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Show AMERICAN LABOR AND RUSSIA The American Federation of Labor continues to show sound judgment in its stand against any official intimacy between America and Soviet Russia. The executive council of the federation recently re-cently elaborated its stand by issuing a warning against the sending of a mission to Soviet Russia in the name of American labor and Hacking certain American organizations which are believed to be communistic in their purposes. Some labor men and others interested in Russia have been pia.mi'ig '.he sending of some sort of commission to Russia. The puipose of &uch a commission would be to make an "investigation of. tho economic, social, industrial and political conditions" in Russia Rus-sia and other nations to be visited. There has been some suspicion, suspi-cion, however, that the commission has a deeper purpose than this. We seriously doubt the good faith of such a self-constituted commission," the executive department of the federation said. "We cannot believe any representative or officer of organizations affiliated affili-ated with O.ii American Federation of labor will accept a membership member-ship on oiich a commission." Mention was also made of organizations organiza-tions "assuming to speak for labor, in the name of labor and which the exutivv council believes, are communistic in make-up, in principle prin-ciple and in purpose. " It :f in'leed fortuaate that the leaders in the American Federation Federa-tion of Lab. i .ealize the menace to all Americans, of the insidious spread ' ccmni uristic propaganda. No class of Americans has more to lose h.-w a communiscic assault in the United States than tho working peoi-lo themselves. American workingmen are stead-' ily advancing in eery way. The contrast with the working people of Russia is i id' ed vivid and striking. In case of a communist victory vic-tory in the Ln.ttcl States, most of the rich, realizing the approach of the storm, Wiu!ci doubtless get away. It would be those who have tc rerppil bhir d whj would really suffer. |