The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-22
Ill. G. v. EDICT
ON EXPELLED IS
CALLED STUPID
tombstone ReUiews New
Sign1Gn Declaration


the General Executive Board of
the international Ladies' Gar
msnt Workers Union regarding
expelled members as stupid, j.
w. tombstone, assistant secre-
tary of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League, declares that the
fight to secure a revolutionary
leadership for the union will
continue until it is victorious.
Johnstone's statement follows:
EdIct on Expelled.
A GAIN the International Ladies'
~ Garment Workers official family
have shown their contempt for the
rank and file, in the action of the
general executive board in handing
down the stupid decision that the ex-
PEELED members who were adherents
OF the T. U. Z. 1. can rejoin the or
ganization as new members, only on
probation.
That during this period Of probation
they will not be allowed to hold Of
fee and will, for two years, be care
fully watched.
And If they should commit any act
not in line with the corrupt and
treacherous Sigman-Fe inberg-P erlstein
policy, they will be forthwith ex-
PEELED.
Officials Are Destruetionists.
This decision, Immediately follow
ing the mass revolt of the member
ship in New York City, a meeting
called by and under the leadership Of
the T. u. E. L. against the open be-
trayal of these very officials, only
emphasizes the fact that this small
band of INSCRIPTIONS officials are de-
termined to destroy the organization
rather than yield to the demands of
the membership.
The settled policy of the G. E. B.
is to carry on an unrelenting war
against the militants in the union, and
to completely surrender to the en-
pIoyers.
The meeting held in Cooper Union,
called by the T. U. e. L., where thou
sands of members were turned away,
showed how extensive the revolt
against these bureaucrats has gone.
Local unions, formerly under the con-
troll of the machine, joined in this
great protest under the leadership of
the t. U. E. L., in spite Of the fact
that the T. u. E. l.. has been outlawed
by the royal decree Of the G. e. B. and
a packed convention. This mass
revolt, which is deepening every day,
is against the cowardly betrayal by
a corrupt leadership, who deliberately
crushed a winning strike and placed
the fate of $4,000 cloakmakers at the
tender mercies of a committee Of
bankers and politicians.
Decision Is an Insult.
The decision Of the G. E. B., follow
ing this tremendous protest, is an in
suit and challenge to the intelligence
of the membership. Sigman and COM
pany are having the time of their lives
trying to find ways and means Of stop
ping the revolutionary activities of
the T. U. e. L. Slugging, discrimina-
tions, removal from Office. explosions
from the union. then the complete out
having of the T. U. E. L., has been
their program Of action up to date,
and the answer to all these attacks
is the Cooper Union protest meeting.
Retain Expulsion Club.
Now Sigman and his Comrades" of
the Second International are being
forced to pretend to take back to
membership the expelled members,
but they propose to again hold the
club Of expulsion over heads in order
to stop their activities.
They are going to watch them very
carefully for two years. Why two
years? This is probably SIgman's
idea Of strategy aimed to keep these
militants out Of the next convention.
The rank and file has also been
carefully watching, and what they
saw was the official family betray the
interests of the workers that they are
supposed to protect. And the Cooper
Union protest meeting was their
answer to what they saw.
Union ls Weakened.
Outlawing the T. U. r. L. weakens
the union, but does not eliminate the
IT, U. q. L. from the struggle. All the
coercion OF capitalism cannot stop
the league from leading the workers
in the struggle. The struggle OF the
Needle Trades Section of the T. U.
Il. L. against the reactionary conduct
OF ,Sigman-Feinberg and Co, makes
miIitants faster than they can be ex-
PEELED.
The militants in the !. L. G.. w. u,
following the lead Of the T. U. 2. L.,
are determined TO clean house. They
are determined to replace the present
incompetent Official family and their
policy OF "the identity OF interest