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

is to uphold private property of the capt.
IdHStS; we OF the American Federation of
Laor stand for four great principles gov
ernIng industry. These are, ownership of
property, an adequate return on invest
ments, an adequate sum allowed industry
IOr deterioration, and that all workers. in
Guiding managers get proper compensation
Tor what they put into industry
Curslng the reds, Mr.. Gompers said in the Con-
EentlGn: those who know me and my attitude know
That am not even pink" Yes by God he is RIGHT
And ne will be aStOunded to hear tomorrow the echo
coming from the working claSsi "YOu bet Won are.
not red! Not even pink! You are yellowp'
NO amalgamatiOn because it means overthrow
OF the goveTnment-cries the GOmpers bureau ,racv
But the workers are sick and tired of that United
States government which for them is only a big
elaborate JuggeInaut for breaking strikes.
The natural role of the workers and farmers in
pohucs is the protesting minOrity-cries the Com
pers bureaucracy. But the workers and farmers
know that they are the overwhelming majority of
the nation and that they cannot force through their
most elementary demands without gaining control
OF the government.
'Our sacred goal is to defend private
property of the capitalists cries the Com
pers bureaucracy. But the miners are for
naturalization of the mines; the railroad
workers are for the Plumb Plan; the farm
ers are for naturalization of all public utiIi-
ties.
The biggest feature of the convention was that
the GOmpers bureaucracy Soidarized itself absolutely
and definitely with capitalist property and the cap
ltalst form OF government declared itself for per-
peCuaClng wage slavery Tor peIpetuating the role of
the workers and farmers as a pOwerleSs minority
at the moment when the movement for amalgation
naturalization and Labor Party is growing daily in
to a tremendous mass movement of workers and
farmers. GOmpers declared he is yellow; but at the
very same moment he is compelled to start a Holy
War against the Communist menace in the unions
because the masses are declaring themselves ever
more red. The GOmpers bureaucracy identified it.
self completely with capitalism in form that every
worker could understand. 1t always has been a
betrayer in the mysterious Hobbies of Washington
and in the luxurious suites of the National Civic
Federation but in Portland it brought its betrayal
out into the open convention and thereby made it
understandable to every worker. The GOmpers bu-
reaucracy at Portland surrounded the body of CAPT
taism coat of mail but this will not save cap
italism from the attacks of the workers, and will
have the sole effect that the blows Of the workers
against capitalism will strike first the labor bureau
cracy-this coat of mail Of capitalism The working
class will understand better and better that it can
not attack the body of capitalism itself before it
news into pieces that protecting coat of wage slav
cry and political Oppression-the labor bureaucracy
THE WORKERS WILL UNDERSTAND THAT
THE PROCESS OF LIBERATION OF THE WORK
ING CLASS FROM CAPITALISM is THE SAME
PROCESS AS THAT OF THE LIBERATION OF
THE LABOR FROM THE GOMPERS BUREAU
CRACY