The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-19
I ellis of Presid en-
Green's Guarantees
To Employers

This is the supremely fine art of
labor betrayal: To make workers
and their organizations miss the
strategic moment.
1t is a matter of record that at
the height Of the strike Of the ten
maritime unions on the West Coast,
at the height Of the general strike
that paralyzed the Bay Counties
industry, when 10000 troops. police
and armed thugs were massed
against the workers., President
Green issued a statement saying
that "the strike is unauthorized"
and that ut has no national signi-
ficance."
Ryan and Rossi-Pals
1t is a matter of record that
Green's satellite, Joseph P. Ryan,
head of the International Long
shoremen's ssociation-whom the
rank and file had repudiated and
forced to leave the Coast because
he tried to put over a company
union agreement, Ryan, the head Of
the union whose two members muir
dered by Mayor Rossis police were
followed to their graves by 10000
workers in the greatest demonstra-
ton Of proletarian protest the Bay
Counties ever SaW-at the height of
the fascist terror wired to Mayor
Rossi: "As one good pal to another,
wish 1 was with you. Everything
will come out all right"
1t is a matter Of record that Pres
ident Howard of the International
Typographical Union-one of the
main hierarchS of "labor'-kept his
union members at work in San
Francisco setting into type the vi
ciouS anti-working class and anti
labor diatribes Of the employers. 1t
is a matter of record that Howard
did this foul thing without the
usual excuse of a scored contract.
The I. T. U. contract had expired.
The price of his Judas pact was the
restoration Of 10 per cent reduc-
ton which would have been re-
stored anyway.
It is a matter of record that on
the day in which a vote on a gen.
eral strike in support of the water
front workers was impending in
the Seattle Central Labor Council,
President Green wired that the
Council had no authority to take
such action and that wire was used
by the Council officialdom to check
the general strike movement.
Right at this same moment the
waterfront workers were resisting
the attacks of hundreds of heavily
armed police and deputies led by
Mayor Smith.
Only Partial Record
This is only partial record of
the strikebreaking acts and utter
anceS of A. F. of l.. officialdom in
the last year and half. But it is
sufficient to show that the big in
dustrial and financial overlords
know from actual experience that
they have nothing to fear from the
recognized labor leaders"
That is one Of the main reasons
they are now launching a major
offensive all along the labor front.
They have already had their be-
lief in their allies in the labor
movement confirmed. The sched-
uled meeting of 108 heads of A. F.
of L. unions where, it was stated,
ways and means of assisting the
textile strikers would be worked
out, has been postponed, A. F. Of
L. officials, witnessing the mobiliza-
ton of some 10000 troops and other
armed forces against the textile
workers, the declaration of martial
law in important areas, the setting
up of barbed wire stockades to i'm
prison strikers arrested by the
troops, knowing Of the merciless
warfare waged against the strikers
by the employers and their govern
ment, have not lifted a finger in
protest.
Even in convention where the
voice of the rank and file can make
itself heard only indirectly, it is
impossible that the issues of life
and death for the labor movement
which arise from the capitalist Of
fensive and the surrender policy of
the official leaders can be altogether
sidetracked and buried as was pos
siple in the 5Srd convention, re-
hearsed and stage-managed openly
by the chief henchmen of the
Roosevelt administration with its
halo still untitled in the eyes of
almost everybody except the Com
munists. Times have changed.