The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-02
BY ]. LOUIS ENepAHL.

by Js LOOlO EtN0GNf1Lt
THE pitiful spectacle of division
l and disruption presented by the
so-called leaders" Of Americas or
ganized workers. fighting for place
on the back doorstep of the national
democratic convention at New York
City, may well be charged to three
elements that are or have been more
or less active in seeking the political
support of Americas workers and
farmers.
Sam Gompers and his Tammany
Hall gangsters in the New York state
labor movement have not tried to
hide their democratic party afilia-
lions.
And the railroad chiefs, who keep
unruly company with Gompers and
the garbage and ash cans at the rear
entrance to the donkeys quadren-
NAL show, have been staunch sup
porters of McAdoo from the start, in
spite of his oily afiliations.
Traitors to the United Front.
But these fake leaders" can only
get away with their fraud, with a
greater or less degree of success, be-
cause of the treason to the United
Front Labor-Farmer movement of
three distinct elements as follows:
FIRST: The groups still clinging
to the Conference for Progressive Po-
litical Action, that meets July 4th, at
Cleveland. 1t was this conference
that first started out with the promise
of independent political action for
workers and farmers, but has now
trimmed it's sails to the independent"
correspondence candidacy of LaFol-
Ietts, supported by adherents of both
the old parties.
SECOND: The Fitzpatrick Buck
Brown tendency that really organized
into the first National Farmer-Labor
Party, started in 1919, but who be-
trayed the United Front in 1923, and
have now strangled the child Of their
own creation.
THIRD: The socialist party that
became the ally of the worst reaction
in the American labor movement in
its war upon the Communists.
Who Speaks for Labor?
Both the Gompers elements and the
railroad brotherhood crowd are try
ing to crawl under the tent that shell
tiers the jackass circus in New York
City on the plea that they alone
speak for American labor; that they
represent American labor"
Only the smoke screen raised by
the te-Johnston-Stone c. P.
P. A. crowd; by the Fitzpatrick fol
lowing and by the socialists, could
give labor fakirs clinging to the tail
Of the democratic donkey the brazen
nerve to make any such claims.
Only the attack of LaFollette on
the American Communist movement
and the st. Paul June 18th Conven-
ton, successful tho it was, could stir
the high-salaried members of the
steering committee" of the railroad
ers in New York to so rape the truth
as to declare that "the sentiment of
the great mass of the organized work
ers is Overwhelmingly for Mr.. Nc
Adoo."
Only the surrender of all his preten-
sions to militancy by a Fitzpatrick,
and the cowardly capitulation of the
socialists, including complete agree
ment with the red-baiting of the here
sy-hunting president of the American
Federation of Labor, could have such
moonshine effect on Mr.. Gompers
as to cause him to contend that no
one is authorized to speak for the
American Federation of Labor except
his own, privately conducted, Non
partisan Political Committee made up
of his own henchmen, Matthew Vol,
Frank Morrison and James O'Connell
Unmasklnu Fakirs.
This cat-and-dog fight among the
self-appointed boosters of both Nc
Adoo and AL Smith should omen the