The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-07

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Frayne, organizer in New
York, to ''reorganize" this
local.
The play was performed inn
mediately and the result was
that from a membership of
four to five hundred, only
thirty or fifty were left in the re-
organized union. Neither Mr.. Com
pers, nor his faithful tool, Mr..
Frayne, nor his followers in the
union worried very much what hap
pened with these hundreds Of Office
workers. And why should they
worry about them? They don't
need the members, they are not in
terested in the least about the fate
of the workers. What they want
is the "union," a "safo and sane"
machine. There is no doubt that
they have succeeded perfectly we'll
in their destructive and cowardly
mission
WatehfuI Toms Busy.
At any rate, now the reorgan-
lied local with only a handful of
office workers and socIaMst leaders,
Mr.. Bright and Mr.. Bohm, president
and secretary respectively, is "safe"
forever. The rebel Communists are
smashed" and they will never even
dare to come near this organiza-
ton, so thought Mr.. Gompers, Mr..
Frayne and their brothers-in-arms
in the union.
Time went on. The intolerable
condition of the office workers in
New York forced them to hunt up
the organization. They found the
&. S and A. U. No. 1886 and one
by one they began to come and join
1t. Now, the great protein before
the appointed union officials was to
watch that the undesirable" ele-
ments might not come Tor sneak,
as they say) into the organization.
And they worked, very diligently
spared no time or energy to search
the minds and thoughts of every
office worker that came to ask for
admission into the union. Thanks
to the "hard" and energetic" work
of our appointed officials, the men,
bership of our union has passed the
couple hundred mark.
Inevitable Happens.
And the inevitable happened. At
the end of last year we had cleo
tons of our officials. Comrade An
ton Bimba was elected as a dele
gate to the Central Trades and
Labor Council of Greater New York.
The president of the union, Mr..
Bright, and the secretary, Mr..
Bohnn, Immediately smelled "dan-
ger" because they already knew
that BinIba was not one of their
safe" and (in) sane machine. They
talked the thing over and came to
the conclusion that it wouldn't pay
to raise this question at the union
meeting and force new elections
upon the membership. They were
not sure whether they would sue
coed and win their case against Com
rade Bimba. So finally, they de-
cided to behave ''honorably" and
tie the hands of Comrade Bimba
in the Central Trades and Labor
Council by passing a decision in
the union that our delegates must
vote unanimously on all questions
in the Council. In view of the fact
that we, the respectable" socialists
have two delegates in the Council
against one Communist our position
will be secure and the Communist
will be unable to make a "bloody
revolution" there and set up the
"soviets" in Greater New York.
From now on "peace and good will"
prevailed in our organization. We
listened to the reports of our Off
Gals, applauded them, talked a lot
and planned how to organize the
Office workers of New York. We,
the members, began to see some
hope of building up our organiza-
tion and bringing into it at least a
great portion of the white-collar
slaves of the metropolis.
Gompers Issues Ukase.
Such was our illusion. But the
president and secretary Of our
union did not see things in the
same light as we did. They be-
came uneasy and worried about the
Communist in our union. If they
cannot expel him, they must at
least Save" the organization and
not allow him to set up the go
VETS inside Of it, for it may en-
danger their jobs and especially
when brother Bright was contem-
plating a $50 job for himself.
Therefore, regardless OF the fact
that the constitution of our union
Article Nv, Section u SAYS that
the delegates to the Central Trades
and Labor Council are included in
the executive committee, they
would not call Comrade Bimba to
the meetings Of the committee
Then the convention of the Work.
ers Party of America came and Mr.