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 sciously for reasons which these sheets state frankly. The New York Evening Post says that the present reactionary campaign is:

So this is the old struggle for "100 percent Americanism" in a new form. It is interesting to note that in its defense of labor officialdom The Post manages to use the word "American" four times in two lines. In addition to being "the wisest leaders" the official elements are patriots of the purest type in the estimation of the capitalist spokesmen. The Post continues:

But there is one drawback. It is that "the local organizations", that is, the workers, are not following "their leaders" in this fight.

HE Post in the above extract echoes the plaint of the socialist and official trade union press i. e., it infers that the Communist workers seek only to capitalize union struggle for the interests of their party without regard for the immediate interests of the union and its members. This charge is formulated by The Post as an "attempt to manipulate American labor organizations for political ends."

One will search the files of the official trade union and capitalist press for the last twelve years without finding any denunciation of the republican and democrat parties for their open corruption of unions and union officials for their own interests—interests which are those, not of the working class, or even a section of it, but solely the interests of the capitalist class of this country.

Have the huge sums of money spent in debauching the electorate in general and the trade unions in particular by Frank L. Smith of Illinois, whose campaign was financed by Samuel Insull, head of the open shop movement in that state, called forth any denunciation of his party as a party making an "attempt to