The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

growing mood of revolt in the A. F. Of L. member
ship as is shown by the despatch of Turner Cat
ledge Washington correspondent of the New York
Times, to his paper Of July %:
There is a prevalent opinion here that the
cruder and more radical element viii continue TO
be a dominant factor in labor relations and prob
ably in increasing degree. Those who take this
view saw in the West Coast strikes signs that labor
was in the process of repudiating the old trade
union oligarchy which has ruled it so long and
substituting new democracy shared by greater
number of those who toll"
MR. GREEN advances the distorted argument that
ln Communism is not so much concerned with
economic improvement. 1t is organized for the pur-
pose of promoting q political revolution"
Who have been the most courageous, the most
militant fighters for the improvement Of the con-
ditons of the workers? who--if not the Commu-
nsts? Who has been in the forefront on the picket
lines, in class battles throughout the country for
the improvement of the workers conditions if not
the Communists?
Why is that the open-shoppers, the viglantes,
the scab agents of all kinds, fight the Communists
most ferociously?
Solely and simply because the Communists
the best fighters for the everyday demands and
for the most elementary rights of the working class.
Who is it, Mr.. Green who denounced you when
you signed no-strike pact with Herbert Hoover
in $780, an agreement that bartered away the con-
ditions Of millions of American workers, including
the A. F of l., pact that helped slash the pay
envelopes of American workers by so per cent?
1t was the Communist Party.
Who was it that organized huge demonstrations
and all sorts of actions for unemployment insur-
ance, that drafted the Workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill, that hammered on the doors of Con-
gress for the passage of the bill mobilizing hun
dreds of thousands?
It was the Communist Party And you-the great
improver of the conditions of American labor -
fought that bill tooth and nail despite the fact that
over 240o locals central bodies and international
unions OF the A. F. of L. endorsed the bill
THE Communist Party, flesh of the flesh and bone
Of the bone Of toilng America. has fought =
and fights today-fer even the tiniest improvement
of the living conditions of the American workers 1t
Is the top A. F. of L. leadership on the other hand
which has a consistent record of fighting against
any movement of the workers which threatened the
profits of large capital
Who it. Mr.. Green, that helped to sign the
Roosevelt agreement with the infamous merit
clause" that provided the auto barons with weapon
against militant workers in their plants, giving
powerful squirt to company unions?
1t was Mr.. William Green
Who was it, Mr.. Green that told the steel work
ers not to strike against the abomnabe conditions
in the mills that told the workers to go home and
have faith in Roosevelt?
Tt was Mr.. William Green
Who it that attacked the San Francisco
general strike at its very height in public state
ment, declaring that the strike was only local
issue" when the most blind could see that it
concerned the whole labor movement?
1t was Mr.. William Green
Who was It that aided the Roosevelt administra-
ton in building the strkebreaking MIRA boards
who tried his best to hold back the strike move
ment for better conditions, who attempted to pin
the faith of the workers on the NR.A?
It was Mr.. William Green.
MR.. GREEN attempts to frighten people with the
AVA DOGGY of revolution attempting to twist the role
of the Communists in the economic struggles
What are the relationship between these every
day struggles for higher wages, union recognition
and the question of revolution?
We Communists state that through the every
day struggles of the workers for the betterment of
their conditions, the workers will find that they
have to carry on a revolutionary struggle against
the capitalist system. AS Comrade Earl Browder
general secretary of the Communist Party stated it
at the 9Th National Convention of our Party:
we understand that the workers sooner or
latter must do away with capitalism and establish
Socialist system If fight for higher wages
now hastens the coming of Socialism, hastens
the coming of the working class revolution so
much the better. We will fight all the harder for
higher wages"
GREEN'S pogrom declaration states that "Commu-
v nism is anti-American"
Is 1t anti-American to fight for unemployment
insurance.? Is it anti-Amercan to fight for higher
wages. for the right to organize?
On the contrary. 1t is in the finest traditions
of the American people carry on struggle against
oppression, for the needs of the masses.
GREENS statement it must be noted contains
sinister references to the Soviet government It
states that They (the Communists) became n
creasingly active Immediately following the recog-
milton OF Soviet Russia by the government of the
United States"
This blast clumsy attempt to injure dipo-
matte relations between the Soviet Union and the
United States, is timed appropriately with the in
creasing war provocation on the eastern borders of
the Soviet Union by japanese imperialism AS
such it is deliberate effort to aid in the whipping
up of an anti-Soyiet sentiment within the country
and. particularly, in the A. f. of L.
Green Utilities the attacks of the socialist lead