The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20

oping, and it would be we'll if we
had agents on the watch for these
new opportunities of organization.
The report spoke of the growth of
such new "mass" industries as
refrigerators and vacuum
cleaners.
The 'bureaucrats appealed to the
employers instead of to the workers.
They begged them to substitute A.
F. of L. unions for their company
unions, saying that, "There is moth
ing that the company union can do
within single company that a trade
union cannot develop the machinery
for doing, and accomplish more eff
ficiently. Union-management coop
Grafton. is much more funda-
mental and effective than the employ
er-representatiOn PLANS for coopera-
ton with the management"
The convention decided to conduct
campaign for the repeal of the
antitrust laws, and of their Clayton
amendment, was supposed to rem
der labor immune from legal suit,
etc. Gompers had been instrumental
in having these laws passed, but
ever since their passage they have
been used only against labor. The
IN. Y. World" wrote that in its drive
against the antitrust laws, labor
would shave the passive support of
what is commonly called Wall
Street." This meant that Wall Street
and the A. F. of L. would work to
repeal the antitrust laws, but that
the anti-labor laws would not only
not be repealed, but would even be
extended and intensified. Resolu-
tions were adopted to "work"
against injunctions and the practice
of "yellow-dog" contracts.
Trade Union Militarism.
Further evidence of the A. F. of
LIS policy of simply being the Eyes
boys" of the State Department is
evident in their attitude and activi-
ties on militarism. The metal trades
department convention had adopted
a resolution for the adequate upkeep
of the army and navy and for per-
manent naval and air bases at San
Diego. The idea was supposed to
be to reduce unemployment in the
metal trades. During the conven-
ton, Sarah Conboy, of the United
Textile Workers, asked the delegates
to use their influence for govern
ment orders for more army uniforms.
At the end of the convention Green
introduced Summerall, chief of staff
of the United States Army and one
of the most active militarist propa-
gandists in the country. During the
previous year Green had been made
civilian aid to the war department,
reward for his having helped to
christen battleships and increase en-
rollment in the Citizens Military
Training Camps. Summerall spoke
on preparedness and national de-
Tense, and characterized the A. F. of
l.. leaders as among the most pa
triotic men the country has ever
known: "The aspirations of the A.
F of L. are those of the good men
of industry. Indeed / have often
been startled by the identity of SEN
timents expressed by President
Green, and by those whom we some
times call captains of industry"
This 1927 convention showed bet
ter than ever before how the A. F.
of L. is working for the Wall Street
government to undermine the mill
fancy of American labor, and
how fully it is cooperating with i'm
perialism in return for being per-
mitted to continue to exist. This is
simply an extension of it's domestic
policies to the field of foreign poll
cies. 1t is aiding Amsterdam to foist
upon the European workers the
same efficiency schemes of class col
laboration (Americanization) which
it is so successfully practising in
the United States. We need only
refer back to it's work in the Geneva
Economic Conference, among other
betrayals. This is the subtle method
by which the A. F. of L. is helping
Wall Street to collect the interests
upon it's loans.