The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
''Non>P craftsmanship" Of
AFL Aids Boss Parties
Workers Have No Friends to Support Among
Democrat Republicans Socialist Leaders


the workers and farmers; Ashurst
of Arizona, elected with the support
of the A. F. of L.; Lewis Of Illinois
and George Of Georgia who were also
endorsed by the railroad labor ex-
ecutives; Bratton of New Mexico,
Robinson (Ark), Couzens (Mich),
Hatfield (W. Va, Walsh (Mass.),
Wagner IN. ", also all A. F of L.
endorsed; and these particular friends
Of President VOL: Moses, Wat
son, Smoot, Reed, Bingham and
Shortridge, as usual for anything
against the working class
Exposed BY Senate Vote
The vote on the bonus, too, revealed
these friends of labor" LaFollette,
Costigan, Borah, Dill, George, Lewis,
both Washes, Wagner and Ex-Secre-
tary of Labor Davis, are only the best
known of A. F. of l.. friends who re-
fused their just due to the ex-ser-
vicemen. We may also add that the
Farmer-Laborite Kvale of Minnesota,
expressly warned the bonus marchers
to stay away from the Capitol"
We could go on endlessly giving
examples o fwhat A. F. of L.-indorsed
democrats and republicans do" for
labor. In most cases, even the most
brazen A. F. of l.. official cannot pre-
tend he is picking the best man, but
instead defends himself by endorsing
the lesser evil" And the lesser evil
turns out to be as evil as the other
candidate. For if you limit yourself
to choosing between the democratic
and republican candidates, you are
between the devil and the deep sea.
Strike Breaker Supported
For example, the railroad union
and the A. F. of L. of Colorado meet
together in one political convention
to endorse candidates. In 1926 they
endorsed Adams for governor, not
withstanding the fact that he had
been the railroad and corporation
leader of the state senate ever since
Colorado was a state. Their excuse
was that Adams had promised mot
to bring back the VIGOROUSLY anti
labor Colorado ra-- gers" In 1927 came
a big coal sll7.ke. Adams did not
bring back the rangers; instead. he
organized a state police" out of
members and officers of the Rangers
It's commander is Lewis N. Scherf,
lieutenant to Hammock in the never
to-be-forgotten Ludlow Massacre of
1913. The ex-Rangers state police"
got to work: November 81, 1927, at
Columbine, they shot to death six
miners. Adams was reelected in
1928 and 1880, both times with the
support of the labor political conven-
ton. This summer he sent the "state
police in to break the beet workers
strike.
Not that "lesser evils" endorsed by
the A. F. of L. and the railroad broth
erhoods are any worse than the spe-
cial darlingS whom they support.
Consider, for instance, Mayor Frank
Murphy of Detroit and Supreme
Court Justice Cardoza, who are not
only beloved by labor" but are also
special pets of the socialists. Muir
ply, liberal" democrat, was elected
VT hthe backing fthe Detroit Fed
Grafton of Labor and the socialists,
as working class candidate" After
which, in quick succession, came the
Ford massacre, on March Z, 1882, in
which Murphy's police participated,
and their brutal clubbing of work
ers at the Briggs plant.
Another such darling is Judge Ben
janin Cardoza. When Hoover ap-
pointed him to the Supreme Court
bench they went into ecstasies. But
one of Cardozos first acts was to
support the decision refusing to re-
view Bill Lawrence's case. What was
this Pennsylvania workers crime? He
was framed under the murderous
Flynn sedition law for declaring in
public that Coolidge and Kellogg
we're "a bunch of hypocrites." Thus
Cardozo; but did the A. F. Of L. and
the socialists not know even before
Cardozos elevation to the Supreme
Court whom they were supporting?
1t was this same Cardozo, as head
of the New York Court of Appeals,
who upheld the conviction and Jail
ing of David Gordon, on March IL,
1927, for writing the poem America
which appeared in the Daily Worker,
not to speak of the numerous deci-
sions in which Cardozo put teeth into
anti-labor injunctions.
Such are the friends of labor"
supported under the mon partisan"
policy, such are the consequences of
choosing candidates to support from
among the democratic and republican
politicians.
(The second article in this series,
to be published tomorrow, is en-
titled, "The A F. of L. Officialdom
Is Part of the Democratic and Re-
publican MACHINERY
N0VTETN DEFINE