The Archive · 1925

Refuse to Affliate with Red Workers

Atlantic City, Oct. 7.

The position of the American Federation of Labour with regard to the Russian Isbour.movement was vividly indicated in the reply of Mr. Green, the President of the American Federation, to an address by Mr. Purcell, mp., the representative of the British Trade Union Congress, who criticized the Americans as the slowest in accept expressed a hope American Federation would send delegations to Russia to establish lose fraternal relations with Russian workers.

Mr. Green, amid very great enthusiasm, thereupon announced that the American Federation would ha: never affiliate with the present Russian labour movement, and added: "We are unwilling to pay the price of casting our lot with a class that would destroy us if it could."—Reuter's American Service.

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