The daily worker., 1924-12-29
The Mexican Was Right They Are Bankers

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gates from England. Germany, Messh,
CO and Canada" looking to the forma-
tion Of new international That was
the inference, since "a definite organ
ization Of American and European la
Dor" was contemplated, without men
ton being made of either Amsterdam
or the Red international of Labor
Unions.
This was apparently ''feeler'' OF
Gompers. The British and German
delegates denied holding such confer
ences. But evidently move was on
foot by the A. F. Of L. bureaucracy
to affiliate to Amsterdam, upon their
own terms.
Gompers 20 Control Amsterdam.
And what does the A. F. Of L. want
in Amsterdam? 1t wants control Of
European labor-and to attain that It
must control Amsterdam. So 1t was
making a feint at starting a new
International" more to the right than
Amsterdam, to force Amsterdam to
the right and to sign over its lead
ership to Gompers in order to get
the affiliation of the American FEEDER
alton, just as European governments
have been forced to sign over their
policies to American imperialism in
order to get loans to ward on col
lapse.
Gompers' policy has always been
and remains, the policy Of the Amert.
can government. If he is now going
back to Europe, it is not for Europ6's
good, but for the benefit of American
imperialism. He revealed this malevo
lence in his attacks on Russian work
ers, and by his henchmen's public op-
position to the speech of A. b. Swales.
British fraternal delegate, who said
that Amsterdam, or British workers,
at least, did not fear the Russian
workers and wanted unity with them
Later Swales admitted that Amster
dam would drop some Of its "objec.
tionable features" to get the affiliation
of the A. f. Of L.
A Dawes Plan Of Labor" Being Made
Chester M. Wright, yellow exsocial
ist and Gompers' publicity man, man
ufactured resentment among the
delegates" at Swales' remark And
when the matter of International rela-
tions came up, Matthew Woll stated
the official objection that the A. F. of
L. wanted its autonomy" But Just
as Woll believed in the Monroe Doc
trine of labor when the Mexican fed
Grafton gave guarantee Of behavior BY
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lieve in Dawes plan OF labor when
Amsterdam will refuse unity with the
Red International Of Labor Unions,
when Amsterdam viii refuse the Rus
sian industrial unions admission into
the industrial internatonals and will
surrender to Gompers the dictatorship
of European labor just as the govern
ments of Europe have surrendered to
J. P. Morgan and company.
The Surrender to Capital.
These are the big developments Of
the American Federation Of Labor's
44th annual convention. Faced with
rapidly dwindling membership. with
antiquated craft unions unable and
unwilling to fight for the workers in
terests, with reaction triumphant in
both politics and industry, with war
against Japan clouding the horizon,
unemployment, the open shop drive
and the menace of the Dawes plan
threatening wage and hour standards,
the A. +. of L. surrendered body, soul
and boot-straps to the capitalists, ig-
nored all the vital interests of the
workers and openly became the labor
department Of American Imperialism.
What Shall Labor Do?
What shall American labor do In the
face of this wholesale betrayal. II
cannot quit the class struggle, nor
can it bear forever the miseries thus
forced upon it. The sooner IT makes
up its mind to fight, the sooner the
inevitable battle will be over, it must
look to the left wing, the militants, the
Communists. These are not in the
high councils OF the A. r. Of L., but
down among the rank and ME OF work
ers in the shops.
Build the Party Nuclei and Union
Fractions.
The Workers Communist Party IL
organizing its basic units in the shops.
Revolutionary workers, join the Work
ers Party factory nuclei Form reyo
lutionary fractions in your unions un.
der the guidance Of the Trade Union
Educational League to fight class col
laboration and official trcachury.
Organize Ail-InolusIve Shop Committee
Resist wage cuts and open shop
drives by rallying all the workers, or
ganized or unorganized, around shop
committees, representative OF every
craft in the shopl Make the shop coru.J
mittees the leading organs OF mass
struggle for political demands, .efemon.
strate with these shop committee mass
organizations against in5unctions.
against blacklist or discharge Of mill.
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