The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-12

leader Of the petty bourgeoise labor
ofAcialdom that controls the American
labor movement.
Hypocriey.
The officials OF the I. L. G. w. u,
on the other hand, open the conven-
ton to the tune of the International,
then proceeds to condemn everything
that hymn implies. They condemn
fascism but their actions can be SYM
bolized more correctly in the Fascist
hymn of hate than in the Interna-
tioAal.
Almost the entire delegation of
Local 9, the largest local in the In
ternational. is being objected, too, but
they are not ready to bring 1t before
the convention. The objections in
this case brings out the rawness Of
the administration dealings and their
crude effort to keep control of thte
union.
The regular procedure is to take
up the locals by numbers but in the
case Of Number 9 they want to COM
promise. They are quite willing to
seat the delegates of Number ire
spective OF their league membership,
providing that they will promise to
put administration men in control of
the joint board. The end of the
fourth day indicates how desperate
they are, and how we'll they under
stand that control of the convention
by their methods weakens rather than
gains the support of the membership.
Spend Money Like Water.
Fifty thousand dollars spent and the
business for which the convention
was called not even touched. Not
one-half of the contested delegates
disposed of, the expelled members
cases still to come before the conven-
ton. Every time Sigman speaks it
costs the organization $780," is the
jecular remark of the convention
which will be taken in a different
light by the membership who have to
foot the bill.
The Sigman-Pe rlstein-Fineberg ma
chine works well when it comes to a
ruthless, violent method Of enforcing
their policy, but when they begin to
explain it, they get terribly mixed up.
1 overheard one Of their staunch sup
porters remark to another of the same
breed, "Why don't they bring it to a
vote without cumming the game by
talking; the longer they talk the
verse they make it look. Let the
others do the talking, we have the
votes"
The first objections to the militants
were made on technical ground, but
the arguments why they should not
be seated in the convention was that
they we're members of the league.
Perlutein spoke for an hour condemn
ing the league. the Workers Party,
sneeriAg at amalgamation and in
dependent political action. Fineberg
took up as much time in the same
manner and on this type of argument
asked that these delegates be un-
seated.
Rose Wortis Gives Battle.
Rose Wortis Of New York, was OBJ
ieeted to upon these same grounds,
but VIXEN she tried to explain the
policy Of the league she was not only
ruled out Of order but was removed
from the hscr by the sergeant-at-arms
On two occasions.
MetrIch Of Chicago was unseated
on objection made by q former scab.
Ter, aAOther Chicago delegate, made
this declaration on the floor Of the
convention, yet the man who made
the objection and takes Metrich's
place in the convention did not even
have the nerve TO deny It.
The fimsy excuse for removing
Metrieh shows to what extremes they
have goAe to remeve the left wing
spokesman from the floor. He was
charged for being responsible, some
time between the last convention and
this one, for n stoppase Of work in
his shop. He had nothing to do with
the stoppsge but that Is net the point.
He was chairman Of the shop when
the stoppage occurred; the grievance
was settled; nobody thought Of blam-
Ing him at the time, he went back
with the workers as chairman, no
charges we're brought against him or
even thought about. He ran for dele
gate and defeated an administration
candidate, the man that is accused of
being a scab, and the only thing that
they could trump up was this stop
page OF work that everybody had com
pletely forgot about except Peristein
and hts lacksys. =
Against All Progress.
This is the method pursued in all
the objections. The chairman Of the
credentials committee let the cat out
OF the bag, when on concluding his
report on one OF the contested dele
gates, produced leafet to prove why
this delegate should be uRseatsd. 1t
was the platform on which the dele
gates was running for delegate. He
said, here Is Che proof; yesterday we
unseated delegates because they be-