The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
1t Is Treason for the
AT. of. Officialdom to
Associate with Traitors
MLLIAM GREEN, president Of the American Federation
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

ATLLAM GREEN president of the American Federation
w of Labor the last annual convention in Atlantic City,
got purple the and nearly broke blood vessels
laundering against nsdous propaganda crossing the At
pathways. To be sure, Green's mighty believing all
against Moscow the Communist International the Red In
ternaona of Labor Unions Green insisted that all Boshe-
v ideas be kept of the American labor movement
that must remain loyal to Gompers deas-to the Gompes
philosophy.
Green has proved again, however, that he does OBJ
ec the employers propaganda that the At
alone in the reception given the sere delegation of German
labor officials, champions of the DawesMorgan plan, who
visited this country but is revealed clearer than in the
heated bothey embrace bestowed by the whole executive
council Of the A. of l., upon selected labor delegation"
touring this country under the direction Of Lord Rother
mere's Daily Mail with all expenses paid by this anabor
sheet
Two facts damn this delegation hostile to Iabors in
terests, both in England and this country The British
For any worker to give support to or help develop the pres
tge of capitalist publication like the Daily Mail to dagger
ao0rs own day i the back But LORD Rotnsmeres Day
succeeded the position held by the late Lord North
clie the Hearst Of Great Britain who owned multitude
OF catch penny publications as we'll as the London Times
semofcia organ of the British government This deega-
ton is in way representative Of British labor.
is not impossible to find workers. on all occasions who
will scab against the working class The tabor delegation
sent here by Lord Rothermeres Daily Mail be
sidered otherwise than ke-breaking outfit Instead
of treating such however, the executive council of the
A. F. of L. in session at the American Federation of Labor
"So"4 WoSn"iStOI' o"OioHy IeCeNeu NOtHSI-
mere's outfit which in turn banquetted President Green
and his fellow officials the Hotel Mayower Washingtons
biggest and most luxurious hotel The labor delegation of
eight did pay for the banquet That of
Lord Rothermere's money dipped from his many millions,
getting in its work. because this delegation is returning to
Great Britain the of May 1st to aud the conservatism
of American labor, and plead with the British workers
to press too energecay their demands against the mine
the railroad and other oques of capitalists
with whom labor in the British Isles has old to
SETTLE Thus the A. F. of L. ofcadom allows itself to be
used directly the side of the antabo open shop" Brit
sh employers That is where the anti-mitant cass-col-
liberation policy of Green's administration directly leads
1t is doubtful If Compers would have stopped so low.
The conservative British labor leaders, with whom Compers
hobnobbed grudgngy give their support the London
Daily Herald and certainly cannot countenance the fake
labor delegation that Rothermere's Daily Mail has sent
here. In fact the British labor officially
record in the Anglo-Russan Trade Union Unity negoa-
tons, cooperating with the Russian unions in developing
the world solidarity of labor that Green opposes energetic
ally 1t was not Russian labor spokesman that Green
tackled at the last A. F. of l. convention but Arthur A.
CELL the official representative of and aterna delegate
the British Trade Union Congress.
British labor denounces 1.-THE delegation of eight now
in the United States mission of treason to the British
labor movement The A. F. of l. executive council which
with these traitors In the hour refuses to come to
the assistance of the 10000 striking textile workers at Pas
sac New Jersey The Green bureaucracy commits treason
to American labor in the hour that associates with
to labor from the In that alone consistent
American labor must against such tatorous leader
ship.