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American Federation of Labor, at its 1920 convention, resolved:

This resolution contains a very conservative statement of the anti-labor and anti-democratic nature of the Soviet dictatorship and the reasons of organized labor for repudiating it.

In response to the overwhelming pressure of public opinion, including not only organized labor but all elemjents of the American people, Secretary of State Colby,