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

candidate of Andy Mellon for the next election AS
once before he will suddenly proclaim himself
friend of labor.
ward the Soviet Union continues undated, the
that of the American capitalist class The dele
cation of American trade unionists to the Soviet
Union, which is at present on it's return trip home,
organized and proceeded to Russia in the face
of the most bitter attacks persecution and terror
ism of the reactionary trade union bureaucracy.
Wolf and Green have in this instance also served
their masters well.
And as to the political task of the American
working class the trade union reactionaries
tinue to hold the workers back from Independent
political action pressing instead for loyalty
and support to the capitalist parties.
Just recently Matthew Vol delivered himself once
more on the subject And what was his message to
American labor? No independent political action
No Labor Party the old futile and dscredited policy
of labor supporting the "best" candidates on the
tickets of the republican and democratic parties.
The reactionaries are following a consistent line
Having abandoned the policy of struggle against
the employers having adopted as their gospel the
policy of class collaboration (including the New
Wage Policy, Trade Union Capitalism, B. & o.
Plan, the Higher Strategy of Labor, etc.), the re
dictionaries vigilantly guarding against the
emergence of working class struggle on the political
field. Iitf
INSTEAD of fighting the employers the reaction
aries are devoting their energies to fighting the
militants and progressives in the labor movement
When the capitalists attack the workers Green and
Woll attack the left wing This is the sort of dvi-
sion of labor arrived at between the trade reaction
aries and the capitalists The dsgraceful attitude
OF Green and VOL in the case of Sacco and Van
Eetti two working class martyrs of capitalist class
vengeance, will be forgiven nor forgotten by
the American working class.
One of the outstanding achievements" Of the
Greenwich combination in the past year is it's vici-
GUS persecution of the left wing and progressives
IN the trade unions 1t is to the determination of
the militants in the labor movement that the reac
honaries are bending all their efforts. The trade
union reactionaries the same as the capitalists
seem to realize that in order to turn the working
class completely helpless the left wing must be
thoroughly crushed and exterminated
But this is not going to happen. The American
TABOR movement has already developed sufficient
consciousness, stamina and militancy to he ablo -
wiehstand even the combined attack of the capital
lsOs' thelr government and the reactonary bureau
crazy The danger lies in the vital djsintaoro+io
of the trade union movement sucb &c =; tLet.
Inc united Mine Workers. as a result of +b 49,
emery ana corruption of the bureaucracy Tho lof,
wing must therefore make the coming convention
81 the a. r. OF L. in Los Angeles the startino noint
,s.. Iiesh concentration of all the militant and
progressive forces in the labor movenoan+ - :I
the disastrous policies of the reactionor;o e'
SUI NE, optimism and militancv amono ~ -
10 " struggle against the capitalists to draw ;n+
Inc iaDor movement the millions of nnoroon ;5 80 ~
ueVeiop the political consciousness of tbe rooso
GU " move towards Labor Party, to prenaro tbe
workers Tor the growing war danoer and e. a.
oeIense of the Soviet Union TO bro.,, 49, VIZ
WIN the capitalist business ventures of 49, 10y
ii"iles 70 struggle against American ;n,nor;a,
ISM and mitarism and thus build q newell "a 81
Sto ot's"' "oiNing class movement in the United