The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-22
Imperialism in the Labor Movement

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Last Sabbath day, the delegates to the 44th an
nual convention of the American Federation OF
Labor went to Juarez, Mexico, where they were
entertained in state at bullfght Four bulls
we're killed. 1t would have been more fitting tc
this holiday Of Yankee Imperialism, if these had
been four Mexican poems butchered to edify the
labor lieutenants of Morgan and company.
On Tuesday, it is announced that Gompers is
beginning maneuvers to re-enter the reformist
Amsterdam international in order to further
therein the interests of the Dawes plan which I'M
derwritss the imperialist ventures in Europe of
Morgan and company.
In Panama, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Cuba Colon
bia, Mexico, Nicaragua and other small and help
less nations the agents Of Gompers and company
have followed the United States marines to add
to armed force the power of guile and deceit I'M
der the sacred name of the brotherhood of labor
The marines and Mr.. H. L. BrunsOn, commissioned
by the Pan-American Federation of Labor, were
both agents of the same institution, the banks of
J. P. Morgan and company
1t is no accident that Ricardo Trevino, sec
rotary of the Mexican Confederation of Labor,
Landed Gompers at the time Gales, the pres
ident Of Mexico, makes obeisance to Wall Street,
and then goes into the convention of the Mexican
confederation to expel Communist delegate as
a sign of submission to the Caesar of the north.
Neither is it an accident that Peter Grassman,
the German labor bureaucrat who last spring was
called into conference with Brigadier General
Dawes, Fascist open shop agent of Morgan's bank,
to discuss the provisions of the Dawes plan should
now be at the Ell Paso convention in conference
with Gompers, and publicly bowling both to the
Dawes plan and to Gompers.
Nor is it by chance that Gompers should full
inmate against the japanese, while twenty Of his
henchmen propose a resolution which is purposed
to make three officials of the A. F. of L. assistants
to the secretary of war at a time when American
banks and commercial interests, desperately
striving to dislodge Japan from her new vantage
in China, are intriguing night and day and using
freely the threat of war, the presence of warships
and the promise of maneuvers least of Hawaii"
These things all have a relation and meaning.
They are not isolated incidents They mean that
the labor bureaucrats of the American Federation
of Labor are owned body, soul and bootstraps by
the American capitalists and revel in their har-
.otry.
But this constitutes something besides shame.
1t is a living threat to the lives of workers of
every land. The A. +. of l.. leaders plan to be
the recruiting agents which inveigle American
workers into the trenches in and more ter
rible war. Do the American workers like that?
If not, let them speak so even Gompers may hear.
The A. F. of L. leaders plan to their in
fuence upon the careerists, such Trevino in the
Mexican confederation who seek to ride to power
lie, the lie they tell the Mexican workers that
Gompers is their friend and an enemy Of the
sausage empire" of the north. Gompers is recruit
ing "Gringos" to shoot them If the Mexican
workers do not like that let them speak so Trevino
may hear.
In Germany, Herr Grassman may have some
difficulty in convincing German workers that Com
pers is recruiting troops for purposes of brotherly
love- If German workers don't believe it, let them
speak so Herr Grassman may hear, even across the
Atlantic.
In lei Paso, if possible in Juarez if it can be
done, or in Mexico City if humanity attainable, al
demonstration should be made in support of the
proposal of the Trade Union Educational League,
that all organized labor should unite in a struggle
against imperialist ventures and for national free
dom and independence.