The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-23

" SHoW CHdC DuuenZ is scarlet.
The full letter follows:
November Is, 1927.
Mr.. Gustave Geiges, president,
American Federation of Full Fash
Toned Hosiery Wkrs.' Union.
$3.50 N. Fourth St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Sir:
Inasmuch as you may not be study
ing radical activities quite as closeig
as the officials of this organization,
we believe it to be our duty to ad-
wise you that should you care to OBJ
tain copy of the DAILY Worker"
November IA, 1927, you will find an
article on international Labor De-
fense"-conference held in New York
last week.
According to The DAILY WORK
Err, before the international De-
Tense" conference adjourned, they
elected new National Committee,
and on this committee you will find
the following individuals:
l. William H. Foster.
2. Robert W. Dunn.
3. Albert Weisbord.
a. Max Bedacht.
5. Benjamin Gitlow.,
6. Robert Minor.
| 7. Earl Browder.
8. James P. Cannon (Secy. Inter
national Labor Defense).
9. William F. Dunn.
Mr. Robert W. Dunn, co-worker
and close associate of Louis Francis
Budenz, editor of the Labor Age, must
be proud of the position he occupies
in this particular organization so
closely allied to the leading radicals
in America, all of whom are members
of the Central Executive Committee
of the American Workers. Communist
Party!
Considering the facts already SUBJ
mitted, could it be possible that Bu-
denz might have an Interior motive
IN assisting your union in organizing
the hosiery workers in the different
plants? The American Workers
(Communist) Party officially en-
dorses the International Labor De-
tense. In fact, leading Communist.
j. p. Cannon, is executive secretary
OF the international Labor Defense.
A fine combination!
May we take this occasion to in
form you (Which we neglected to do
in our communication of November
y that we forwarded copy (and it
is our intention to adopt this same
procedure with respect to all of our
communications with you touching
upon these subjects of common inter
est to the labor unions) of the COM
munication submitted to you under
date of November 7th to President
Green of the American Federation of
Labor, and President Mcmahon of the
United Textile Workers of America.
Very truly yours,
(Signed) A. R. MCDONALD, Inc.
President.
P. S.-"1f you play with fire, you
must" :. what was the cd adage?
Macdonald, hoping to scare Mr..
Geiges, picked out certain membersf
OF the international Labor Defense
who are known to be Communists
He failed to mention other members
of the board who might not have
alarmed the Full Fashioned Hosiery
head. Had he chosen to he might
also have mentioned as members on
the National Executive Committee of
the |. L. D. such liberals as Upton
Sinclair, Prof. Robert Morss Lovett.
Clarence barrow, Edward C. Went
worth, Alice Stone Blackwell, Rev.
Robert Whitaker, Prof. H. w. L.
Dana, Jessica Henderson, Rev. David
R. Williams, Prof. Ellen Hayes of
Wellesley and Andrew T. Mcnamara.
But this would have ruined his arpu-
ment that the l. L. D. is 100 per cent
"made in Moscow"
Aids Green.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor and
Thomas F. MacMahon, president of
the United Textile Workers of Amer
lea, who are referred to in the letter.
have been receiving frequent COM
munications from Macdonald in his
efforts to assist them in their "war
on radicals" The letter of Nov. TIN
referred to above is the letter printed
in The DAILY WORKER of Nov. 18.
1927. MacMahon has been in confer
ence with Macdonald in company
with Ralph Easley, secretary of the
National Civic Federation, as pointed
out in yesterdays DAILY WORKER,
MacMahon certainly wants no
Reds" in his union. His record is