The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-05
A Capitalist Labor Day

s Tho +ad nions to the pro-capitais anti-abor
but it is doubtful if Sam Gopers ever went so Tar
in splitting venom upon the working class and IN defense OF
the capitalist against the workers. as do Wlilam
Green Frank Morrison and others OF the A f. OF H. pueauc
racv in last Mondays Labor Day oraory And behind TINS IS
reason: history has produced period IN which outright
becomes the open program OF the labor heu
tenants of the capitalist class The A. f. OF L. bureaucracy
had never adopted the terms for deception OF the work
no class as were and used by the socialist trade union
of Europe But this period when throughout
the world the socademocracy is being transformed INTO
socafascsm there is very little dfference IN tne Vocap
ulares of William Green of the A F. of L. and Comrade
Zoergiebe the bloody fascist police chief OF Berlin
member of the Party who murdered many
workers of Berlin for holding May Day parade.
Green and Morrison expressed the theoretical pass OF
this movement the spirit of the present-day A. f. OF L.
bureaucracy was Illustrated with dramatic quality at
the show that pulled off by Mathew Wo Paul vacca
rei and Ed McGrady at Whtestone Landing Long Island
where McGrady presented by Vol with GOLD meoal
for his supposed in strebreakng in New York
during the long struggles in the needle trades and Tor MS
services mill of Ezabehon Tennessee where
he pulled off the codbooded swnde against the rayon
workers strike But let Vaccare president of the Loyal
Labor Legion of New York under whose auspices the anti
labor orgy was held speak for himself
1.-THE Loyal organized during the world
war by members with the A. F. of L. These
mostly representatives of rver-ront and marine workers
and the s Officers were s 1ns p okouTs
AND OTHERWISE AID IN HOLDING MEN TO THEIR WAR
TIME TAsKss
These words of Vaccare give the essence of the social
fascism of the A. F. of L. o Illustrate STRIKES and "hod
ing men wartime tasks for the bosses and the CAPT
tas state-ha is the of the function of the A f.
of L. machine. And Vaccare description of the fascist
work Gold Medal McGrady makes the picture complete
"other labor organizations the agreement
the outstanding labor of 1929 because OF
his having cleaned the Communist element the FUR
and because of his settlement read
of the strike of workers in Ehabethton Tenn
Aside from the fact that Mcrady did succeed in
cleaning up the Communist elemen-what sort of
ganzaton gives gold medals to labor man. for trying to
crush the militant workers and to break the strikes led by
them? Only detective agencyor fascist organization
William Green's theoretical explanation of the role of
the A. F. of L. falls in fully with its fascist practices This
theory goes That the early postwar period there
some sentiment for liquidation" of labor, and:
"This MIGHT HAVE PRECIPITATED A PERIOD OF Sc
RIOIJs STRIFE had not been THAT INDUS
TRIAL THOUGHT, WATCHING THE TREND OF AFFAIRS.
that the result of the continuance of that
the damned up purchasing back
the account of the national economic program burst
forth and not only the high which were being currently
earned but accumulated savings as well poured into the
channels of commerce"
And these good employers not the workers. not the
labor movement rescued the gh wages of the workers.
They (the enpIoyer began consciously to PROFOUND the
principle high and low costs policy enlightened
industrial practice principle
of economists all the world and while it in
application broad scale novel i'm
the committee being fundamental Development
And:
national prosperity assured for the great mass
incomes and needs permitted"
What is this but the most outrageous attempt to de-
the workers. calm acceptance of the capitalist apo
ogsts fasehood that really rising and conditions
growing better for the workers? How does this msate
with the undoubted fact that last they
cut miners from $3.50 to between 81 and $3.50 that
every day there of ten per cent cut in in
textiles 20 per cent reduction for metal workers.
some other wage cut for other large industry?
And why does not Green mention that lot of the low
costs be summed up the word decentralization which
in the experience of all workers. speedup the auto
matte machine control of the speed of labor the dropping of
safety regulations the sucking out of the lives Of the work.
at greater speed than before?
that Mr. Green opposed to the present chronic
unemployment Why? Not from the point of view of the
workers. but from the point of view of the employers because
M creates feeling of resentment against the existing social
order of rule by the capitalist class exploited work
class And in order to protect the capitalist class against
the workers. Green thinks something ought to be done about
it, but he does not propose anything the A. F. of L. has
program unless be in line with John L. LEWIS program of
throwing 100000 superfluous coal miners out of the in
dustry
But Mr. Green's Labor Day speech has little for
remedies his speech loaded with advice to the capitalist
class for the successful crushing of the working class and
the putting through of capitalist naturalization and closes
SUth hurS IF praico If oarita icpn.