The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-15
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CONSIDER B. 80.
PLAN At MEET
Officials Plotting to
ExpeI Radicals
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DETROIT, Mioh., Sept. A.
The convention of the Inter-
national Association of MaohIn-
lists, the first since 1920, opens
here tomorrow at the Hotel
fuller.
About 800 delegates areRex-
pected to be in attendance TO
consider the important pro-
blems facing the organization.
Fight "6. G. o." Plan.
Outstanding among the oontroveg-
sial matters before the convention is
the so-called "B. G. o. pIan," initiat-
ed by President William H. Johnston,
of the machinists, under which the
unions become efficiency agencies of
the railroads in return for the privi-
lege of collecting dues.
The "B. & o. plan" is the especial
object Of attack from the left wing
Of the machinists' organization, strik-
ing as it does at the very basic prin-
ciples of unionism, and a bitter fight
is expected because the officials have
committed themselves to this COLA
boration with the employers so com
pletely that they can hardly find a
compromise.
Fifty AmaIgamstion Resolutions.
Hundreds Of resolutions and amend
ments to the laws of the union have
been submitted by the local unions.
More than so resolutions calling for
amalgamation of the unions along in
dustrial lines, for the establishment
of labor party, for recognition Of
Soviet Russia, against the b. & O.
PLAN" for the reinstatement Of sus-
pended and expelled members, are
already filed for the convention.
Local Union No. 459, Of st. Paul.
has proposed an amendment to the
constitution, providing that the pm
ion shall actively work for amaigam-
alton and a labor party.
Try to Outlaw Workers Party.
The general executive board has
made decision, just before the open
ing Of the convention, against the ap-
peal of seven suspended members in
Toledo. This decision demands that
before the members can be re-instated
they must renounce membership in
the Workers Party and in the Trade
Union Educational League.
This case is an attempt to launch
campaign of explosions similar to
that recently carried out by the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union.
The officials have been holding the
Toledo case in allegiance for months,
right up to the eve Of the convention,
in order that they may be able to
keep 1t off Of the floor of that gath
ering, and yet at the same time claim
authority from the convention to pro-
coed with their disruptive policy. The
suspended members will appeal to
the convention to give a complete
hearing to the case, however, and
will make every attempt to stop this
policy that threatens destruction to
the union.
Expulsion Is Threatened.
1t is. well-known in the machinists
union that the suspensions and ex-
pulsions that are taking place are
to crush opposition to the company
union" "B. G o. plan"
II is pointed out that the officials
are not expelling stool pigeons, like
in the Lennon case in Pittsburgh, nor
acting against such Fascist organiza-
tons as the Ku Klux Khan, but that
1t is only against the rank and file
who protest against the dictatorship
Of the officials, in its attempt to ram
the "B. e. o. plan" down the throats
Of the membership, that the suspen-
sion and expulsion power is called in
to play.