The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-20
A.F.OF |. HEAD
AGAIN RAISES
RED DOGGY
In Letter Signed by
Morrison, He Assails
Insurance Plan
BY Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 10
With the leading generals of big
businesses Chamber of Commerce
and National Manufacturers As
ISOLATION in White Sulphur Springs
West Va busy celebrating over the
precise fascist-like structure into
which to cast the N. R. A., William
Green president of the American
Federation of Labor, aided them to-
day on the Washington Front by
raising a red DOGGY in desperate
attack on the forthcoming National
Congress for Unemployment Insur-
ance. He is obviously very much
disturbed over the fact that work.
ers' organizations in twenty-seven
states have already elected dele
gates to the Congress.
In a letter to presidents of ma
tional and international unions,
State Federations of Labor and City
Central bodies, signed also by Frank
Morrison, secretary of the A. F. Of
L., the two anti-strike moguls
warned the recipients to "be on
guard against an attempt to create
the impression that the American
Federation of Labor is in any way
connected with the National Con-
gress for Unemployment and So
cial Insurance to be held in
the Washington Auditorium, JAN
5, s. 7, 1925, inclusive"
Say They Are Opposed
Cooperating with the big business
and banking bodies and the latters
legislative representatives.
Dickstein or Special Congressional
Committee investigating un-Amer-
lean activities" in the campaign
against the Communist Party as
the main objective in the plan to
smash the entire working class
movement, Green and Morrison de-
cared: The American Federation
Of Labor is opposed to those who
called the meeting. They are Com
munists and are using the Unen-
ployment Insurance issue for the
purpose Of gaining converts to their
Objectionable philosophy.
Green, who encouraged. the Dick
stein Committee to assist his strike
breaking activities by making the
general strike illegal, concealed the
fact that the Unemployment Con-
gress is being sponsored by an ex-
ceedngly broad front of liberals, So
cialists, conservatives, Communists
and trade unionists of all parties
and that it has been endorsed by
more than two thousand A. F. of L.
locals, four A. F. of L. International
Union conventions including the
United Textile Workers, the Anal
gamated Association of Steel and
Iron Workers, and the American
Newspaper Guild.
The two A. F. of L. officials how
ever, made no attempt to conceal
the fact that their bureaucracy has
been participating in the develop
ment of an economic security pro-
gram for the administration The
Administration F. of L. program
leaves the present unemployed out
in the cold and proposes to leave
the future unemployed to the
hazardous inadequacies of the vari-
Gus state machineries. "The A. F.
of L. has declared it's own policy
for unemployment insurance :.
a program for action on unemploy-
ment insurance" Green and Nor
rison stated, will be sent you for
guidance in securing state legisla-
ton. The local unions, the Central
Labor unions and the State Fed
Grafton of Labor affiliated with the
American Federation OF Labor,
should be warned against believing
that in giving their support to the
National Congress for Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance they
are endorsing and supporting the
program of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. I ask that the Gen.
trail Labor Unions make this letter
a matter of official record at their
next meetings, with the purpose in
view of acquainting the delegates
and representatives of affiliated
local unions of the above"
Green Shows Worry
Green's latest outburst against
the Unemployment Congress re-
aected the interest shown in the
Congress throughout the country by
attempting to get the newspapers
Of the country" to boycott the pro-
eeedings. Declaring that ut Is ap-
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