The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-16

gamaIlon and labor party has been
carried on under the guise of fight
against the recognition Of Soviet
Russia.
Evading the Issue.
According to the Gompers propa-
gandists, the Soviet government, the
bird International. the Communist
Party of Russia and the Workers
(Communist) Party of America are
striving to elislave the workers Of
the world and the American workers
first of al.
The American Federation of Labor,
says Gompers, is the only defense the
workers have against the horrible
tortures the Communists are prepar-
ing to infiict on them.
| Amalgamation, class political ac-
ton, are only devices TO distract the
attention of the workers unit. recog-
milton of Soviet Russia is had when
the bloody rule of Communism will
crush the free-born American wage
earners.
/ The answer to the demand for
amalgamation consists, then, of a
recital and denunciation of the al
! legged atrocities of the Soviet gov
iernment; the answer to the demand
for class farmer and labor party
IS the recital of more alleged atroci-
generally furnished by the &C.
commodating department of Justice.
The real issue has become the rec
ognition of the Soviet government
and upon this issue Gompers stands
or falls.
Gompers himself knows this and
this is the reason for the deluge of
antl-Soviet and anti-Communist
propaganda that has flooded the edi-
torial desks of every labor paper in
the United States reaching flood tide
since the Borah committee began its
sessions.
Laying the Ghost.
Once the Soviet government is rec
ognized by the United States it
energies from the bloody mist with
which it has been shrouded by the
Gompers propagandists and becomes,
for the organized workers of the
United States, a realty which they
can investigate at their leisure. 1t
will no longer be a horrid mystery
to which the VOLS and Wal.ings can
refer in trembling tones and with
which they can cause cold chills to
chase one another up and down the
back of the dues paying membership.
Amalgamation and the farmer-la-
Dor party movement then will have
to be fought on their merits and not
showed into the background while the
scarlet specter of Communism is pa
raded in front of the rank and file.
Gompers made one of the great
blunders Of his career when ne car
ried the Wilson war against the
workers and farmers government of
Russia into the unions; he made an.
other blunder when he used the ig-
norant fear of Communists and Com
munism to prevent action for ANAL
gamation and a farmer-labor party
and he made the blunder of blunders
when he made the non-recognitiof1 of
Soviet Russia policy Of ofiicialdom
of the American Federation of Labor.
Stronger Forces.
Gompers cannot prevent the rec
ognition of Soviet Russia because
powerful economic forces are making
it inevitable. He has made a major
i hiioeNhC anu AS ID BOliiR 10 SuIcT all
the humiliation Of defeat in his pol
icy of enmity to the workers and
peasants Of Russia.
| Recognition means the loss Of his
leadership and it also means that he
will-if recognition does not actually
kill him-live to see the American
labor movement progressing steadily
and rapidly towards industrial union
ism and fighting its enemies on the
political fed with mass party as
its weapon. These are the terrible
consequences that will result from
Soviet recognition--they will hardly
fulfill the Gompers prophecies Of
! disaster.
The barrage of anti-Soviet and
anti-Communist propaganda that the
Wallings and Wrights are laying
down at present is al the evidence
needed to show that Gompers re-
alizes--too late--the desperate situa-
ton is which he has placed himself.
Gompers has been hooked by the
pOint of fha Cotrtaf esoLl~ l..