The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-24
BY WILLIAM F. dunno.
ARTICLE

Mfe1 II Tue ueCdy OF bllLlSnF luuuS
w trial and financial supremacy &C
companied by the rise of the revolu
tionary consciousness in the ranks OF
the working class and the stabilize
ton of German economy under the
Dawes plan, the Second Information
al, as zinoviev remarks, moves its
headquarters back to the German
speaking country.
1t is Wall Street and all the i'm
mense power which the name signi
fies that is forcing sterilization in
western Europe.
1t is not surprising therefore, to find
that at Atlantic City the convention
of the American Federation of Labor
sought and found new orientation
to correspond with the new develop.
ments in the field of American imper.
ialist enterprise in Europe.
IRON Portland to Ell Paso to At
4 lantic City the officialdom Of the
American trade union movement has
been trying to follow policy consist
ent with its position as the labor
agents of Wall Street.
At Portland, after a year of prepar-
alton, it dramatized its opposition to
Soviet Russia, the Communist Inter
national and the growing left wing by
the unseating of William F.. Dunno,
Communist member of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers.
At Ell Pasos thea. F. of L. extend
ed its pro-imperialist front, procured
the expulsion of Communists from the
Mexican labor movement, debauched
and betrayed that movement and turn
ed it over to its Wall Street masters.
At Ell Paso Also was manifested the
first sign of friendliness for the So
cial-democratic trade union leaders Of
Germany.
DUT it was at Atlantic City that
II the A. F. Of L. was able to grasp
clearly the world policy of Wall
Street and align itself definitely with
it. 1t is for the German reformist
unions whose leaders accept and en-
force the Dawes plan and wars on
Soviet Russia that the A. f. of l.. now
feels kinship. 1t is true that the re-
lations are those of a stern father to
an erring son, rather than that of
brotherhood, but this is beautifully
consistent with the role of the A. F.
of L. as the labor outpost of Ameri-
can Imperialism.
To understand the full significance
of this new alignment we must re-
call some of the incidents which
marked the winning of American la.
Dor for the Morgan-Wilso crusade to
make the world safe for democracy"
LNOR year the Germans had been a
i powerful influence in the American
trade unions and not only a powerful
influence but, with their advocacy of
labor in politics and with some of the
traditions of AS and '73 remaining, an
influence for good. In many centers
the German emigrants had been the
organizers of the trade unions.
With the war all this was changed
Gompers' latent nationalism, always
inclined more to the pure and simple
trade unionism of Great Britain, fitted
in well with the wave of hatred
aroused against the -"horrid Huns.
Everything German, including Ger
man trade unionists and German
trade unionism, was cast into the
outer darkness.
THERE were no more uncompromis-
L ing haters of the German social
democrats and their unions that the
bureaucrats Of the A. F. of L. The
whole machinery of the unions be-
came spy-hunting agency under the
direction of the department of justice
and the army intelligence service and
woe unto any union man with Ger
man name who even opined that wag-
es were a little too low in comparison
with the mounting living costs. He
was very lucky IL he escaped lynch
ing.