The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-23
Green will Not Hold the
Support Of Labor in His
Alliance With the Bosses
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

THREE interesting statements were made by William
Green, president of the American Federation Of La
Dor in the anti-left wing meeting held at Beethoven
Hail. Monday night under the guise of special gather
ing of the Central Trades and Labor Council.
They in effect follows
First:-'This is a struggle Of Communism versus
Americansm, of the philosophy of Moscow against the
high ideals Of the United States government"
Second:-"We wondering whether or not there is
a civil government in New York City,"
Thrd-"If the Communists win out in the trade union
movement, then there will be president of the
American Federation Of Labor"
There is contradiction in these statements They
all grow of the position, acceptance Of Amer
lean capitalism and its government interpreting any dis
agreement with the philosophy OF the present social sys
TEN of profit and private property the worst treason
Being satisfied with things they fighting every
effort to achieve progress the offcadom of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor the left wing as bit
tery as the United States government attacks the Com
nunist movement as tenacously world imperialism
struggles against the Union Of Soviet Republics
not difficult to parallel the speech made by Pres
dent Green at Beethoven Hail. Monday night, with the
vndctve and malicious propaganda being spread at thai
very by hostile world mperialist press agans
the triumph of the Peoples Armies in successfully tax
ing Shanghai, China's greatest seaport.
The greatest clash of social forces takes place whel
society challenges old and is close to victory
Under those conditions the old order, utilizing ever
weapon to itself, stoop to every possible lie ant
stops short of no Misrepresentation in the propaganda
that it spreads to protect its waning power
The best example of this has been the decadeong at
tack the successful revolution of Russias workers
peasants ten years old The big fact that thu
old social order had fallen in the struggle with the
The truth kicked into the gutter by the world reac
ton in effort to misrepresent and hide this triumph
Identcaly the process is being repeated in th
attitude toward the victories of the Chinese ove
their agelong oppressors Thus the New York Herald
Tribune, citing example, carries the headline "Shang
hal Mobs Repealed by British; Lootng Rife; U. S
Marines Join Guard This is an effort to smudge the
achievements of the Chinese revoutonsts 1t seeks
fan prejudice in this country against the revolution thus
building basis for possible Intervention the side
of the old order. If any ootng has been done in Shang
hal if there have been any disorders they have all beer
committed by the allies of the imperass, the Shantune
forces with which the invaders hoped to hold Shanghai
against the Peoples Armies 1t is significant that the
imperiast allies included Russians
deposed dukes adnras generals and princes who haC
been defeated and driven out Of the Workers Republic
by the Soviet Power.
All this may seem to be far cry from President
Green speaking at gathering controlled by the reac
ton in New York City.
But once Green is accepted as the defender of CAPT
talism and he admits this himself and is proud of it
then the alliances that he makes and the flood Of
blingsgate and falsehood that he turns loose against
the left wing can be easily understood
Green wakes hysterca in his efforts to charge that
the left wing in the needle trades has subsidized the
police force secure protection This Of sounds
fantastic to audience that has just heard Edward
F. McGrady, Green's personal red batter in New York
City, state that A. F. of L. officials receiving the
fullest support of Police Commissioner Mclaughlin and
Mayor Walker. Such contradiction, however, does not
trouble Green, does it bother any of his fellow Of
cals who trouble little about the facts The old story
of huge sums of money from Moscow is trotted out
by Green, By Matthew Woll by McGrady, in their eff
forts to open the treasures of the local unions in New
York and thus finance their work of destruction in the
trade unions and mould every workers mind to
ceptance of their reactonary position
The fact that the welcome" sign for A. F. of L.
officials appears the doormat before Police Com
missioner McLaughln's office while at the time
rank and file workers in the left wing of the needle
trades merely sympathzers of the left wing in
jail prison for having acted strike pckets in the
battles of the union is proof enough to convince the
of workers where their interests lie and who is
getting the support Of the police.
Green's confession of failure is contained in his wall
that "Cvil government is trial" Green isn't salts
fled with the satisfactory cooperation he is getting
from the police force. He wants He wants the
city government to all of its power to club labor
in the fur industry into accepting the program Of the
A. F. of L. reaction
Many of the workers in the needle trades came here
from foreign shores. Many others descended from
these immigrants. Green in the spirit of czarism tries
to accomplish what the failed to do, to straight
jacket the thinking of great masses of people.
In his day the saw ideas being accepted by
the workers and peasants in Russia on an increasing
scale
Czarism fought every sign of discomfort among the
Russian people with the viciousness that Greer
employs in warning the left wing. In Russia the
car had his own jals, his army and his gov.
eminent. In the United States Green applauds wher
workers put into the jas Of the master class he
npplauds the military training Of the capitalists
he boasts Of the assistance given by the police force
in the metropolis he claims his right every protec-
ton Of the capitalist government because he is part
of that government.
But Green does not feel Safe Otherwise he would
not hold out the possibility Of the left wing which
to him means the Communists, winning the leadership