The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-06
MOBILIZATION
DAY BACKED BY
SAM GOMPERS
DenOunceS Communists
Opposing War
tspeeIaI to the DaIIy W0rksr.l

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. S.
Contrary to pacifist expecta-
tons the executive council of
the American Federation of
Labor, in session here, sup
ported the mobilization day
plans of the war department
and issued a statement de-
nouncing Communists and
pacifists.
Labor was urged to hold ZAP
lpropriate exercises" Sept. IL,
the day on which the republican
lparty government will test the
ability of American capitalism
to muster its war machinery in
order to suppress internal
trouble or wage a foreign war.
The resolution condemning Presi-
dent Coolidge's defense day plans was
sidetracked and counter resolution
introduced by Samuel Gompers or at
his direction.
The red spectre of Communism
again appeared at the side of the vet
eran labor faker, when he saw in the
nationwide wave Of protest against
capitalist militarism, the lead of the
Communists who hold that the work
ers should strenously resist the mill
taristic schemes OF the capitalist
class. The greater part of the screed
issued by Gompers was devoted to an
attack on the Communists who are
recognized by the reactionary labor
faker as the only active revolutionary
political party in the United States.
Gompers' statement issued thru the
messenger boy Woll, is as follows:
Hostile to Morgan.
Much of the criticism of Defense
Day, is insincere, part of the world
wide organized pacifist propaganda,
and hostile to American democracy.
I'VE have denounced both militar-
ism and pacifism. We understand the
designs of the militarists who would
take advantage of every opportunity
to feed and promote the war spirit,
and we, likewise understand the de-
signs of the pacifists who would dis
arm America first and other nations
later Most of them now prefer to
disarm all nations except Soviet Rus
STA, so that dictators of Moscow may
| find easier their rogdto q greater die
Itatorship. We oppose that most Of
all.
Insincere Criticism.
1T is true that the suggestion for
civilian mobilization on Defense Day
has opened the door to much pacifst
criticism, and to criticism also by
those who are not at all pacifists.
"But l am confident that great
deal of the criticism is insincere,
part of the worldwide organized paci-
fist propaganda and hostile to Ameri-
can democracy. Defense Day itself
is a matter of law and think most
labor men will feel that our military
establishment may participate proper
ly in the exercises. Our military es-
Enlistment is not large and it is COM
posed of Americans who are just like
the rest of us in their love of free
dom and their love of their country.
Assalls Communists.
"The Communists miss no opportun-
ity to turn loose destructive propagan-
da to undermine American institu-
tions. We know this propaganda from
contact and we know It's purpose.
The most active pacifist influences at
work in America today are those d.
rectly under Moscow control.
I'VE oppose militarism at every
turn. We have set forth our belief
in regard to world peace and we do
not delude ourselves into notion that
it is coming thru the efforts OF paci-
fists. 1t will come thru proper organ
ization.