The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-05
The Greatest Failure
i'm Labor History

! Latin-American countries the labor
movement is only in its infancy and
sometimes delegates come here from
organizations having only a doubtful
| existence"
Discuss Erecting Lighthouse to
/ Columbus!
/ EXCEPT for the usual meaningless
IL resolution about sending out Or
| ganizers, the only Constructive labor
proposals" adopted were those recon-
mending to some Latin-American
governments the establishment of a
department of Labor and the one
suggesting that all governments add
labor attaches to their diplomatic and
consular staffs abroad. Discussion
on the department of Labor PROPOSE
ton proved a contentious one. 1t
seemed that some delegates"
thought that Santo Domingo, for in
stance, should not have Department
of Labor, but Department of Labor
and immigration! Discussion on this
matter ragged so hot as to equal al
most the discussion on the proposal
to collect funds for a lighthouse and
monument to be erected somewhere in
Latin America in memory of Column
bus.
Leadership Betrays Workers
IN the face of actual trade-union
struggle the Pan-American Fedora
ton of Labor evinces the same atti-
tude of quiet sabotage as displayed
in its convention resolutions. During
the past three years there have been
important strikes in many countries
Of North, South and Central Ameri-
ca, but the Pan-American Federation
Of Labor has turned its back on them.
The executive committee cannot point
to a single struggle of the workers
which it has assisted in any way
turnout the period Of its existence.
THE "Pan-American Federation of
Labor" as at present controlled,
can never accomplish anything in the
interests of the workers of the Amer
icas.
Pleading thru any one of tire long
IN reports of the executive committee
Of the "Pan-American Federation of
Labor" you get the impression that
its conception of international labor
action is for Mr.. William Green to
write polite letters to the President
Of the United States or some other
government official and receive polite
letters in return.
Latin Workers Smell Rat in
p. A. of La Skunk.
rs it any wonder then that neither
William Green, nor Samuel Com
pers before him, has been able to al
lay the suspicious of the great mass
Of organized workers of Latin Amer
lea as to what the purpose of the
Pan-American Federation of Labor
really is? Is 1t any wonder that, ex-
cept for the Mexican Confederation
of Labor, not one of the basic labor
organizations of Latin America has
been willing to send even an observer
to Mr.. Green's or Mr.. Gompers' con-
ventions ? Is it any wonder that the
so-called Pan-American Federation
OF Labor does not include the labor
declarations of Argentina, of Chile, of
Uruguay? Is it any wonder that
while two handpicked delegates from
non-existent organizations in Peru
come to the Washington convention
the bona-ffde Peruvian unions STAY
away? is 1T any wonder that Cuba
which has relatively strong and ex-
perlenced trade-union movemen
should be represented only by dele.
gates from one union in part of one
industry, and those delegates agents
Of President Machado, the bloody
Wall Street-owned Cuban dictator?
IS it any wonder that the Pan-Amer.
lean Federation of Labor is fraud
and fake?
AZ the 1921 convention of the Pan.
"A American Federation of Labor
eight countries were represented or
paper. At Washington in 1927, mine
countries were represented" also on
paper. In both cases it was manifest
that except for the Mexican Confede.
ration of Labor, the P. A. F, of |,
is non-existent in Latin Ameri.
ca as far as trade-union affiliatior
or action is concerned. The only diff
ference is that in 1927 most of tn,
delegates claiming to represent Cen.
trail America and the West Indie.
have been exposed as takers or gov
eminent agents.
THE Greens and the Wolls cannot
! build an All-American Federation
| of Labor that amounts to anything.
Peruvian Leader Jailed; Takers Al
Conference.
As / was writing the colsing para
"A graph of this article letter cam,
to me from Peru bearing the new.
that Octavio Vargas Montjoy, secre
tary of the Federation of Labor o,
Lima (ths only labor federation il
the country has been arrested BY
order Of President Leguia and hi,