The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17

10000, is affiliated with the p. A. F. L.
Guatemala has no labor paper, but it
sent two delegates to the last PAIL.
convention. These were seated not as
full Pledged delegates but merely as
fraternal delegates on the ground that
the labor movement in Guatemala is
still too weak to deserve complete re-
presentation. The real reason, how
ever, was that the two young deleg-
ates were known to be dissatisfied
with the reactionary Gompers ma
chine.
The P. A. F. L. claims bigger game
when it lists among its members Co
lombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
The last three have never sent a de-
legate to any PAFL. convention,
nor have any Of them ever contri-
buted cent to the support of the
P. A. f. l..
ECUADOR has a population Of
- 100000 of which three quarters
are pure Indians and the rest chiefly
mestizoS with small fraction of
whites. 1t has several labor fedora
tons. One of them is the Federation
del Trabajo" with headquarters in
Guayaquil. 1t claims a membership of
800. Another is the Federation de
Sindicatos", also with Headquarters
in Guayaquil. A third is the COME
deracion Obrera Ecuatoriana", with
headquarters in the capital Quito
and a membership claimed to be 20, 900.
Only the last of these declared its
affiliation with the'P. A. F. L. However
it has never sent a delegate to any of
the conventions or contributed a cent
to the treasury Of the p A. f. L. None
of the three declarations of Ecuador is
Of national Importance. Efforts have
recently been made to unite them into
one general federation to be known
as Federation de Trabajadores Re
gional Ecuatoriana", but with no de-
finite results so far.
Colombia, with a population of g.
100000, has no general labor fedora
ton. However there are a number of
unions and socialist groups in the
country. These socialist groups pub
lish eight or nine papers, and are
united in loose federation known as
the "Directorio Executive NacionaI
Socialist"
The "Directoria" is a purely politi.
cal organization and in no sense a
labor union; nevertheless it is listed
as one of the affiliated members of the
P. A. F. L. In addition Colombia is re-
presented in the P. A. F. L. by the
"Sindicato Centrale Obrero de Bogo-
Ia" Central Labor Union of Bogota)
However, the P. A. F. L. Ietterhead
omits the word Bogota, SO that due
to that little omission, the title reads
as if it were the central labor body
for the whole of Colombia.
AT the last P. L. congress. Co
lombia was represented by one deleg-
ate who supplied the only amusing
incident throughout the entire dull
proceedings. He proposed that a Pan
American merchant marine be Great
ed and operated by the p. A. FL. with
money raised by a weekly contribu-
ton Of one cent from every member
of every union affiliated with the p A
L. Though the delegates had come
all the way from Colombia for the
express purpose of submitting this
proposal, it was turned down amidst
laughter OF the convention.
THO Peru also appears on the mem
bership list of the P. A. FL. it has
never sent delegate to any con-
vention or contributed to the fedora
tons support. Peru has several labor
declarations. One of them, the Centre
International Obrero de Peru" has
joined both the p. A. f. L. and the
Amsterdam International. In 1921 it
claimed $4,000 members. It is not,
however, strictly a labor federation
but largely body of representatives
from various local mutual benefit
societies. The only labor papers nuh-