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 Rh opposed to the interests of the toiling masses of every land, and which will further swell the already bloated fortunes of American finance-capitalists.

These facts, together with the constant attack of the capitalists of all lands against the world's working class, makes the question of international labor unity especially acute. The American working class, because of the high technical standards of this country and the dominating position of American capitalism, has an especial interest in promoting international working-class unity. But the most stubborn and resourceful enemy of this unity is the present official leadership of the American Federation of Labor.

The present "international" policies of the A. F. of L. leadership are the policies of the U. S. State Department, applied to trade union affairs. When American Imperialism repudiated the League of Nations the A. F. of L. withdrew from the International Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam); the A. F. of L. followed the State Department in boycotting and maliciously slandering the Workers' Government of the Soviet Union; when American Imperialism launched its post-war drive for further conquest of Latin-America, the A. F. of L. applied its "Monroe Doctrine of Labor" by setting up the Pan-American Federation, supporting the military, political and economic subjugation of the republics to the South by Wall Street. The A. F. of L. officialdom supports the international organ of allied imperialism, the Labor Office of the League of Nations; it opposes most bitterly the real international organization of labor as expressed in the Red International of Labor Unions; it rejects the project of a world unity labor congress; it tries to destroy all attempts to unite the labor movement with the struggle for freedom of the oppressed peoples of the world, such as the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference.

The vital interests of the American working class demand a struggle for international labor unity. To this end, the T. U. E. L. puts forward the following international program:

(a) Establish close fraternal relations with the great trade union movement of Soviet Union; send official and unofficial delegations of workers to Soviet Russia; demand the unconditional recognition of the Soviet Union by the U. S. Government.

(b) Which unites the most advanced sections of the world's working class, and which has shown the road to victorious organization of the world labor movement. Oppose the "Amsterdam International" which is so corrupted by its rival