The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-06
Open Shoppers Put an
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"Nonpartisan" olicy
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

TODAY savos of applause from big business from the
shoppers from the Of the capitalist foe arises
everywhere in unstnted appreciation of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor ocadcns return to its nonpartsan po
tica policy of other years.
the Lands open shop plan in the building trades prooams
with great approval that Sobery and sedatey labor will
walk the path which it formerly followed to its exceeding
profit
If labor gained anything thru the "nonpartisan policy
forced it by the conpers regime, then the journal Of
Commerce would be the first to denounce it.
the nonparisan policy had proved the gigantic
that is now again claimed for it, Sam Compers its chief
apostle would have jumped the LaFoete camp last
year in his desperate fight maintain his grip on the labor
movement
is of sterIy of this policy aiding
workers that makes i 50 beloved BY the journal Of Com
is because the A. F. of l. offcaIdom believes that
scape up few crumbs thru this beIycawng policy that
it avors it, just all the industrial policies of the F. of l.
chiefs drawn to cater to the Whms Of the expoites
rather than challenge the open struggle and
win thru the organized might OF class power
The journal of Commerce to console itself with the
belief that mot for many and many year will again join
in third party movement" That is hoping lot
With the continued open shop" against labor, with
wage cuts developing everywhere with increasing COMPETE
ton with ensIaved workers abroad Dawes plan
sutng growing army of unemployed in this country the
struggle will increasingly grow only for third party
labor officials may find soft seat but for independent
political action of the workers. resulting in class party of
labor.
In the effort to win support for their latest backward move
William Green Matthew WoI "Strikebreaker" Tom Rckert
and the other members of the executive council of the
of L. will argue for immediate victories" Capitalist propa-
ganda in politics for working class consumption bends
same direction for immediate success" The LaFoIette
movement last year dubbed failure because was not
crowned with immediate victory The attack on the
Labor Party, charging it is foreign American insttu-
tons and can't win the argument goes. And in this
same issue of the journal Of Commerce. it is claimed
and independent people like ours is rrevocaby against
Soviet ideas of CONTROL slee-
Against this sapper propaganda that no existence in
fact the workers must be taught that the building Of
class power may be slow and tedious process but is the
only successful means of reaching goal Workers know
that when the bosses to praise the Industrial policies
their unions then there something wrong that the class
collaboration disease has set in. The reasoning holds
true when the open shop interests look with favor upon
political line laid down by the union bureaucracy.
The traitor in the organized labor be spotted
by the favor that he finds in the eyes of the bosses
The bosses look with favor in the A. F. of LIS nonpart
SAN policy because it is treason the whole working class