The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-24
EDITORS NOTES
By ALEX BITTELMAN

THE ruling bureaucracy of the trade unions comes
- to the convention of the American Federation of
Labor with record of achievements" which may
be very pleasing to the American capitalists but
which must call forth disgust and resentment of
every honest working man and working woman The
treacherous game of collaboration with the employ
in which the Greens and Wolls are so fervently
engaged is working out splendidy in the interests
of the capitalists while at the time continuing
to sap the life of the trade unions and to weaken
the working class generally.
We would like to ask the following questions:
What has the class collaboration leadership of Wolf
and Green accomplished for the American trade union
movement since the Detroit convention of the A.
F. of L.? Where if at all, have the conditions of
labor been improved? What positive gains can labor
register a result of the "New Wage Policy" in
which William Green takes so much pride? Where
in has the position of the workers been strengthened
with respect to the employers consequent upon the
numerous ventures of the trade union bureaucracy
into socalled labor banking, insurance schemes real
estate enterprises, etc.?
A truthful to these questions would make
story of incompetence, failure and betrayal such
as would condemn forever the reactionary bureau
crazy in the eyes of every conscious and militant
worker.
TO secure clear picture of the exact position of
the American working class today it is necessary
to compare the position of the workers with that of
the employers 1t is essential to know what policies
with regard to labor the capitalist class is pursuing
and what have the capitalists achieved in this respect
And the to this question is that the American
capitalist class has continually strengthened its posi-
lions, has proceeded steadily the offensive against
the working class, forcing the workers and their
unions to retreat and still further retreat.
We are living in the age of Imperialism. And one
of the outstanding events in this of postwar i'm
peralism is the eergence of the American capitalist
class as the biggest and most powerful imperiaist
power in the world This is evidenced by the tremen-
dous accumulation, concentration and Capitalization
of capital, the growth of capitalist combines and
mighty trusts, the export of American capital
to all parts of the world unheard of SCALE the
consequent extension of the rule of American capital
into Latin America, China etc., the sharpening of
imperalist rvaries and the danger of fresh imperi
alist wars The exploitation of the American work
ers is becoming intensified.
The capitalist class of the United States is pro-
ceeding the offensive against the working class.
The wages of the millions of sem-skilled and I'M
skilled workers being kept at the lowest possible
level. Through spsed-up systems, company unions,
welfare schemes, etc., the employers are increasing
exploitation undermining the unionis poisoning the
minds of the workers with bourgeois illusions and
weakening the working class generally.
AT the same time the capitalist class is continually
extending its power and control of the government
of the United States. The machinery of the federal
and state governments is becoming ever stronger and
more centralized and systematically employed to
crush the workers struggles and to keep the working
class down. The capitalist class the political
field is just alert the economic field Through
its control of the republican and democratic parties
the American capitalist class the fulflment
of its wishes and interests by all the agencies of
the American government.
In the field of international relations the Ameri-
capitalist class and the government which
its interests militantly pushing ahead for the
extension of American mperialist rule in Latin
America remember Nicaragua, Mexico, the Philip
pines, etc., on the Pacific in Europe, China etc.
With regard to the Soviet Union, the first country
earth ruled by workers and peasants, the Ameri-
capitalist class maintains consistent policy of
hostility which heightens tremendously the danger
of united imperalist attack upon the Soviet Union
for which British Imperialism is feverishly prepar-
ing.
What has the official leadership of the American
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