The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1926, Page 11

His feeling toward such was génerous.” Bab- of fis one-time attitude toward the injunction Vidginta mine owners got to stop support to Junftion, he said, “that restrains me from fur- ood to hungry men, women and children, when ‘My possession the means to aid them, be by me until the necessity has been removed ‘rporeal power of the court overwhelms me, I t it as I would an Ofder of the court to stop g.” : uis has been recovered from by Mr. Wilson & with his days of poverty as an immigrant ‘nd union man, As a congressman and member xecutive arm of the government he has quite inions, or at least his action and philosophy y contrary. er to prove to the capitalists that William B: ga valuable servant of their interests, Babson s book. “My object,” he saya, “is to give manu- s, merchants and other employers a correct the’ Department of Labor and ifs work. The of the Department of Labor can never be un- Proree by knowing the man who constructed icies.”” a then g0e€s on teway: , ‘en ver known an instance where employers en \ tter off by not taking the secretary's ad- And he proceeds to prove. it, a te eae ee APS it was the young miner’# “education” in economics of Adam Smith and the bible which Mr. Wilsony latter }ife into class collaboration. When, as a breaker boy he got_ some of these exploited youths to strike against a wage cut and went as their spokesman to the fore- man, this worthy “set- tled the strike” by giv- ing him a beating. “Ever sincd that day,” says Wilson, in trying to rationalize his regeneration from the spirit of struggle, “I have net believed in the use of force to set- ma de labor disputes, What We Need is justice, fair play, that will result in a permanent industrial peace,” N congress, to which he was elected in 1906, he defended the mine owners from charges that they ig- nored the safety of the miners. “I take it,” he said, “that no gentle- man will assert that the coal operators or other employers delib- erately create condi- tions in the mines by which the lives and health of their em- ployes are endangered.” n view of the continuous disasters that carry hole army of dead and wounded from the mines rica every year, and in view of the experience coal miners who know, this is exactly what the rs are doing. Wilson’s “Christian tolerance” some betrayal. "ZIM. ‘ secretary of Labor Wilson’s affection for class ce blossomed like the green bay tree. The de at was created in the last days of Taft’s admin- a, and the following administration of Woodrow formally organized it and appointed William B, as secretary. ue on, government inter in industrial di on behalf of “concilia- od “peace” has been the order of the day. > the department was created to aid wage earn- ‘yedly, Babson wisely reminds his readers— any implication that the wage earhers this department was created consist (o as are associated together in labor unions.” tary Wilson always leaned over backward vor of the employers who had open shops,” Babson on page 231 of his book about William ison. ‘ ' er) Wilson was preferred by the rich interests th Congressional District to any other la- quotes W. 8, Nearing ,a prominent employer > Pipers he dh eagia trys at oben Sec a of Labor Wilson served capitalism well, socialism as “impractical.” He opposes strikes. In fact he opposes all strikes, tw these Gage (when Wilnyn nn itll annie A Labor Faker Posing as Labor’ s Friend we is the chief purpose of your life as you se it?” he was asked. J “Wstablishing industrial peace,” instantly. As secretary of labor during the war; Wilson aiding in mabilizing labor for class collaboration in behalf of “democracy,” alfas capitalist imperialism. His heart, that ached for “peace” between bosses and workers, ached nary an ache for international peace. He cre- ated a whole series of blreaus and sections of the department to see that labor helped capital win the war, Wilson answered S secretary of labor, Wilson, in charge of the Immi- gration Bureau supervised the “deportations delir- ium” and “Red raids” against the foreign-born. He aided in establishing legislation that would let‘in the docile wage slave and shut out the “agitators.” An “Information and Education Service” was created in the department, during the war, and Babson was ap- appointed upon it—“to promote sound sentiment and to provide appropriate machinery and policies in individ- ual plants.” : : HAT are “sound sentiments?” ‘ Babson tells how Wilson judged the propaganda for wartime collaboration. He says that whenever possi- ble he, Babson, took publicity copy to Wilson to. criti- cize. What happened is told in the following words: “The secretary insisted that we should use the word ‘we’ instead of the word ‘yon,’ never saying ‘You should produce more,’ but ‘We should produce more.’” “When I wrote the words, ‘You should stick to your job,’ he would correct it and say ‘We must stick to our jobs.’ ” HUS it was that We won the war! : Thus were created some 17,000 new millionaires, about 100,000 new graves, several times that number of war-maimed workers, and labor was let in on the beau- ties of “deflation” and “readjustment” in the shape of open shop drives and wage cutting campaigns that have nearly wrecked the union organizations. This is the reward of “industrial peace” or, “class peace” during the war. das The Department of Labor and Wilson as its secretary hoped to make this sort of thing permanent. Babson télls of Wilson’s ambitions for a. “Wage Commission ‘composed of an equal number of representatives of em- Ployers, employes and the, government.” How this would defeat any power of the unions is admitted in the following words: “i : “The chief purpose of such a board would be to . have the rate of wage as nearly as possible that. which would be the NATURAL WAGE if teft to- the law of supply and demand.” ~~ So this is the final fruit of the labor of a JUST MAN? No! There is a little more. ae as - ¢ > LTHOUGH William B. Wilson came up from the ranks of the workers and once championed the