The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-11-16

A HIT FOR THE PARTY WHEN HE SUCCEEDED
in GETTING FIRED"
The second reason that the Portland convention
is victory for Dunno is that the Gompers bureau
cTacy made big mistake-the mistake of it's life
IN IDENTIFYING THE VITAL QUESTIONS OF
6dE LABOR MOVEMENT ALMAGATION, LA
Dor PARTY, RECOGNITION OF SOVIET RUS
SlA WITH THE COMMUNISTS. The labor move
ment must disntegrate if it does not materiaIize
Chese three slogans. The craft unions must amalga-
mate, II they wish to fight in any way at all against
the trusts. Without Labor Party, labor will lose
SC1!ke after strike against the united force of capt.
Cs1lStS and the government THE DOWNFALL OF
SOVIET RUSSIA WOULD MEAN THE RULE OF
FASCISM ON WORLD SCALE. The Com
pers bureaucracy itself identified these three vital
issues OF the labor movement with the Communists
In other words they themselves brought to the at
LenGlon OF the workers that the Communists and
ONLY THE COMMUNISTS, as an organized poiti-
cal party, fighting for these life and death issues
OF the working class.
THE LABOR BUREAUCRACY-TH COAT OF
MAIL OF THE CAPITALIST CLASS
The third reason which bears out the statement
that the Portland Convention is a victory for the
Workers party is that the Gompers bureaucracy
Identified itself definitely with capitalism and the
capitalist government. GOmpers is an old servant
OF the capitalists and Of every capitalist administra
ton; but that which he and his henchmen perform
ed IN Portland reveals to the whole working class as
never before the true vsage of the reactionary la
Dor bureaucracy. GOmpers and his men have identi-
fed themselves with capitalism and the capitalist
government, not in the past questions of prin-
clple such as ant-SOcallSm or natOnalSm and war,
but on all the most elementary questions effecting
the daily life of the workers without exception.
GOmpers and his pals for long time have been the
commonest betrayers of the American working
class; but for the first time their betrayal has
been translated from the highbrow phrases of ma
tOnaliSm and anti-SOcialism into the popular angu-
age of the daily life of the workers, GOmpers, Mat
thew Waldy Berry and the others have been Ordin-
airy agents of the capitalists and the government for
scores of years; but it at Portland that they
confessed it openly for the first time in face of the
whole working class.
The executive council of the American Fedora
tiOn of Labor declared in its report that it fights
against amalgamatiOn because amalgamatOn is
frankly revolutionary and "has for its ultimate pur
pose the eventual overthrow of the whole democratic
government of the United States"
Matthew Vol, vice-preSdent of the American
Federation of Labor, fought against the idea of the
Labor party on the ground that it would be great
menace for the workers if they became the ruling
power, if they controlled the government; 'The
downfall of the labor Party of Great Britain would
come, once it had attained control Of the govern
ment The only way for labor to keep strong is as
protesting party"
Major George L. Berry, president of
the international FRESHMAN Unions, declar-
ed, with the Endorsement of GOmpers and
all the other officials, that the great prin-
ciple of the American Federation of Labor