The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-25

welcomed the First American Trade Union Delegation Sunday
afternoon probably expressed better than anything else said
there both the spirit of the meeting itself and the vivid impression
brought back by the delegation of nation of 14000000 march
ing steadily toward socialism.
The greetings of the unions of Union
100000 strong conveyed by the delegation spokesman the
American labor movement The Madison Square Garden meeting
itself huge mcrophone thru which went out to the Amer
working Glass; statements by responsible members of the
trade union movement and economists of international epue
which will give the American Masses revolutionary and
therefore fully correct of the role and achievements of
the proetaran revolution but the view of the
communist trade unons of that section of the American trade
union movement which not entirely and not consciously sub
merged in the theology American Imperialism In this
lies the real value Of the trade union delegations repor
azes the working class opinion of that section of the American
workers who while still subject the which must be
convinced fer ten year) of the need international solidarity
with the proeran revolution in another country nevertheless
talist class.
resolution adopted by the meeting was the
national section of the revolutionary proetarat speaking
another section in the front trench of the revolutionary
gle 1t rather expression of the liberal view of not
conscious of the international revolutionary of the worlds
working class but refusing to support this period the efforts
Imperialism to crush section OF the working class which
carrying out that role.
The American working class is still under the influence of
the capitalist class accepting that class ideoogy Nevertheless
American workers understand such statements the fol-
lowing:
Dneperstro the second largest electric power station
Europe talked about by the engineers quarter
century and built by the Bolshevks in five years."
Or Russia is gaining in industrial efficiency than
any old world nation"
Again There and there capitalists take
away from the workers what they produce"
Such facts explain why is that audience
be told told Sunday that with conviction could
not overlook the Russian workers told they intend to defend
their government from any and all enemies
adoption resolution urging recognition without
dissenting voice being raised the immense meeting
an But far important than this dramatic it
is the
understanding of the meaning and achievements of the Russian
Revolution the of important sections of the American
movement and the start OF to bring the Amer
lean and Soviet Union closer to another
The that thousands of American workers epuate
the hostile attitude the American of the agents
of the capitalist class in leading positions in the labor
that from their ranks has responsible delegation
which, this ISSUE challenges both the outright mperast
gram OF the American and the of the do
nant official trade union bureaucracy which apes pro-
gram is laid down by the imperialists in Washington.
We that the reports could be made to the
labor movement in all decisive industrial made
New York Sunday that not only will recognition become major
political issue in the trade union movement but that the rank
and file of the labor movement will take place the battaons
OF the world proarian which determined that the Soviet
Union the first workers and peasants republic world
orous for ten in the face of all of mperasms might
shall be defended and long enemies
allowed to live and the hope inspiration and living
ample of proletaran power.
The Madison Square meeting in New York can very
well epoch in American labor HISTORIAN epoch in
which those trade union leaders who base their policy that
American Imperialism will discover that the impact of the
ample and proud attanmens of the working class republic born
the fires of revolution break the wall reaction which
they have built around the American labor movement