The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-12

them from the working class organi-
cations of the rest of the world.
! The A. F. of L. executive council
is using the dominant position which
it has as the head of the labor move
ment of the greatest imperialist ma
ton, to create a Pan-American inter
national of trade unions which can
be used by American Imperialism
against the masses of the Latin
American countries and for the ms
terest of Wall Street.
ALMOST three pages Of the report
IA are devoted to an exposition Of
the activities of Vice President Mat
thew Vol as delegate to the third
Pan American Commercial Confer
ence. The question naturally arises
as to what an official of the Ameri-
can labor movement was doing as a
delegate to a commercial conference,
but this is understood if we recall that
A. F. Of l.. officialdom seeks repre-
sentation at these gatherings as part
of its united front with the bosses
and government.
Woll was one of the American
delegation APPOINTED BY THE
STATE LABOR DEPARTMENT. He
refers in the report to the following
capitalists as "my colleagues" max
ing up the American delegation:
Lewis S. Pierson, Chairman of the
Columbia Bank and Trust Com
pany; John H. Merrill, President
All American Cables; Gano S.
Dunn, President, J. G. White En-
! gineering Corporation; F. Abbott
Goodhue, President, International
Acceptance Bank; Frank D. Water
man, President and Treasurer,
Waterman Fountain Pen Company;
Roy D. Chaplin, President, Ma
tional Automobile Chamber of Com
merce; Franklin C. Remington,
Chairman of the Board of Directors
of The Foundation Company and
Daniel G. Wing, President, First
| National Bank of Boston.
ONE would think that labor union
official would feel little out of
place in such a collection of capital
lists. But not Vice President Vol.
On the contrary, he reports a great
victory for labor True, the victory
is not evident except to the trained
eye of an efficiency unionist, but
VOL writes lyrically as follows:
Thus l am happy to report that
an objective sought eleven and again
seven years ago and frowned upon
on both occasions, was unanimously
approved at this time"
What is this glorious achievement
which puts another star in the crown
of the executive council?
4 consists in the fact that Vol was
authorized by the kind-hearted
capitalists who were his fellow-dele-
gates, to introduce a resolution which
recommended that future conferences
should have as one point on the
ageHda "the subject of improving the
material standards of life and labor
OF the masses of the people of the
respective countries"
1t is true that the resolution COM
mlttee of the conference amended
this high sentiment by adding the
words; so that by improving the
conditions of labor production TO-
mented and consumption increased,
thereby contributing to the develop
ment of commerce."
But the undaunted VOL remarks
IN his letter to President Green
quoted in the report that: q. the
change is one only of form and
not of substance"
The policy here expressed is again
that of efficiency unionism and
Worker-employer cooperation on an
international scale.
TIE report on international ReIa.
tons" submitted by the executive
council to the Los Angeles conven-
tlon reveals official labor Leadership
working hand in hand with Wall
Street government and American
capitalists to undermine the militancv
OF Latin American labor movements
carrying out its policy of cooperation
with all imperialist agencies in this
sphere as it does in it's domestic
policy. w
This betrayal of the WORKING class
OF the Latin American countries and
the United States is carried out under
the gulse of "democracy"-which the
Official labor leadership interprets as
support of the policy of the govern.
ment of the United States which
masks its role as capitalist dictator.
snip by giving favors to labor lead
ers and the upper strata of labor in
return for their support of candidates
on the lists of both the capitalist
parties, and continual war or the
militant sections of the American
working class.
The activities of the A. f. of T.
executive council in relation to the
league of nations are also hof great
Importance and of a similar nature.
but must be reserved for later
article.
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