The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-05
Raise Glass Struggle
Standards Against This
Nonpartisan Betrayal
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the oHiciadom Of the American Federation of
Labor stands recommtted to its worm-eaten nonPartsan
political policy In following LaFoette last year wandered
just little from its reward our friends and punish our
enemies position held for years under the leadership Of
capitalist parties alone fighting all attempts OF the workers
at class political action. ossseeo
But gone are days when this policy of political class
collaboration can be put with mpunty Gone with the
death of Gompers Gone with the passing of gillette!
Gone with the wrecing of the hope to which American
labor has oung that something good can come
tain some so-caIed good men,: hW
Five million men and women mostly workers. voted for the
Observation-Disclosures progressive ticket last year because
they thought break with the republican and demo-
cratic parties There to be deal of kind.
Instead of building their labor party the
duped into accepting this buesque of bourgeois third party
Today these workers stand dslusoned They must make
the next move They will not all go backward.
The announcement of the A. F. of l. bureaucracy that
quick the heels of the declaration Of LaFoee J
he wants take the place Of his father republican senator
from Wisconsin, Both moves indications that their spon
feel the will forget and their serfdom
in the political citadels Of the capitalist foe
The whole political development since last Novembers
election has shapened the cleavage between labor and capt.
tai in the arena OF politics The twilight that might have
been presented by third party has been swept away VIII
liam Green, the present head of the A. F. of L. democrat
like Sam Compers before him. is trying vany to call into
being another such twilight in the of
nonpartsan policy This political strategy appealed
to the workers in the cities and the poor farmers got their
TIL OF IT in the betrayal: Of the nonpartisan League
The fight Of the rank file the unions against class
collaboration policies and their instructive revolt against
expulsion suspension discipline of mitants sufficient
indication that the workers do intend readopt
grading role of meek lambs in the orepeated labor tragedy
OF The Lion and the Lamb in which the and the lamb
supposed to lie down together peace harmony
cordg to the best precpts of the National Civic Federation
The experience has always been that the lamb has been
found inside the on the workers betrayed to their exploit
Jers This is what William Green and Matthew Wo and
others OF the A. F. of l. executive council which also includes
T. Rcke head of the United Garment Workers of Amer
ica that is leading the stkebreakers against the Aaga
mated Clothing Workers strike in Chicago trying to do
in the political struggle.
Rckerts scabbng in the industrial now raging In Chi
Cages clothing industry that received condemnation of
the Chicago Federation of Labor is typical of the political
scabbey espoused by the A. F. of lis political
policy. r
Against the cass-colaboraon of their officials the work.
es and farmers will raise the standards of the class
struggle more vigorously than Against the endorse
men OF good men on the democratic republican tickets
the energetic fight for the labor party ensng the broadest
masses OF those who toll those whose sufferngs are in
capitalists w ~
The readoption of its discarded nocv
by the A. F. of l. ocialdom, is challenge to American or
gained workers that Will be answered quickly by closing of
ranks N the class tight against all Iabors oppressors