The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-16

American Federation of Labor,
Wall Streets ace against the
Porto Rican workers, came here
to aid Munoz Marin pull the wool
over the eyes of the Porto Rican
workers in New York. We con-
tinue the letters from a Porto
Rican worker correspondent.
Next in size to the League and
one of the oldest fraternal societies
in Harlem, and one that also bids
for power and influence among the
Porto Rican masses is the Porto
Rican Brotherhood of America.
Erasmo VanCo, Jr, the newly
elected president of this organiza-
ton, claims to be worker and be-
lieves in universal brotherhood, yet
the social group he heads discrimi-
mates against Negro workers.
At the entrance to the club there
is big sign that reads: Brother
hood" The sign should really read:
'Brothe ,:ood, for white people
only"
The above organization did not
send delegates to the conference and
in return communication to the
Leagues invitation to attend the
conference, they made it plain to
the Leaguers that they are up to
their Vaccinations and that they
will have nothing to do with them.
Of course not, isn't Thomas Ga
res, vice-president of the Liberty
Republican Club and former pres
ident of the Porto Rican Brother
hood of America, warm friend of
Erasmo Vandc, Jr.?
1t is no longer a secret to the
workers of Harlem that the major
ity of the members in the govern
ing board of the Brotherhood are
also members in good standing in
the Hoover, Morgan and Owen D.
Young party of imperialism.
Something stinks somewhere in
Denmark and the workers of Har-
lem are getting wiser to it every
day.
The date set for the conference
was so sagaciously arranged by the
League president, that it fell just
when Santiago Iglesias and Don
Barcelo, Porto Rican ambassadors
to the Court of Saint Dollar, were
here in New York City and in
Washington, D. C. on official bust
ness"
The long-waited conference at last
took form on June 2, 1929. Besides
the social, benefit and political
groups already mentioned, we had
with us Cordova Davila, Porto Ri
can resident commissioner in Wash
ington and the emulator of that
great and immortalized Porto Rican
dollar patriot, Luis Munoz Rivera.
Our friend Davila represented the
side of the Porto Rican Patriotic
Alliance, as Mr.. Barcelo had unex-
pectedly left town.
In behalf of the "yellow" social
list party, we had with US that in
ternationally known labor faker and
betrayer, Santiago Iglesias.
The well-paid secretary of the Pan
American Federation of Labor, a
i limb Of the reactionary and corrupt
American Federation of Labor and
a paying agency Of American i'm
perialism in Latin America, is the
most astute and sagacious politician
ever born into the realm of politics.
Santiago Iglesias parades as a
socialist" but he is nothing more
nor less than capitalist-imperialist
agent in the ranks of the working
class.
While the treacherous labor mis-
leader told the workers at the Park
view Palace that American imperi-
alism was partly responsible for
the miserable conditions of the
workers and farmers of Porto Rico,
self, as secretary of the Pan-Amer-
self, as ecsretary of the Pan-Amer-
lean Federation of Labor, acts as
a willing tool of American imperial
ism in its onward march towards
the economic and political control of
Latin America and its subsequent
subjugation and exploitation of the
masses.
Besides the treacherous revolu-
tionary palaver of the above labor
faker, we workers were blessed with
a democratic sermon from Davila
and the usual flowery and sugar
coated speeches from some of the
delegates and from the so-called
representative" men of the colony
But what about the audience almost
totally composed of workers; were
they represented, did they have q
say? No. They were not allowed
to say anything. They were gagged
Hernandez, Marin & Co. were
afraid that impertinent and out-of
place questions would place them
in a very tight hole so they ar.
ranged beforehand that the confer
ence be non-debatable affair.
That meant that the worker-ardi.