The daily worker., 1928-07-02
The Democratic Labor" Plank


first labor plank was-chatte slavery.
After its defeat at the polls 1860 that labor plank
the democratic party favored secession from the Union and civil
war for the preservation Of slavery.
After it's military defeat in 1865 democratic parys
abor plank" peonagethe nearest possible approach
to the restoration of slavery.
If the foregoing relates most specifically Negro labor
the South nevertheless in keeping with the whole attitude
of the democratic party the working class whole
black and white city and The democratic party ira
ditonally the party of slavery.
it were only matter of historical association about
name these facts would be of little Importance But the demo
cratic party of AL Smith truly party of slave labor
the democratic party of John Calhoun and Jefferson Davis
Adapted to historical conditions is Gust it in the
republican party party of slavery the shop strike
breaking by military force and the imperast conquest of
weaker nations the exploitation of colonial slaves
Because Woodrow Wilson's second administration marked
the tremendous acceeraon of United States Imperialism
curing intensive corruption of the American labor bureaucracy
this parasm feeding the American trade unions
has created the myth that the democratic party performs
puny service organized portion of the working
rather to the higher-skilled labor aristocracy
democratic party has several previous occasions had
Tabor plans which attempted to capitalize this myth But
labor plank of the present campaign the joke
in whole history of this traditional party of slavery
1t is an open secret that William Green president of the
Federation of Labor engaged in the
open shop employers against the reds had big
vising this vicious (an labor plank of the democratic party
The most outstanding point in this Tabor plank is the
pledge of the democratic party enact legislation for federal
anke law intended to rob the trade unions of any rights
action in labor disputes they theoretically possess
to establish dictatorship Of the federal executive the
unions. This is called anti-injuncton provision!
portion the democratic party labor plank is prom
se put into law the infamous anabor project which
Matched in conspiracy with committee of the American
Association and others high in the councils of the opeshop
and which be known as the bar
association" project. 1t reads:
elimination of the present.
evils with iniunions legislation
designed accomplish these ends formulated
Note: Representatives of capital" and "the barr
This is the only portion of the plank which promises eg
aton On other points the plank favors principle of COL
ectve bargaining and thinks Tabor choose its own rep
resentave but legislation promised and means
nothing than that Green drag as much as
sbe of the working class to support the bosses political party
with promises given
There has scarcely been fouer piece of political
treachery than this collaboration of Bill with the Tam
many servants of the open shop manufacturers.
Other labor skates for example John Lewis are calling
the working class to support the republican candidate of
the shop capitalists Herbert Hoover But in this cam
pagn undoubtedly the Labor face to be naned nndA Al
Smiths brown derby by the dominant trade meaders
For those the intelligence to understand
that federal anstke law is the thing to abor
plank that capitalist party offer treacery of the
F. of L. bureaucracy will not be hard But this is
only an eyepner OF the crudes sort What the work
ing class must learn is that under circumstances is it pos
sble for capitalist political party anything whatever for
the working class irrespective of the camouaged pans
which may be adopted.
The only political party which anything to the
working class the class party of the working itself Just
as the republican party the classic party capitalism had
the historic mission of putting capitalist class into power
as the ruling class the only party can claim to be
the class party Of the workers party whose purpose
is to put the working class into power the ruling class
mere is only one such party 1t the Workers (Conmu
nist) Party.
Vote Communist.