| Show I TWO TWO EDITORIALS S r t. t In the theR Headers aders Digest for June Jun 1943 appear appear two editorials editorials' one one commendatory and the other in in condemnation The rhe first is about the Typographical Union the thela la or union to which most linotype operators in cities of size belong to ton purely toa purely a democratic union nion fr free e from N r ref refusing sing the taint of of- CIO or of and the second the squabble in in shipyards between be- be tween various unions fighting for jurisdiction dela delaying de de- la laying laring ing the output of ships even in in war ar Y w. w while Jet t t lists th the made fork work the on s the abuse under that system 1 r T J c of d lri ri f ft t e The Typographical Union raises no hell on the issue Capitalism vs Labor Labor- It jt- jt knows that before a can get a a job some dirty contemptible bloated member of the Sixty Families must havea have bought a a linotype a small smaIl fortune in itself housed it at another investment and then set the linot linotype Ype operator at work It recognizes capital no hatred no bitterness Capital to them is necessary But the other unions union's most of them them one one long lorig ng c continual howl against capital All AIl cap capital tal is is bad all U greed all dishon dishonesty sty i it i t The Typographical Union prints its receipts and disbursements openly has an auditor check chec them t then publishes them Compare this this' with the complaints complaints com corn plaints registered all the time that with the other unions no one knows how the money is is used except except ex- ex c pt the flagrant instance of a contribution of toward a campaign fund and the heads of those unions bosses in the worst sense of that term One instance is g C a union man ian i is s quoted a as assaying saying We fought like hell to get this and were we're not going to give it up Y Yes s nd tJ t no hold what thy they've a e ve got those bh men i ert in v e to fight like h hell ll in terms of actual work in terms of ship in terms of railroad lo to fight against the foe of Nazi ism and fig fight t hard har to uphold P d th the e. e ve verv fo which hiS the they are are arp combating This war var is isla la labors labor's light just jusTas as mJ much if not 1 more 1 re than c capitals capital's P ital l s. s If 1 France for us If lost France for labor conscripted conscripted conscripted con con- scripted wages as slaves Why cant can't they see it D Ds If this were ere y a capitalistic war warr then we should s say sax To hell with capital let em fight for themselves them them- se selves ves and lie down on the job within un union union- on rules But it is a Labor war Labor is fighting for it it ii- self Labor will win it or lose it it the air plane crew would look fin fine l f facing a Me or f Z Zero to to tod d delay ay refuse toJi lit l t use e of jurisdictional onal qI rows a as to who should fire a a burst or flip a rudd rudder t. t Yet ryet et put the same conditions in a shipyard and when we want ships and want them badly then row delay delay delay de de- de- de lay throw a monkey wrench v into production while v the right kid of labor is got to drive a rivet tIt CIt It seems so very simple to us a iz d war it if will be w won n as much by machines as b by Y men tanks airplanes ships yet et labor is the only for fore forpe e that that can can produce those tanks airplanes or ships Capital Capital and and government which is itself mon mo mo- n nefY ej y actuated taxes f funds capital itself can not WID win the fight labor dabor must labor And in inthe the final ari I lysis is fighting for labor its rights its own privileges privileges e l just justas as much as capital is fighting for itself itselL How How Hitler must laugh |
