intelligently selfish heroic work is done in organizing and consolidating progressive sentisweep back 'theTea Jithletic mistakes see made in to the and scholastic honors in eyes a broom And tn ment into action, this session of congress will go down in history as no least At school net and college. foreign Uto- Europe. hirt elected' under messy, futile and ineffectual in the face of grave danger. More than of them has no There is some blue doubt many Th pia yet tempted that be lacking three months have passed, and it has not met frankly and courageously I aSIC shores to our leave But inherited. art fundamentals? nenc'? or in backbone. one single issue. . it is still inexplicable how the Rob-- , We are sure that a clear working majority of the members of . a roll-cafbe ll vote ert Burnses, Abe Lincolns and When you cant change people a?aIysis congress want action, and on general principles they are in agreement, is illuminating, and pretty definite- - Horace Greeleys, and the from conditions, try changing your yet the old gray wolves are blocking action, and the liberals are bleating ly pins the real label on congress-- 1 uncultivated sod. spring You may be surprisdisposition. in a fog of futility. The desire for the organization and con men. Two states recently cast 100 helplessly ed at the result on conditions and solidation of liberal forces grows, but much more anc people. More Curious Than Afraid v.es f?r.th! comHnuf'n"3 dynamic leadership is needed. .1 jn school we were states as a . r7.7 taught -i We are hopeful, for the dim outlines of a real coordination of the j ignore! Ignore to Ignore, definition life: ??hd,,.old of ignore, Adaptibility liberal and progressive forces in congress are beginning to take shape, and South Carolina, environment. conditions those you can- Some unhappy people are according to reports of the Utah Labor News observer. Every day But we wonder whether it was the They realize not cure. Snub them. Look to some new congressman who was only a name and an unknown quantity Democratic party that voted to frightened today. in a world of that brand new, unsullied are that living sniffs the wind and edges over toward the progressive camp. Earnest, that certain Democratic suddentheychanges. They fear lest row. Plan for it and you may sincere, courageous, yet modest and willing to be counseled by older legislation or the great hydro- always they may not successfully adapt build in it. The sun is and more experienced liberals in congress, the young congressmen electric and tobacco not somewhere. If in shining to these themselves corporations, changes, from out of the west seem to be gathering the progressive forces into other states almost matched Others are more curious than day, then in tomorrow. what promises to be a real progressive bloc in Washington. record, Republican New Jersey afraid. Possiblv these have weath-- l More power to their elbows, and may Allah preserve theml and Massachusetts. What state had ered several Is this day partly spoiled? Use changes already. A But the people back home must remember that building a pro the best record, Wisconsin ? Wrong, remainder in preparation that its of a president gressive bloc in congress is their job also. A.progressive bloc in Wash Guess again. Minnesota? No, I corporation was recently question-- 1 will make tomorrow longer. ington can not be builded without a solidly organized and articulate Jim Hills railroad and the milling body of public opinion at home. Your congressman is your servant, corporations still have a toehold your voice and your will. He will be as honest and as progressive as there, so it had three black eyes. you demand that he shall be, or as venal and reactionary as the powers Washington? No. Two of its that be will try to make him. Dont merely elect your congressman youngest progressives either did and toss him to the wolves. Accept your share of the responsibility. not know what it was all about, Stand back of him when he is right, and land on him like a hen on a or they lacked courage and are registered as not voting. From a party Junebug when he is wrong. . angle you would never guess. It was Arkansas, which certainly is B0TK0AL I high-salarie- nd b- by-wa- ys heart-breakin- s I I I I and J2, clear-thinki- ng iS t it tomor-siaught- to-T- three-million-doll- BILL GREEN AND COMMUNISM not a progressive state by any means, but there are not so many great corporations to be considered William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and her congressmen really voted can be placed in the same category with fascists and other subversive Democratic. interests who are opposed to organization of working men and women The supreme court issue and the of America. Bill has joined these special interests in accusing of com- relief bills are widening the lines munism all those labor leaders and trade unionists who do not agree in of cleavage and clarify issues, and all things with the executive council of the A. F. of L. Bill is sore at John L. Lewis and at all other unionists who are in keep up the good work of separating the sheep from the goats. sympathy with the organization activities of the Committee for In Every parliamentary move in the dustrial Organization. This is evident. And when he does not find old wolves gray any other fault against those who believe in giving an opportunity for will be used to bag of tricks prevent these all unorganized workers to join a labor union, he makes the charge measures coming to roll call, votes. of communism. In his recent radio address Green made the claim that the com 'Jnly if us people back home turn munist party of the United States is deliberately and militantly sup- on the heat will a lot of Democrats be compelled to go on record. porting the C. I. 0. According to Bill it means carrying on communist The new political alignments revolutionary propaganda and class struggle methods for the overthrow are taking shape because capitalof existing American institutions and the inauguration of the dicta ism has about finished the job of torship of the proletariat. We call this, Bill Greens latest cry, only mere peanut labor dividing the American people into wo distinct groups the haves d politics in behalf of artists of the A. F. of L. executive and have-notIn any political council. democracy We know, and every intelligent trade unionist knows, that this clearly defined groups build political parties to serve waving of red flag at this time is the same old punk that has been go- will heir ends. on the class of this country for the past several among privileged ing We cannot get excited about years, and that Bill Green evidently has become the red scare spokesa new party under any sort of man for this class. If we have a few communists among the working people in this name because party labels have country they are the product of the extremely autocratic and reaction- come to mean nothing. King and ary tactics of Mr. Green and his associates on the A, F. of L. executive homas of Utah are both labelled council. )emocrat, but there is no more in In this age of organization and collectivism workers have been de- common between them than besirous of joining labor organizations in their respective industries, tween Kramer of California and but the barrier in their becoming members of the American labor move- Bigelow of Ohio, who are also ment was the big boys of the A. F. of L. The only course for these or- abelled Democrats. Farmers and industrial workers ganization conscious workers was to join something. In their hunger for organization they joined any working class organization that was must make common cause politiwilling to admit them. cally, but we cant see what differYou could not blame them for joining something, because the A. F. ence it makes what label of L. doors were closed to them. But when it comes down to real facts hey use. Its not theparty name but there are only a few communistically inclined working men and women he men the voters send to con- -, in the United States. The number is negligible. rress, and the organized, articulate The vast majority of the American workers, organized or unor- jrogressive groups at home to ganized, are devoted to the protection and preservation of the common ceep them in line that count. heritage of freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There are groups in The working men and women are believers in the democratic form every state toprogressive elect the right men of government. Democracy has been instilled into them from child- ;o congress and keep them in line hood, and you cant take it away from them. Therefore this latest after This is abthere. they get cry of communist against the liberty loving workers of America solutely in because necessary pie-car- s. ar er |