The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-16
MOST SAVAGE
LABOR ENEMIES
MOURN GOMPERS
7. u. E. L. in Statement
on Labor Outlook
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airy conception of the labor unions as
schools for Communism and organs of
struggle which must ultimately aid in
the overthrow of capitalist rule, and
to the extent that he was able to hold
them back from this historical mis-
sion, he made the unions into auxil
larry bodies to the capitalists produc.
tive and governmental machinery.
He was vice-president Of the nation.
al civic federation, to preach the thar
mony" of labor and capital in indus
try. He was on the council of the ma
tional defense to mobilize labor for
cannon fodder on the fields of France
He represented labor" at the confer
ence of ghouls which as peace con
ference" continued the war under the
Versailles treaty.
In the interest of Wall Street imper
ialism he withdrew the A. F. of l.. from
the Amsterdam international Fedora
ton Of Trade Unions when American
capital adopted a policy Of ''independ
ent action" He was, at the time h,
died, maneuvering to return to Am
sterdam to follow the Dawes plan
when Wall Street imperialism had
conquered a leading position owe.
western European capital in order that
he might by fighting unity of the Am
sterdam unions with the revolutionar,
unions of Soviet Russia, throttle labor
resistance against the enslaving
Dawes plan. He was the most vicious
enemy of Soviet Russia and all il
means to the workers of all the world
Gompers fought the Red Interna
tional of Labor Unions internationally
just as he fought the Trade Unioi
Educational League in the Unite,
States. In both cases he followed tn
lead of the capitalists. His trip to
Mexico was marked by his subjugatiol
of the Mexican and Central American
unions to his reactionary policies. Or
the same day he visited Presiden
Gales, and pinned upon him an EN-
blem of labor" the Gales govern
ment negotiated huge loan with J
P. Morgan's bank in Wall Street.
Gompers is dead. Even his pa
bearers symbolic his capitalist CO.
nections. They are Governor Smit
and Mayor Hylan, of Tammany la.
Besides, there are Alton B. Parker, an.
Bernard M. Baruch. the democrat
wing Of J. p Morgan's bank, so fait
fully served by Gompers. Besid
these, is Ralph M. Easley head of IT,
civic federation.
Gompers himself selected his plac
Of burial. 1t. too, represents his u
shakable affinity for companionsh
with the enemies of labor. He W
lie quite appropriately, betwee
Andrew Carnegie and William Rock
Teller, after being prayed over T.
Jewish rabbis, catholic priests an
protestants, and after the hummer.
of Elks, Odd Fellows and Masons ha.
been ended.
Gompers is dead. But the Few
that he did lives after him" He poi
luted the American unions with elias,
l(OAAobOA0 tAOn. AAC lOu6iAL III ~ al
separation against industrial unionism
He built tyrannical machine Of pare
sites and grafters, typified by huci
men as Berry of the Pressmen, VIII,
plundered his union treasury of grea
sums; Brindell, the corrupt car of tht
New York Building Trades; Tin
Murphy, whose career is one lont
trail Of corruption from congress tc
banditry with labor unions as a side
line, and these were all supported by
swarms Of sluggers and gunner that
stifled every rebellious expression o
the rank and file. Gompers Tough
every sign OF working class politica
action. He succeeded in conquerini
the whole socialist party, including
Debs
Gompers is dead. Let the ranks
the left wing clear decks for action
Forward under the slogan Down wit
class collaboration" Against the r
dictionary machine, advance "Contrs
OF the union by shop conmitteesi
Forward against all bourgeois polit
cal parties, big or little, disguised
open! Let the battle cry be "Onl
the revolutionary left wing can figh
the battles Of the workers." Agains.
the upholders OF capitalism in tn,
army OF labc-, advance the slogan
Forward to wo~-ers' and farmers
government"
NATIONAL COMMITTEE TRADE
UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE.
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