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Federation of Labor done to counteract these i'm
peralist policies of the American capitalist class?
What policies and concrete acts have the VOLS
and Greens produced to stop the offensive of the
employers?
1T is universally recognized that of the cardinal
tasks Of the American labor movement is the
ganizaton of the unorganized. Even the Greens
and VOLS feel compelled to render a certain amount
of lp-servce to this question But what has the
reactionary bureaucracy actually achieved in this
respect? What has become of the decision of the
Detroit convention to initiate organization cam
paign among the automobile workers? The answer
Isl Nothing, because the bureaucracy never took
seriously that decision. The only genuine efforts
made in that direction have come from the Auto
mobile Workers Union of Detroit which is an organ
ization independent of the A. F. of L.
The organization of the unorganized is at present
the acid test for true loyalty to the American work.
ing class. And the reactionary bureaucracy of the
A. F. of l. despite its official protestatons, takes
it's position on this question the side of the
ployers and against the workers. This fact was
conclusively demonstrated in the Passaic strike
where the organization campaign carried
through by the left wing and progressives in the
face of the most damnabe opposition and sabotage
of the official bureaucracy
For a period of several years the Communists
and the left wing have been warning the American
labor movement against the capitalistic ventures OF
the reactionary bureaucracy in the field of labor
banking insurance and real estate enterprises, etc
The answer of the bureaucrats was persecu-
ton of the left wing. Their capitalistic
schemes they represented as something which was
going to work miracles in the improvement of the
conditions of labor These labor banking PROPOSE
lions, together with the "New Wage Policy" were
heralded through the labor movement as the dis
covery of new path to working class freedom. 1t
was even styled: The Higher Strategy of Labor.
Ask the Locomotive Engineers. They'll tell you.
Theirs is one of the Oldest and most powerful
unions. 1t was the bureaucracy of the B. of L. E.
that was first to start labor banking and other
capitalist schemes and to develop them on the
grandest scale What happened as a result would
take book to tell, but the outstanding fact is that
this powerful union has been brought to a most
dangerous condition by the failures, corruption, in
competence and capitalistic ventures of the champ
ions of labor banking and the so-called Higher
Strategy of Labor.
In the momentous question of Imperialism mill
tarism and war the reactionary bureaucracy fol-
flowed the lead and supported the policies of the
capitalist class The last congress of the Pan-Ame-
rican Federation Of Labor offers brilliant illustra
ton Of this point. Woll and Green once more de-
monstrated their loyalty TO American imperialism
by defending the domination of Wall Street in
Latin America, by shielding the murderous acts of
the American marines in Nicaragua, by crushing
the opposition of several Latin American delegates
to the outrages of the American imperialists in
those countries, ETC.
The hostile attitude of the VOLS and Greens to-