The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-06
The Red Drive

THE leading A. F, of L. body in Milwau-
kee, the Federated Trades Council, has
just rejected decisively the veritable or
der of William Green to "expel all Com
munists from membership"
Yesterday, the Newark Federated
Trades Council took similar action and large
painters local in the A. F. of L. there has followed
suit, and has agreed moreover, to take part in
Communist Party affair.
These actions significant. They reveal that
Green's vicious Red batting" drive against the
Communists is meeting the resistance of thousands
OF honest, militant workers in the A. F. of L.
The action Of the Milwaukee A. F. of L. body is
particularly significant in that this body is con-
trolled by Socialist Party members.
This is enlghtenng when one remembers that
the New Leader, Socialist Party organ even this
week, features william Green and his policies in
Guiding his anti-Communist crusades, as the bull
wark of the American Labor movement
This shows that within the Socialist Party there
is serious resentment against the trade union poll
cies Of the top leadership, policies which are con-
eerned mainly with protecting the class collabora
ton tactics Of the Green WoI-Lewis ofhcialdon.
GREENS vicious "Red-bating" drive has been
launched at this particular time with reason.
Green is striving to divert the attention of the A.
F. Of L. rank and file from the disastrous results of
his class collaboration policies, policies which have
permitted the employers to drive the wage levels
and working conditions of the workers down to
Starvation levels. Green is seeking to conceal from
the A. F. of L. rank and file that his endorsement
of the Roosevelt N.R.A. program permitted the en-
ployers to foster company unions and strikebreak-
ing arbitration"
But Green's anti-CommuniSt drive comes at q
time when thousands of A. F. Of L. rank and flers
most of them not yet committed to the policies of
the Communist Party, seeing that the Conmu-
nists in the trade unions have no aims or inter-
ests antagonistc to the daily bread and butter
struggles Of the workers. They are seeing on the
contrary, that the class struggle policies of the
Communists in the trade unions are directed pre-
cisely toward protecting the wages, working cond-
tons, trade union democracy against gangsteriSm
and corruption.
The Communists in the trade unions have won
the respect of their fellow workers precisely by
their Incorporating fight to make the trade
unions real fighting instruments to improve the
daily economic conditions of the workers
The Central Committee of the Communist Party
and the Trade Union Unity League through its
national secretary William z. Foster, have both
addressed open letters to the membership of the
A. F. of l.. These letters should become important
weapons in the fight against Green's reactionary-
fascist Red batting" They will be discussed and
reproduced in part in coming issues of the Daily
Worker.
'Iil9 latest Developments. meanwhile indicate
that the strength Of the rank and file militant OPP
position in the trade unions is steadily growing
This emphasizes more than ever the burning need
for the united front of all honest militant workers
IN the unions, Of Socialist Party workers together
with Communists and non-party- men. united in
class solidarity to defend their economic class in
terests against the offensive Of the employers.