The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-11

foes of labor by allowing his ms
Matthew Vol, to endorse and g
Education Week. in the public
lists and all militant labor.
This is not the first time tn;
American Legion, which is pro-
noting Education week" In
October, 1923, just after Com
pers' followers had expelled VIII
liam Dunno from the Portland
convention Of the A. F. of L. for be.
ing a champion of the working class,
Gompers rushed down to San Fran
cisco, where he was the guest of the
American Legion convention.
This was the same convention
which had invited Mussolini to attend
at the Legion's expense, to tell how
he kept the capitalists in control of
Italy by numbering workers. Comp
ers was disappointed, however, as his
colleague did not accept the invita-
ton. But Gompers had good com
pany at the American Legion conven.
ton.
General Joseph Halter, the Polish
autocrat, was also guest of the
Legion at the San Francisco conven-
ton. Halter, fresh from his bloody
work in Poland on behalf of the
French bankers, made practically the
same remarks in speaking to the "le-
gionnaires" as were made by Gompers.
Halter strongly urged 100 per cent
Americanism, even of the foreign
born"
First Aid to Legion.
Gompers told the convention of the
American Legion, 1.-THE American
Federation of Labor stands side by
side with the American Legion in
everything" and then boosted of his
help in the world war ito make mil
lions Of dollars safe for American plu.
tocracy" Gompers is now making
good his pledge by releasing the ma
chinery he controls, to boost "educa-
ton week" in cooperation with the
National Security League, the National
Education Association. the American
Legion and the bureau of education of
the U. S. department of interior.
A resolution condemning the Ku
Klux Khan by name was defeated by a
vote of seven to one in this same
convention which heard Gompers
promise the undivided support of or
ganized labor to the legion. Gompers'
support of>the American Legion ante
dated the San Francisco convention
by two years, for Gompers formed an
open alliance with the legion at the
1921 convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The American Legion is promoting
education week at the request of the
employers in order to teach anti-un.
ionism to the school children, and to
inculcate into their immature minds
that all workers must be docile slaves
who never rebel against capitalistic
oppression. Ever since it's formation
the American Legion has broken up
peaceful meetings of workers, opposed
strike movements. displayed on all oc-
casions hostility to the aims of trade
unionism and loyalty to the employ.
ing class.
Gompers Goes the Limit.
Gompers, in the Cincinnati conven-
ton of the American Federation of La
Dor, held in 1921, invited the COM
mander Of the American Legion to adj
dress the convention.
Gompers went further than that,
and invited this labor hating organiza-
j ton to set up trade union branches
of the American Legion, thus opening
the way for the fostering of the entire
organised labor movement with anti
working class, capitalist propaganda.
And now Gompers is allowing his
lieutenant, Mathew Woll, to send let.
ters to every affiliated central body
turnout the country, urging trade UNI
ionists to cooperate with the legion
In disseminating anti-labor propa,
ganda to the school children of the
country during education week"