The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-06-30

ganlzation, independent of the Am
erican Federation of Labor. The fact
that most workmen in America are
not organized; that the unions which
are not affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor have member
ship of more than a million; that
there exists tendency toward the
creation of 'one big union; that un-
! ions separate themselves from the
American Federation of Labor all the
time-all this makes it possible and
necessary that all these forces be
united into a new labor organization,
based upon the principles of the in
! dustrial union and of the class strug-
| gle. The Communist party and the
|. W. W. should work together for
the accomplishment of this great
aim.
In order that this should be done
| 1t is necessary that the revolutionary
masses in the |. w. w. should take
all power away from those union
officials.
Striving to create this new labor
organization, the Communist party
must at the same time remain in
close and continuous contact with the
workmen who still remain members
of the old unions. and even after the
creation of the new labor organiZa-
ton, the Communists must continue
their revolutionary work in the ranks
OF the American Federation of La
Dor, IN order to unite and mobilize
all class-conSclouS Workmen in the
struggle against capitalism. BY
means of the Communist groups or
gained in all the unions, as well as
special organizations and the new
great labor organization, the unifica-
ton of the revolutionary industrial
forces of the proletariat will be COM
pleted.'
The question of famine relief is
touched upon in Resolution "a and
your committee wishes it might have
an opportunity to go thoroughly into
that subject in its report. Suffice it
to say that the Soviet authorities and
the friends of Sovietism in America
have neglected no opportunity to Gre
ate propaganda for the Soviet under
! the guise of securing famine relief.
If an article in behalf of this alleged
relief quite generally published in
the United States, one of its spokes-
men brazenly described the desire of
the Soviets as follows:
1--WE ask Labor to consign what it
sends to the port officer of the Sow
ct Government, in order that the peo-
pie OF Russia can see that the work.
ers of the world recognize the Rus
sion Workers Republic; trust it, and
hope it will make good"
1T was further requested that
such relief supplies be shipped to
Russia as the Russians prefer to
have 1t done and to send with it the
mute message the Russians are hun
CRY to hear-that American labor ull-
derstands for it is the SIGN
that the American workers realize
that the Russian workers are in a
long, long strike for the common
good. A more complete misrepre-
sentation of the actual facts and of
the attitude of American labor would
be difficult to imagine.
i We cannot refrain here from
calling attention to the great relief
work conducted by the American Re-
Ilet Administration, and We are hap
py to say effectively and conscienti-
ously supported and assisted by the
officers of the American Federation
of Labor.
1T is advisable to say a word in
connection with portions of the reso-
luton dealing with tyranny and bru-
tally under the Soviets. There can
never be compiled any adequate
statement concerning the number who
have died of starvation as the result
OF Soviet incompetence and blunder-
ing but it is possible to present a
partial tabulation of those who have
been murdered by the Soviets in pur-
suit of its policy of deliberate VOL
ence and determination. Because it
is in the most convenient form we
quote a compilation made by Arch
bishop, Alexander, head of the Greek
Orthodox Church in North America
who drew his figures from Soviet
sources. Archbishop Alexander
found that in the period from No
vember 7, 1917, to July l, 1921, the
following executions were instigated
by the Soviets:
SloISyInen ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1,2l5
Bishops Observation-Disclosures. %