The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09
No Class Documents Of
Labor in Sight at This
Years A. F. of L. Meeting
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

A TLANTIc CITY, NJ To-day, flood of fervd patriotism
sweeps thru the annual convention Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, II LaFoIete launching another
Back to TO-" campaign
Turning their backs the future the officials SPELL
bind about "revalzng the U. S. constitution and the
declaration of independence reaching climax President
Green's excited utterance I'VE love country We love
tons Such love hath no labor official ever shown for the
capitalist state that ensave the working class for which he
is supposed to speak.
1t is coincidence that while the delegates were thus
heavng their bosoms in star panged banner protestatons
that extracts from numerous letters of George Washington
were being published showing just what kind of the
father Of his country" happened to have BEEN
For instance the who supposed to have laid the
basis of American Institutions thru leading the armies of the
colonies victorious against Great Britain is revealed
shoddy arstocrat not only dser of whskey but also
seller of it, while those who talk Of humane warfare
day, may learn that Washington trying make killing
respectable even $50 years ago.
Washington aristocrat; claim the richest
of his time Stakeholder and lord Of which
it shown he secured thru questionable sharp methods
he did not like to see his women folk marry beneath their
unfit to wed into the Washington family atho he placed his
fortune at $4,000 The value of money athe time may be
Judged from the tact that even washington talked about
washing of the of friend whom he advised to go to
school at Andover Mass. with $4,000 under these
circumstances stood beneath the contempt of George WASH
ngton, it may we'll be judged how far below him he con-
sdered the ordinary workers of the tme many of whom
ensaved almost to the extent their black
brothers.
was common drunkard, call is sent in for the police
wagon. But the New York Times publishes letter show
ing how Washington hagged the purchase of 500 bar
reIs corn for his whsey distlery and then how he
hagges again in the sale Of the finished whskey product
since is evident that he could not drink all himself. So
successful Washingtons whiskey business that he
creased the output of his distIery from time to time
Washngton's efforts at humanzng war we're revealed
in letter he the British general Lord CORVALLIS,
from Camp Middlebrook June q 1777 in which he signs
himself Your Lordships Most Obedent Servant" de-
clarng lt is with infinite regret again compelled to
demonstrate against that spirit of wanton cruelty that has
in several instances influenced the conduct of your sodey
The incident the killing of an officer
private soldier and Washngtons appeal showed that he
felt himself pretty close to the British arstocracy that he
was supposed to be warning against most bitterly.
Washington made the fight of his day for his class
against the British government that had yet
learned govern its colonies cIevery does today
Washngtons class made of the great landlords the
merchants and professional class of his day. Out of this
ruling class of the 18th century has grown the capitalist
ruling class of today, the 10th century Washington and
Hancock and Jefferson and all the the declaration
of independence and the constitution promote their class
interests and the capitalist class Of today has appropriated
those documents to protect their class interests.
This the working class of the United States will learn,
the officials of the American Federation of Labor do
The workers will then begin writing class documents of their
upon which build their future class struggles
class hopes There such class documents sight
this convention of the A. F. of L.