The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1926, Page 7

Lt) (a 2 Buyin o> THE DAILY WORKER. cs ALEX. BITTELMAN, Editor. Second Section: This Magazine Section Appea rs Every Saturday In The DAILY WORKER. By K. A. Suvanto eee march of progress in the Amer ican trade unions cannot be stopped. This is clearly evidenced by the newer and fresher winds that are beginning to blow in the movement, The reap pearance of a powerful progressive op» position to the Lewis machine in the miners’ union; the Passaic strike with its reverberations thru the tex- tile mills and other industries in the sensational rocket of senatorial slush fund flared up for a minute on the columns of the capitalist press and died away, Why is it? It is still news, altho not new in the practices of capitalist politics. But the capitalist press does not en- joy the idea of dwelling upon this un» savory subject too long, The labor press, however, cannot afford the lux- ury of forgetting about it, The fact that our legislators and executives are being bought and paid for by the rich and wealthy; the fact that reactionary labor officials are participating in this game and are committing the labor movement to the support of paid agents of capitalist corporations must not only be brought to the attention of the workers again and again, but @ determined effort must be made to SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1926. The Real Labo east; the great struggle and growth of the left wing in the garment trades. And the general spirit of vigor and militancy that ts beginning to make ita way in various sections of the labor movement—all this points to the fact that despite all obstruction by the re actionaries the American trade unions are making progress, Tm celebrating Labor Day this year ‘What's Become of the Slush Fund Ba. note should be taicn ol-the fact that the slogans and policies of the left wing are gaining a foothold among ever larger sections of American la bor. The demands for the organiza- tiom of the unorganized, for militant struggles against the employers, for driving corrupt labor fakers out of the mevement, for amalgamation, for democratizing the trade unions, for a labor party, etc—all these demands of the rank and file can no longer be crushed or evan suppressed by the re- actionaries, ) omitted i= Our trade unions are making jrog+ ress despite Green, Lewis and Farring- ton. What ig needed is more class consciousness, more militancy, and more action by the left and progress- ive elements. By Robert Minor Investigation break once and for all the alliance be tween labor officials and capitalist! pok In the Next Issue “The Messiahs and Othe Fakirs,” by W. Pickens, A humorous little item on the mission of Jiddu KrishnamurtL “The British Coaldiggers.” A letter from a British coal miner on how the great strwegle is going on. “Religion tn Literature,” the third article of V. F, Calverton’s series on Labor and Literatura, “Ethyl Is Back,” by N. Sparks. A splendid article of a popular scientifio natura dealing with the evil effects of the popular gas “ethyl” upon the workers employed In Its production, Barbusse’s first article on the White Terror In the Balkan states, And many other features,