The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-12
How American FEEDER
alton OfLabor Officials
Bully Mexican Labor
The Foreign Policy Executive CouncFoowng the Lead
of the State Labor Relations
Purifying" Mexican Labor-Immigration and Political
Refugees-The United Front of Capital and Labor
in the Pan-American Commercial Conference
-Wolrs Great "Victory"-The Cloak of
Democracy
BY WILLIAM F. dunno.

| IN the field Of international rela-
lions the executive council of the
| American Federation of Labor shows
it's real colors.
It's relations with the international
Federation of Trade Unions follow
almost exactly the policy of the state
department toward the league of ma
tions. Just as Wall Streets state de-
partment maintains connection with
/ the league of nations thru the at
/ tendance of ENJOYS at the various
/ conferences held under league au-
spices and observers" who attend
| the league sessions, SO the A. F. OF
| l.. executive maintains contact with
! the IF.T.U., seeks to mold its course
! to conform to A. F. of L. policy and
unites with it, as does the depart
ment with the league, against left
wing and revolutionary movements.
VARIOUS affiliated international
unions, Machinists, United Mine
Workers, etc. are allowed to affiliate
with the respective internationals Of
the IFT.U., but the correspondence
between Green and Oudegeest, secre-
tary of the I.F.T.U., was referred to
the Los Angeles convention without
recommendation.
If and when Wall Street govern
ment joins the league of nations, the
A. F. of L. will become part of the
IFT.U.--a dominant part.
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y Dor, A. F. of l.. officialdom
exercises continual pressure-as Wall
Street government does upon the
Mexican government. -
Nine pages of the executive coun-
Gil report arc devoted to Latin Ameri-
can relations. Most of this space is
devoted to detailing the process by
which the A. F. of L. leadership is
making the policy Of the Mexican Ia
/ Dor movement conform to A. F. Of
L. requirements.
/ IN August 6, of this year, con-
" ference of representatives of the
two declarations met in Washington
D. c., and arrived at the following
agreement:
1. That the Mexican government
be petitioned to adopt restrictive
policy, and if necessary, to enact
legislation to that end, excluding all
peoples of oriental birth or extrac-
tion
2. That consideration be given to
the exclusion or restriction of other
classes of immigrants deemed I'M
suitable TO THE MORAL, PHYS
ICAL, POLITICAL, AND ECON
OMIC INTEGRITY.
g. That the Mexican government
be petitioned to consider and tC
enact a restrictive emigration policy
WHICH, IN SUBSTANCE, SHALL
/ CONFORM TO THE IMMIGRATION
LAW REQUIREMENTS OF THE
UNITED STATES.
a. That the Mexican government
be petitioned to adopt a method Of
regulating emigration so as to give
full and complete enforcement to the
immigration policy herein recon,
mended.
IN return for this surrender of the
Mexican Federation of Labor, the
representative of the A. F. of L
agreed to continue to allow Mexican
workers to come into the United
States without the quota restrictions
which apply to other countries.
Point Two of the agreement puts
the Mexican labor movement OF
record against political refugees Of
all kinds and is designed to set the
minds of American imperialists, in
Guiding the executive council of the
A. f. of L., at ease by preventing
workers prosecuted by European gov
ernments finding an asylum in Mexico
and Perhaps continuing in that coun
try activity in behalf of the working
class-which might have repercus
sions in the United States.
. This is the crux Of the whole ques
ton and the other three points of tn,
agreement are intended to strengthen
, Point Two.
, TT is clear that the A. f. of L. exec
utive council gives its purely nomina
/ support to the Mexican labor move
/ nIent only on condition that it aban
don what remnants of revolutionar.
. integrity it still possesses.
I'm reporting on the Pan Americal
Federation of Labor convention, tn
executive council gives further evi
dence Of its malign influence upol
the Mexican or-movement. In tn,
! resolution submitted to the conven
,, tion by the A. F. of L. delegation, ant
adopted under its pressure, there il
a-complete reputation of the interna
tional character Of the labor move
ment and a declaration of hostility t.
internationalism
Ut is the Monroe Doctrine of Ameri
can Labor" that is put forward il
such statements as: 6. we pledg,
ourselves severally and jointly to re
sist with all of the vigor and resource,
at our command any and every at
tempt on the part of some other la
Dor movement to interfere openly Of
/, eovorfIxy with our affiliated arOapiz