The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-08
GOMPERS Will
Sell WORKERS
TO war AGAIN
Communism WiIIBGnish
Wars, Marley ANSWERS

Sam Gompers' eagerness to
sell the workers again to the
war lords is only further proof
of the old labor takers adoring
service to the capitalists of the
United States, according to the
statement issued by Joseph
Marley, campaign manager of
the Workers Party presidential
fight. Manley answers the A.
F. of L. endorsement of MobiIi-
zation Day with a singing re-
buke to Gompers and his ultra
yellow assistant, Matt WolI.
Manley's statement follows:
The statement given out by
Matthew Vol, the right hand
man of Samuel Gompers, in
! which he attempts to link the
G 0 m m unists with pacifist
propaganda, is typical of the
methods of Vol and his master,
Gompers. Their wordy and
high-falutin' statement has but
one meaning and that is: War
in the interests of the capitalist
class is right and war in the
interests of the working class is
wrong.
Deny Glass WarI
Gompers and his spokesman VOL,
have always denied the existence Of
the class war, or even the very exist
ence Of classes themselves. When the
World War was being fought, Gompers
toured Europe in an attempt to drive
the European weak kneed socialist pa
cifists onto his war juggernaut that he
assured us times without number
would make the world safe for the
democracy of his late friend Wilson
the same Wilson whom he induced to
come to the Buffalo convention of the
A. F. of L., so that even the mildest
criticism of the World War could not
be made. He tried to commit the
trade unions to join in the terrible
slaughter.
Open Shop Reward.
In return for the treacherous role
played by Gompers during the war,
when he hobnobbed with the militar-
lists of the world. while the workers
of America were either fighting
abroad in the war of capitalism or at
home on strike fighting the war of
their class, Gompers' policy and tao
tics were rewarded with the famous
after-the-war open shop drive, which
dealt death blow to many of his
unions.
Gompers, now in his old age by the
shores of the Atlantic, refuses to
change because he has always fought
for his capitalist masters, against
those militant workers who were will
ing If necessary to give up their lib
erty and their lives, so that militarism
and its parent, Capitalism, might be
destroyed.
Gompers has given a lefthanded en-
dorsement to LaFollette. But on the
question of Mobilization Day he faith.
fully answers the call of his master
Coolidge. Gompers knows that his
friend Secretary Hughes is in Lon
don Hughes, in company with Nor.
gan, the finance capitalist of the
world. representing all the forces of
American imperialism.
Gompers knows that a new war
may be necessary to collect the Eu-
ropean debts Of Imperialist America.
True to the interests of his masters,
and on the brink Of the grave, he sits
in his wheel chair ready again to hurl
millions Of young men to death and
torture. Gompers knows that against
such war the Communists will fight.
Gompers and Vol condemn the
Communists as the leading pacihsts.
Yes, they may well tremble at the
. name OF Communism. Communism
will set the world free from all war
when Gomperism is in it's grave.