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 interested only in "selling" the idea that fighting leadership is bad for the trade unions.

The simple truth, in a campaign of this kind, is an obvious handicap.

EXT we will see how the capitalist and official labor press are engaged in a joint selling campaign to put over a still more dangerous doctrine.

The dangerous doctrine which right wing leadership and capitalist spokesmen join in preaching is our old enemy, "identity of interest of labor and capital," now put forward as "worker-employer co-operation," or in a still fairer guise as "union-management co-operation."

In the December issue of the American Federationist, an editorial by President William Green entitled, "CompaI1Y Unions" (in which the head of the trade union movement puts forward reasons why capitalists should deal with the trade unions rather than form company unions) makes the following statements:

Here we have an almost perfectly complete description of the "worker-employer-union-management co-operation" paradise. It requires no comment except to say that it is 100 per cent proof of the left wing charge that the policy of the present trade union leadership has as its object the transformation of unions into "efficiency agencies" of the capitalists.

I urge every worker in the United States, whether he be a member of a trade union or not, to get a copy of the December issue of the American Federationist and read carefully the two editorials from which I have quoted in these articles. I am sure that they will stimulate thought. Intelligent trade unionists especially will be delighted to know that they are