The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1926, Page 9

By ROBERT DUNW. wus the American Federation of Labor was worrying the allied, assorted and associated automobile manufacturers in Detroit, the National Association of Manufacturers, the One Big Union of the employers, was convening under the gilded ceil- ings of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, and wor- rying no one, : The N, A. of M. is a brilliant,; strident, he-mannish aggregation of business evangels. one of their annual pow-wows are said to reprsent an invested capital of something like $4,000,000,000. The organization talks big at its conventions (this was its thirty-first), but its activities during the year are confined pretty much to lobbying and prop- aganda. Its reports are impressive. Its “open shop department” last year had over “1,600 college and university teachers of economics and sociology on its mailing list,’ and its publications, it says, “are widely used and quoted by industrial associations and it is constantly supplying material upon request to industrial organizations, college professors, de- bators and others.” For the Open Shop. The open shop department of the N. A. of M. is particularly interesting. This year, in addition to the representative of the manufacturers, those who _ Spoke for education, finance, religion, “men who stand for big constructive things,” were on the pro- gram. They added their hosanahs to the open shop American plan of employment. First, education: In the person of Dr, George B. Cutten, president of Colgate University. Dr. Cutten quoted from Oscar Wilde and the scriptures, de- plored the, English coal strike and predicted that there may be just a union or two left in America when the American plan boys get through cleaning them up. He asserted that every worker has a right —“god-given,” were his words—to work and that his remuneration, like that of university presi- dents, should be based om accomplishment. Brick- layers, especially, should: lay more bricks. This point seems to have become an obsession with some folk who are not bricklayers. They cannot see— ‘at least from the Waldorf gallery—why bricklayers don’t splash the old mortar just a little quicker. Then Dr. Outten referred to workers as morons who ought not to ask for a shafe in management through collective bargaining. He smote the sym- pathetic strike idea and deprecated the late Brother Gompers for attacking the courts. Gompers, you The delegates at. will recall, once asked Jehovah to save labor from said courts. This, the doctor thought, was very bad, ? Hammond Praises Coolidge. Second, finance: Mr. John H. Hammond of Brown Bros, & Co., startled his audience with the state- ment that the country is prosperous, “thanks to the economical administration at Washington,” and add- ed that the workers should be encouraged to pur- chase shares of stock in the companies hiring them and thus get in on the, prosperity via the dividend route. He advocated treating labor “as well as possible,” but claimed that Herrin was a blot on our scutcheon, With sometning resembling a shiver the cozy little group of business men heard his words: “Had it not been for the non-union miners many of us would have frozen to death last winter.” A Hymn to Hate By COVAMI. O thou, twin-born with Love from Beauty’s line, Her alter ego and, like her, divine! To thee I lift my voice in feeble praise! To thee, admiring, my eyes I raise! To thee whose fructifying kiss, O Hate, So oft hath ‘couraged men to challenge fate! Thou art not evil_—thou art good and fair! To thee we owe the strength of our despair; To thee alone, when all around is night, When Hope is dead and Love herself ‘in flight, To thee we owe the iron strength and will To battle for emancipation still. "Tis not till slav’ry’s hated by the slaves,— *Tig only then Truth rises from her graves,— *Tis only then that Freedom comes to birth,— *Tis only then Love glorifies the Earth,— *Tis only then, O Hate, ’tis only then,— After thou hast cleansed the hearts of men! It is because Toil’s legions know thee not, Theirs is the burden and the bitter lot; Theirs is the robot task, the-servile name, The peon’s and the tenant’s wage and shame:— Because of this, O Hate, because of this,— They have not felt thy fructifying kiss! iICAN IMPERIALISM ANOTHER CHUNK | Wi BIG LOAN wed J AMERICAN LABOR! CHICAGO TRIBUNE 1S GRANTED PROPERTY RIGHT IN AIR FOR TADIO a) _A WEEK IN CARTOONS MARIE, QUEEN OF THE RUMMIES, FLEES American Planning at the Waldorf Out of his own personal experience Mr. Hammon@ cited the fruits of conscientious open shopping. He is the chairman of the Bangor and Aroostook Raik way (if that means anything to you). Well, a few years ago he smashed a walk-out of engineers and in 1922 he beat the union shopmen led by “sinister outsiders.” Result: all his “hands” are now faith. ful and sensible. They have group insurance and “slackers have been eliminated.” Third, religion: In the bluff and bulky form of the Rt. Rey. Mons. John L, Bedford, D. D., who @ few years ago declared that every socialist should be shot. Mons. Belford didn’t repeat his stuff, but confined himself to stating that the church is ime partial and that Leo XII had penned an encyclical epistle on labor in order to dispose of the socialists, That was in 1891. “Mons.” also said, “the right te private property is absolutely sacred,” and that crafty agitators are stirring up the people to sedi tion. They should be dealt with firmly. The manw facturers, he thought, should make the open shop “attractive.” However, if William Green wants te talk in Detroit or elsewhere, “let him go hire @ hall.” Only an “accredited fhinister of the gospel” should be permitted to shoot off his face in god'd temple, , Big Man With Puny Voice. Finally the manufacturer nimself: Mr. John Les ter Dryden, president of the Employers’ Association of Detroit, reading his paper in a hurried, scarcely, audible, school-boyish voice. Informing us that there are so many people in Detroit. There are se many employes there. Some of them are “free” to be exact 97 per cent. They work in open shops. Only 20,000 are still “enslaved,” They work in union shops. Labor conditions, in fact “are almost ideal.” Why? Because the employers got together and—organized into an association with a “free employment bureau” to break strikes and maintaim a blacklist. And now Detroit is no longer under the domination of the filthy union hod carriers and milk wagon drivers! In fact, the visiting delegation of ‘labor union men” sent over by the London Daily Mail says all sorts of nice things about the town. In short, everything is lovely because employers are organized, and workers are not. 2 It should be added that the chairman of the meet- ing who introduced the above worthy,wién of welbht, insisted that the N. A. of M. is not opposed to om ganized labor. It is merely opposed to having iabor organizations act like labor organizations after they get organized. AFTER GETNNG THE BOOT ’ whe, By M. P. 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