The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-24
Recognize the Workers Republic

THERE many reasons why the demand should
grow in the United States for the recognition of
the Union of Soviet Republics. Among these are:
(1) The growing recession in industry creating an
increasing army of unemployed; (2) The growing
trade war necessitating the hunt for new markets;
90 The large amount of capital available for export
(4) The continuing agricultural crisis (5) The fav-
orable report of the American trade union delegation
that has been visiting the Soviet Union; (6) The
favorable reports made by multitude of trade union
delegations visiting the Soviet Union from other
countries; % The continuous stream of favorable
reports concerning conditions in the Soviet Union
made by returning business men, politicians. college
professors and members of student delegations.
(S) The indsputable development of Soviet industry
and agriculture, resulting in the gradual lifting of
the standard of living of Russian workers and peas
ants.
There are others. Those presented do not appear
in the order of their Importance. That order is
dictated by the viewpoint of the individual consider
ing this question.
TT is important to discuss this question of '"The
Recognition of the Soviet Union" on the eve OF
the annual convention of the American Federation
of Labor, since some workers may be m1sIed by the
attitude this question of the delegates now gather
ing in Los Angeles, California.
Tt NAV be stated now that few, if any, delegates
to the A. F. of L. convention will raise their voices
in favor of recognition. If recognition resolution
comes before the convention it is certain that 1t will
be fought bitterly, with the arguments coined by
Samuel Gompers during the declining years OF his
presidency, and adopted by the regime OF Pres
ident William Green and Vice President Matthew
Woll
Even in 1921 and 1922 when workers. crganiza-
tions with membership of over 100000 endorsed
the program of the Committee for the Recognition
Cor how on n
head of the foreign relations committee of the
United States senate, and William H. Johnston, pres
dent of the international Association of Machlnlsts,
supported this committee and spoke from its plat
form it will be remembered that Samuel Gompers
was the spearhead of the American capitalist gov
ernments attack against the Workers Republic.
When Senator Borah provided for hearing before
his senate committee the question of Soviet Rec
ognition, it was Samuel Gompers and his lackeys
like William English Walling, Chester Wright, John
Spargo and other renegade socialists who came into
the committee burdened down with documents to
show why the government of the employers in this
country should not give recognition to the govern
ment of the workers and peasants in Russia.
PRESIDENT GREEN, at the Detroit convention of
L the A. F. of L. last year stated the for the
American labor reaction and for American capital
ism as follows
"At the moment there stands mpregnable
barrier between the working people of the govern
ment of that country (the Soviet Union) and the
American Federation of Labor. There must come
a psychological change, a change in the viewpoint of
those who embrace the philosophy followed by the
peoples of that great country (the Soviet Union)
before we think of establishing co-opera-
tive relations between them and the American Fed
Grafton of Labor When they (the workers of
the Soviet Union) embrace philosophy that is so
antagonisc to the philosophy embraced and followed
by the American Federation of Labor, then it would
be waste of time and effort to attempt to reconcile
our conditions"
In support of it's position the A. F. of L. official
dom adopts as it's own every falsehood spread by
the Ccolidge-Kellogg department of state at Wash
ington thus giving added testimony that it is a
sharp claw of the American imperaist bird of prey
It is well to remember however, that the A. F.
of L. reaction is not the American working class.
it is not even the American Federation of Labor.
Returning idleness in industry, in 1921
o. viii cause American workers to think upon
the problem of keeping the wheels of industry turn