The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-06
AMERICAN LABOR ALLIANCE IS
LAUNCHED IN NEW YORK.
INDEPENDENT LABOR ORGANIZATIONS UNITED BODY TO
ESTABLISH WORKERS SOVIET REPUBLIC
SENTIMENT AGAINST REACTION IS cRYsTALIzED.

Progressive and radical organiza-
tions of the American Labor Move
ment have long felt the need for
common base from which to attack
the reactionary control of the Amer
lean movement. For many years the
opposition to the Gompers machine
has been growing. 1t has resulted in
the creation from time to time of
various sporadic organizations of
more or less stability and more or
less intelligent understanding of the
problems that had to be faced and
the tactics that ought to be used in
order to bring the great masses of
workers into line behind the radical
program.
With the present industrial crisis
threatening the very existence of the
labor movement through its wide
spread unemployment and the open
shop drive, it has become increasingly
necessary to give to American labor
militant leadership, a scientific
economic program and class con-
scious rank and file. AS was con-
fidently expected, the recent A. F. of
L. convention in Denver has utterly
failed to do anything to stem the tide
Of defeat after defeat that has been
increasingly the lot of American labor
ever since the signing Of the armistice.
The Denver convention was only the
elimination Of years of futility and
weakness of the A. F. of L. More
than anything else in recent years it
has shown that the A. F. of L. Ander
its present leadership, with its lack of
any semblance Of progressive pro-
gram, is utterly incapable to cope with
the pressing problems facing the
workers.
To Oppose Reaction.
The growing discomfort with the
prised of affiliated organizations rep
resenting every part Of the United
been crystalized. With the launching
Of the American Labor Alliance, com,
\ prissd q affinatsd organizations re.
\presenting every part Of the United
States and varied fields of working
class endeavor, the radical elements
in the American labor movement have
at last come together. With close
working agreement as to purpose
program and tactics, twelve Of the
most active and widely known work
er's independent organizations have
come together in an affiliated organi-
zation to present a united front
against every enemy of the working
class, from the master class govern
ment to the weak and reactionary
labor leaders.
The plan for forming the American
Labor Alliance was conceived at an
informal conference of a few repres.
entatives of radical organizations
These called a convention of repre-
sentatives from fifteen independent
organizations to which ten responded
with official delegates and two others
with unofficial, fraternal delegates
Organizations officially represented
were; Friends Of Soviet Russia; The
Irish American Labor League; Ma.
tional Defense Committee; Finnish
Socialist Federation; Associated Toilel
Clubs; American Freedom Foundation
Ukreaian Workers Club; Industrial
Socialist League; MARKHAM Educa
tional Society and the Hungarian
Workers Federation. Unofficially thu
Arbeiter Bildungs-V -Vereine and thu
Pacific Coast Educational Bureau
were represented.
The first named ten organization.
became affiliated with the newly
formed American Labor Allianc,
when the governing rules, submitted
by an elected subcommittee were
unanimously adopted. They are a.
follows:
Governing Rules of the American
Labor Alliance.
Art. I. The name Of the organiza
tion shall be the American Labor AL
lance.
Art. 2. The purpose of the America
Labor Alliance shall be to propagat
to the workers the idea Of the aboli
tion Of the capitalist system thru tn
establishment Of a Workers Sovie
Republic; to uphold the interests o
the workers in the class struggle; :
fight against reactionary policies 4
the labor movement and to defen
class war prisoners.
Art. 8. Any organization which dc
clares itself to be in agreement wit
the purpose Of the A. L. A. and whic
agree to abide by It's wssking rulel
may be affiliated upon vote Of
majority Of the Executive Board.
Art. 4. The affairs Of the organizs
ytion shall be administered by a
Executive Board Of seven member
elected by convention. The decision