The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-01
Page Four
BY ALEX RITTELMAN.

The leaders of the American Federation of Labor,
Green VOL Lewis & Co.. together with the Socialist
Party are the main instigators of and interven
ton The only forces in the United States that fight
against and military intervention, that lead the
workers to resist capitalist offensive are the Com
munist Party and the Trade Union Unity League.
Gompers and Hiqut Helped Make War in 1914-191S.
In the mperialst of 1914-1918 which American
Imperialism joined in 1917 the leaders of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, headed by Sam CIompers,
working mobilization agents for Woodrow Will
and the American capitalist class. Gompers and
his heutenants-Green, VOL Lewis Schlesnger Hill
man, ec-have helped put military CONSUMPTION.
They elaborated with the War Labor Board to con-
script the workers for the industries They under
took to prevent strikes and any other resistance of the
workers to the war
The leaders Of the American Federation OF Labor
made the unions part of the nlperalst machine.
Gompers & Co. functoning as the labor branch
of the War Department They were oudest in the i'm
perialst howl for to the finish" They stood by
Wilson and Big Business in making the imperiast
peace which had fastened the chains of slavery upon
the exploited masses all over the world and which is
giving rise to fresh imperialst wars
Gompers & Co.-the leaders of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Observation-Disclosures with Wilson the first
military intervention against the workers revolution in
Russia Remember the detachments of American troops
driven by Wilson and Gompers into Archangel and
Siberia to stop the workers revolution in Russia to
force the workers and peasants back into the mper-
as slaughter for the glory and profits of the French
English and American bankers
How was it possible that labor leaders, supposedly
representing the interests of the workers should
able to commit such black treachery to the working
class? The answer is: that Gompers & Co. we're not
real leaders of the workers. they did represent the
interests of the working class They were-and are
Social-reforists that is people interested saving
capitalism, not in eboshng it. That is what Conpers
and Co doing before the late war; continuing the
same policy during the and afterward The leaders
of the American Federation of Labor have been and
are the agents of the enemy in midst the agents
of the capitalist class in the labor movement.
Berger Hllquit, Oneal Cahan the Socialist Party
of America, the type of labor" leaders They
are sociareformsts that fighting save the capt.
alist system from the attacks of the working class and
from the workers revolution These socia-reformists
of the Socialist Party the same as Gornpers Green
Vol Lewis and Co. helping Big Business to make
and win the
At the outbreak of the of 1914-1918 there we're
still in the ranks of the Socialist Party of America
large numbers of workers, among them revolutionary
workers The majority Of the membership of the So
clalst Party therefore against the mperiast war
but it had clear idea of how fight the war The
Communist International had not yet come into exist
ence The Second Socialist International had COLLAPSED