The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-19
BY HARRY CANNES.

By HARRY CANNES
IT would be hard to find blacker page in all
labor history than that written during the
present crisis by the deeds Of the leadership OF
the A. F. of L. against both the unemployed and
unemployed.
1t is especially necessary to recount these deeds
Of the Greens and VOLS when We see the spec
tacle of 100 overstuffed labor takers presenting
petition to Hoover, asking for federal aid" for
the unemployed The real intent of this petition
can be understood only in the light OF the bread
gnatching and strike-breaking activities Of the
A. F. of L. officialdom
Conference With Big Capitalists
Right after the crisis threw millions Of workers
into the streets to starve, William Green presi-
dent of the A. p. of L., along with IL other high
paid A. F. of L. officials, met with such indi
viduals as Hoover, Walter Teagle, president Of
the Standard Oil of New Jersey: Alfred P. Sloan.
Jr, president of General Motors; Owen D. Young,
Samuel insult (whose gun thugs are now shoot
ing down miners in Kentucky; e. G. Grace,
Bethlehem Steel Co.: Myron c. Taylor U. S,
Steel (both of whom later headed the wage cut
ting drive for 100000 steel workers..
The purpose of the meeting was to prevent
strikes and how effectively this was done is testi
fled to in no uncertain terms by one of Green
and VOLS best friends, the Wall Street Journal.
The most hopeful sign this sheet could find for
capitalism for 1882 was the following:
Zone aspect of the business year which has
lately passed out unwept nnhOnoreu and I'M
sung, is deserving of more than the casual men
ton it has received. It Is doubtful whether
rapid and extensive a defIation of the wage
earners income has ever before taken place in
the United States, with nearly total alb
sence Of open conflict between masters and
men :. 1t seems far cry back to the Home
stead riots of 1882, to the Pullman and railroad
strikes of two years later, or even to the Col
orado mine disorders of 1912
Thus Wall Street pins medal on the lapel
OF Mr. Green for the rapid and extensive della
ton Of the wage earner's income"
The results for the unemployed workers Is
written in the ledgers Of the big corporations in
the form Of hundreds of millions in profits taken
out Of wages that would never have been paid
had not the A. ?. of L. officialdom not helped
the bosses to hog-tie the workers.
Green's Promises to the Unemployed.
Green however, as well as the rest of the A.
OF L. officialdom did not neglect the unemployed
workers in the Judas act. With the prospect OF
starvation for millions clearly pointed out by
the Communist Party land later even Green
himself could not deny it,, the A. F. Of L. bu-
reaucrats called on the hungry workers to have
forttude to believe in promises, to go hungry for
the preservation of American capitalism.
1t is sickening to read, in the light Of the
present situation, in the face of the present adj
missions of Green of wholesale starvation, his
promises showed down the Threats of the workers
back in 1929 and 1880.
Bra5en Lying Ia Hoover.
Workers were starving and fighting for relief.
what did Green tell them? He said: Nov ~,
1920:
eve now find that resytrnikm Is giving way;