The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
By Fred Ellis

lea and US, the workers of the Uni.
ted States. 49,
Labor Imperialism.
The struggle against American
imperialism must become also a
deadly struggle against the PAN
American Federation of Labor,
which is only the "labor" instru-
ment of Wall Street. We must re-
member that the tentacles of u. S.
imperialism have reached into the
labor movement of both countries,
corrupting their venal officials, at
tempting to disarm the workers of
Latin America before impcrialist
aggression with hypocritical phrases
of "good will'' and fraternity, and
designing to make the trade unions
of the United States accessories to
tie imperialist subjugation of the
Latin peoples and the exploitation
and murder of their fellow-workers
south of the Rio Bravo (Grande).
mean that unspeakable instrl-
ment of Yankee imperialism, the
Par-American Federation of Labor,
whose every act is dictated to suit
the policies of tire imperialist State
Department of the United States
government, and which is coarse
car:cature of an international labor
organization whose actions We revo-
Ilutionary and militant trade union-
lists of the U. S. repudiate, and
whose leaders and organizers we de-
nounce as scoundrels and traitors
to the proletariat of all America.
The actions of Green, Woll, Mo-
rcres and Iglesias, in the corruption
and sitting of true proletarian IN
ternationalism, stand out for all to
see. Their "Monr oe Doctrine of La
Dor" is a reflection of the domino
tion with armed forces by Yankee
land of the oppressed peoples Of
Latin America. Green, Woll and
Co., who in the U. S. corrupt the
trade unions with schemes of class
collaboration and deliver the trade
unionists of the American Fedora
ton of Labor over to the most in
tensive exploitation, wish to impose
such policies on the Latin-American
proletariat by the domination of the
American Fenderation of Labor in
the Pan-American Federation. of La
Dor to obtain the collaboration of
the Latin-American workers with
their imperialist exploiters. We de-
clare this to be international treason
to the proletariat, and ask from and
pledge to the proletariat and peas
antry in Mexico and all Latin Amer
lica, fraternal assistance in destroy
ing such conceptions, in driving out
Of our trade unions such traitors
and in attaining true international
and proletarian solidarity in action.
In the crimes of U. s. imperial
ism, the Pan-American Federation
of Labor, like the yellow Amster-
dam international of India, China,
and elsewhere plays a definite role.
The murders in Cuba, in Colombia.
/ in Nicaragua, and the hundreds of
other aggressions of Wall Street
meet never protest from the PAN
American Federation of Labor led
by Green and Vol. To give final
proof of total lack of international
proletarian solidarity, tho last con-
vention of the American Federation
of Labor petitioned the imrcrislist
U. S. government to stop Mexican
workers from immigrating to the
United States. We, OF .he Trade
Union Educational League, declare
to you that proletarian solidarity
and interests have no boundary lines
fer us. We welcome our Mexican
brothers as comrades and join them
in the struggle for the emancipation
of labor.
The second part of Weisbord's
speech, to be published tomorrow
ON this page, takes up the pro-
posals of United States-Mexican
labor unity made by the TUEL.
the tasks before the Left wing in
the two coulOies, and the coming
Montevideo conference to crgr,'ze
Latin-American labor confcdera-
ton