The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-05
LOvESTONE= POINTS OUT GROWTH or
STATE power IN U. S.; CALLS CAL.
COOLIDGE STRIKEDREAKER : IN CHIEF.

length. Here was a case where the
prestige of the capitalist class as a
class, not only in relation to the eX-
plotted workers of this country, but
it's relation to ruling classes of other
nations was involved in various ways.
He who expected justice OF mercy in
any abstract sense and had illusions
as to what the ruling class of Ameri-
ca would do, was not basing, his per-
/ spectives on an analysis of class re-
lations, was not basing his Judge
ment on a sound analysis of the OBJ
jective conditions. When we view the
Sacco-Vanzetti case, we must view it
dialectically. We must not only see
the terror, the brutality of the bour-
geoisie; we must see the other side Of
1.-THE radicalizing forces of the
Sacco-Vanzetti case. The Sacco-
/ Vanzetti case is one of the most
powerful radicalizing forces that has
yet been developed in the working
class in our country. Our Party
faces a major task in being able to
develop such tactics as will make us
respond to these conditions and util-
ize this protest by developing it from
vague protest into a conscious
revolutionary sentiment for the de-
struction of the oppressors of the
workers.
III.-The Labor Movement.
NOW the labor movement-in the
~ last three or four years there
has been a change in the composition
of the trend of the working class.
During the war the trend was for
the development Of a homogeneous
working class in America. Immigra-
ton was shut off. The gap between
the unskilled and semi-skilled work
ers on the one hand and the skilled
workers ON the other hand was being
decreased. In the last five years the
trend has more and more gone the
other way, particularly in the last
two and a half years. The gap be-
tween the skilled and unskilled work
ers in America has not been decreas-
ing but on the contrary increasing.
Never before in the history of this
country has the gap in wages be-
tween certain sections of the highly
skilled workers and unskilled work
ers been so great as today. Figures
can be presented showing this par
ticularly clearly in such basic indus
tries as the steel industry. Insofar
as immigration is concerned, though
there are restrictions, there is con-
siderable "bootleg" immigration, So
called, despite the immigration bar
riers, to such an extent that the Com
missioner of immigration Hull says
there are in the U. S. at present two
and one-half million workers who
have entered this country in VIOLA
ton of the law,
This condition, together with the
objective economic conditions which
/ have given you is responsible for
the change for the worse in the trend
OF development of labor party. In
a certain period of the recent years,
the trend has been upward for a
labor party-in the last two years
the national trend has been down
ward. The reason for this is found
first in the objective conditions, Sec
ond in the change in the trend of the
development of the composition of
our working class.
Thirdly the labor movement is 60
ing to the right. When we speak
of the labor movement going to the
right We speak first of all of the
organized labor movement The
leadership of the A. F. of L. is not
only bankrupt, but diseased; not only
diseased but paralyzing in it's effect
ron the labor movement. Nobody can
overestimate the dangerous, the
harmful effect of this leadership on
our working class. Take the miners
strike. The miners union, once it
was the backbone of the A. F. of L.
once the most militant, biggest union
In the organized labor movement. We
have a mine strike today which is
paralysis, not strike And the sup
posed-to-be leaders of this strike are
the ones forcing this paralysis and
inactivity on the workers.
TAKE the Socialist Party of Amer
lea. 1t is not local matter that
Mr.. Judge Panl1in is offered the
nomination on the Republican ticket.
1t is not local matter that the Re
publican Party felt so sure that Pan
ken would accept that they withdrew
their own candidate The time has
come when the bourgeoisie are show
ing full faith, in the open, in the
5. P. as it is today.
The development of company
unionism-the increase in that direc-
ton tends in some ways to hasten
the welding of the bureaucracy with
the imperialists. Mr.. Green and the
A. F. of l.. executive council are &C.
cupying in my opinion a cabinet
without portfolio in the United
States cabinet. Their job is to say
yes to what the cabinet does. The
foreign policy of the A. F. of L. is
determined by the state department
in Washington.