The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-12
|. v. v. PLANS
IMMENSE UNION
Want to Establish a World
Union of All Labor /.
Radicals
WAR PROPAGANDA
AMONG FOREIGNERS

Hope to Effect Better Organization
League of Nations Impossible Elk
cept as Strike Breaking Agency
Hires Assistant for Foreign Editor.
CHICAGO, March l9.-General head
quarters of the Industrial Workers of
the World is preparing for a period of
renewed aggressive activity. That is
perfectly apparent from proceedings of
the provisional general executive
board which convened here short
time ago. When during the war the
federal government swooped down
upon the /. W. w. and sent its leaders
to the penitentiary, this smashing blow
turned the organization s attention to
self defense. Some cases remain to be
defended yet, but THE proponents of
the one-big union, now find that item
q minor one and are letting their
thought expand along lines of world
| union of the labor radicals beyond any
thing attempted by the l. W. w. be-
fore the war, in addition to national
expansion.
Minutes of the proceedings of the
provisional general executive board are
published in the current issue of The
New Solidarity. the official organ pub
lished at I. W. w. headquarters here in
| Chicsgo. This report Of the general
executive board meeting sets forth
steps the I. w W. leaders propose TO
1 fba NJ ati MI to Epo
| cial methods, to enlarge the field of its
| activities and to push out it class war
propaganda among the foreign-speak-
| ing workers of the United States.
/ Incidentally, one of the special arti-
cles in this issue of the /. W. ". paper
/ indicates the point of view of the l. W.
/ w. toward the league of nations. This
is entitled, League of Nations impos-
lRible--except as strike breaking agen,
/ cy''
| Some of the paragraphs IN the report
ed proceedings are as follows:
/, The coal miners should be estab,
lished on firm basis Some one should
! be appointed to take charge of them
and allowed to organize. Carried unan
imously.
EMOTION made and carried that WI
concur with the recommendations OF
fellow worker Stone TO start an indus
trial union among the packing house
employees. Unanimously carried
That the /. W. W proposes to ge
on more businesslike basis and pre-
sent better appearance in its station
cry was manifest in minutes such a
these: "Motion made and seconde,
that we concur with resolution tina
: better material be used in cards
:. stamps and all other supplies. Carried
!. unanimously.
J, EMOTION made and seconded that "
concur in resolution that we 90 on rec
!. ord to have universal Bookkeeping
i system and also all report sheets an
j other official stationery and CORES
j pondenee. Carried unanimously.
" Motion made and seconded that "
make h Recommendation TO the cor
: vcntion that we have travelling aud
% ktor appointed by and subject to tn
Il authority of the board. UnRnimousl
Il carried.
t. Provision was made toward bringin
ID delegates to the convention. Motto
g made and seconded that % per Ger
ed of the money derived from the sale {
~ organization stamps 90 into mil
t. age fund for the convention, this
&c be done until there is sufficient none
he in the fund to cover all delegates mill
IT age. aud that we place notice in Il
press to this effect. Unanimously ca
RED.
mt Motion made and carried that i
I'D dustrial unions pay their delegat
he mileage to the general convention ar
I'D that general headquarters shall pf
on the return mileage of the delegate
on Carried.
ir- Signs of the /. ". W. interest
se, spreading the propaganda of : one b
in unionism' among the foreign -speakil
he people of the United States are null
is living. For instance, in the general c
de- ecutive board minutes was the folio
et- ing:
nd Z Report of the Hungarian paper W
then brought before the board. t
leditor, Andrew Newman, explained
OF request contained in this report til
a the general organization pay the was
d of a fellow worker to assist him in
re- office work part of each week and spe
The the rest of the time organizing I
est Hung an-speaking workers in Ill
his OILS, Indiana and Wisconsin, saying tt
oes such a man would moro than pay
II himself.
DIRK esMotion was made and second
Be- that we accept this report, subject
ac- an auditing committee, and we g
oeo-i cur in The recommendation, the III
nti- employed to be allowed 80 days
TO make good financially or other1i
Unanimously carried
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