principle of unionism, he has so far recovered that while in Pennsylvania he is asking union labor to sup- port him in his campaign to be seated in the United States senate, in Virginia he is operating a eoal mine @s an open shop mine owner! A NEW YORK neéws item on July 15, 1926 has the following to-say: é : William B. Wilson, former secretary of labor,. who - 4s playing for labor support to his candid@y for senator on the democratic ticket in Pennsylvania this fall, has become a coal operator in nonunion Virginia. “The periodical Coal Age announces that William B. Wilson and Daniel Milson of Allport, Pa., have leased from the Bingley coal tract at Robins, near Midlothian, in Chesterfield county, Virginia. Production is to start at 300 tons a month, “Chesterfield county coal lands depend for their mar- ket largely on preferential freight rate treatment by the Interstate Commerce Commission, It ts a com- pletely nonunion field.” y SO De. ends our account of William B, Wilson, evangel of industrial peace, a nonunion coal operator—and @ JUST MAN, who insists that the robber and the fobbed, the exploited and the exploiter, have a “com- mon jnterest"—to elect him to the U. S. senate from. the state.of Pennsylvania. . is : Let the coal“miners of-Pennsylvania beware of any “justice” that they do not get; and hold, by their own any man, however “just” to represent their iaterests, they must build their own forces, in politics, in e La bor Party, just as they must protect their interests by their own organization of labor in a powerful union, -epposed to the interests of the employing class, Chinese Joke “a eran Kai-shih, commander off the Canton armies, whose brilliant victories show him an able strate- gist, is also a humorist,._His one-time friend, Mr, Fu Biao-an, at the head of the chamber of com- merce, picked the moment of national revolution to make an appeal for “peace.” Chang sent Fu a letter waying: ‘ “Recently news reached me that you dispatched @ telegram ~requesting the termination of © hostilities, But, I being engaged in war, have not yet read it” SPORTS HE colleges are collecting. Ev last Saturday drew at least twenty thousand bugs at so much per cramped space. Besides that, there is pro football. New Red Granges are being developed. Gifted. boys who went to college and learned how to kick shins, squash noses and heave a good forward ‘pass, can now fate the world, grab “success” by the tail and make it come across. They are being grabbed up by pro football. BWven nickle candy sticks and preserved meats are being named after these com- mercialized individual stars. . * «¢ Then there are the successes of the world workers’ sports’ movement, the Red Sports International. Since its last world congress the Norwegian section of the Red Sports International has grown much larger. In France, too, big progress to develop workers’ sports can be recorded. ‘While in the Soviet’ Union, the ‘ workers’ sports movement is breaking the world’s record for speedy growth, New workers’ sports groups have affiliated with the Red Sports International in Sweden, Argentine, Holland, Japan, Great Britain and Palestine. We say, all power to the labor sportsmen of the world. : *¢e This bug has to marvel at boss wisdlg, The reason for this wise crack is the news that the Western Electric Co. is building a huge gymfhasium to revitat ize the weary muscles of the workers who slave there —so they can slave some more, Years ago, before the old soup bone became a glass arm, this bug used to pitch for company teams. The boss supplied uniforms and baseball outfits and even @ave us an afternoon off every week for practice. It ,4is. true we were catered to a little because of the “tree advertising the boss got from our games, suchas announcing the great game between the famous “Mu- sical Bambell Soups” and the “Smith Brothers Brain Drops,” but we didn’t get paid for the extra time we put in for the boss in these teams, Take this hint from the bug: If you have such foot- ~ ball and basketbalf teams in your factory, which aim to keep the workers’ mind only on éports and not on wages, conditions and hours, fight to do away with the boss control of the factory athletics and to affiliate the teams to the workers’ sports movement, We must fight ‘to develop mass sports with all workers partic ipating instead of manufacturing pro-boss individual stars which the factory teams delight in doing. . € ppeew New York there floats to us the news of good team work. It was one of those little advertised football matches between two workers’ teams. The Red Stars were contending against the Progressive Club in a hotly fought match on October 10 in Van Cortland Park—ayd the Red Stars won with a score of 5 to 0. The game started with borrowed Strength. The Progressives secured two men froin the nationalist . “Maccabee,” while the Red Stars had to recruit five men from their second team. The Progressives, altho being a team of huskies, seemingly suffered from a slight lack of team work and played in crowds, while _ at the same time the defense line of the Red Stgrs was less skillful than that of the Progressives. : At the second half fists almost flew when the center forward of the Progressives charged that the Red inside right was employing rough tactics. Which again ay to show how militant the labor sports movement , \ a 0. Sharkey socked Wills for a row of ten dollar seate, That makes him a “logical” contender for the heay» weight championship, Har, har and a couple of ho-hos, Tunney just won and has arranged for a year of shadow boxing—in the movies and on the stage. So the New York boxing commission put Sharkey’s chal lenge “on file. We hope Sharkey is not soft enuf te believe that a heavyweight boxing championship is a question of boxing Supremacy, Them days is gone forever. The noble art of liftitig tates has fallen on evil days, When this bug wants to see a boxing match he goes to a workers’ sports 8ymnasium. Pro fessional boxing reminds him too much f saf ‘deposit boxing in the bank, aoe oe y big football game 4 i ¥osM ts OD