The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-27
By J. ". TOMBSTONE.

CAPITALISM in it's early stages
~ used as its advance guard mis-
sionaries. Now, in its imperialistie
stage, it sends in labor leaders. Both
serve the same purpose. The former
used the cloak of religion, opened and
closed their meetings with prayer.
and, between times, beguiled the poor
heather into accepting christian
faith and exploitation. The latter use
the cloak of national patriotism, urg-
es capitalist democracy, substitutes
the Communist for the devil, Com
munism for hell. and betrays the
workers into the maws of imperialist-
ic exploitation.
The Pan-American Federation of La
Dor convention held in Mexico City,
Dec. 3-9, struggled for seven days,
advancing the interest of American
Imperialism at the same time making
bold pretense of representing labor.
No organization in the world of labor
has been SO frank in its support of
Imperialism, American imperialism as
against British or European imperial
ism.
No convention Of labor ever held in
America has had brought before it
such heart-rending stories of misery
and sufferings of whole nations-of
savage tortures by the rack, the whip
ping post, the hanging by thumbs of
workers who dared to lift their voices
against their oppressors. Yet, moth
ing was done except the usual pro-
cedure followed by every congress Of
this alleged labor organization-re
ferred to the executive committee for
further investigation.
The delegate from Guatemala en-
tered vigorous protest during the
last hours of the congress. It was in
reality summary of the work of the
congress and a last minute cry of
protest. He said, "You have referred
all resolutions which show the deplor-
able conditions of the Latin-American
workers, who are suffering under the
iron heel Of American imperialism, to
the executive committee for further
investigation. l am sure that they will
sleep soundly in the archives Of this
organization. Even if you could not
accept the resolutions calling for the
withdrawal of American troops from
Latin-America, or to fight against the
Platt amendment, or the other reso-
buttons which call for action, surely
you can go on record at least against
the death penalty and the tortures of
political prisoners.
I'VE are sufferers; we know the
conditions; we present to you the
facts; we ask for definite action, and
you give us words-nothing but
words. We cannot fight Yankee i'm
perialism that way"
This intrepid delegate from Guate-
mala, his liberty endangered by the
mere fact that he attended the con
gress, was the subject of a vicious at
tack by one of the socialist delegates
from Mexico and by our own liberty
loving John P. Frey, the man who
tried his best to have Tom Mooney
hanged. The socialist condemned the
Guatemalian delegation for asking
the organization to do for them what
they ought but could not do for them
selves. That it was against all COM
mon sense for the delegate to ask
the withdrawal of troops from any
country, then invite other forces to
interfere with the internal questions
of Central America.
"The delegate from Guatemala"
continued this Gales socialist, levi
IDENTIFY does not know the policies and
principles Of this organization. This
congress is not an instrument to be
used against the enemy in each coun-
try. We exert only moral influence"
He admitted that capitalism was in
ternational but that the Pan-Ameri-
can federation was opposed to outside |
interference. Their object was to help