The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11

has and is declining right now?
Any upheaval in the world Of econ
omics or finances, which is today
always Imminent, win send the
American dollar to the bottom of
the pit Where then win be our
great victory?
And the scale is made to expire in
the middle Of the summer Of 1925
the slackest season Of the whole
year which gives the publishers
assurance that the union will be
at disadvantage when this
scale expires. If the publishers
themselves had written the scale
and appointed their own scale COM
mittee they could not have done bet
ter for themselves in this respect.
In face of this damning fact, Act
ing President Howard boosted to
the membership that at the end of
next December they would have the
best scale in the jurisdiction of the
/. T. II. He conveniently neglected
to inform the membership that
right now Chicago has a better
scale and that the cost of living is
far lower in Chicago than here. The
Chicago night scale is two dollars
more than ours, but a year hence
we will c atch up with Chicago.
However, Chicago is nothing to
boast about as their scale was pur-
chased at horrible price-by sac
rifcing the right of appeal from dis
charge, Placing the righe Of APP
peal in the hands Of Joint com
mittee of members of the union
and publishers instead Of in the
hands Of the union. Chicago is al
so tied for two years.
The result of the meeting was
that SIG voted to accept the pub
fishers offer, while 26c voted
against. This is only a total vote
Of 1913 out Of an attendance Of at
least $500, so over half Of those
present at the meeting expressed
their contempt of the imposition
upon them by refusing to vote.
Unable to stand criticism Of their
perfidy to the membership those
responible for the scale loudly pro-
claimed there was no perfidy in
volved. Unable to excuse their
bureaucratic sitting of the voices of
the membership they hypocritically
rTated about democracy Refusing
to permit the membership to hear
the argument against their pro-
posals they solemnly assured the
members they could exercise their
democratic rights by voting for
something they had heard but one
side of. Processing democracy,
they stife free speech, the very
cornerstone of democracy.
Demand New Deal.
This is tyranny And tyranny
cannot go unchallenged. Therefore
smash this steam roller, already
creaking in every joint and mis-
taking its weird rattle for power.
Deal new deall Instead Of per-
hitting Rouse to hand-pick his Ex-
ecutive Committee, elect them from
the membership and make them re-
sponsible to the membership.
This is another progressive meas
ure that has always been advocated
by the Frogs at ]. T. II. convent
tions. At every l. T. u. conven-
ton of late years the Progs have
fought against appointments Of i'm
portant committees If that is good
for the Convention, which lasts one
week, it is a hundred times more
important for our local union. where
the Executive Committee constant
ly and permanently functions.
Down with this shameless sup
preston of the viii of the member
shipl
Place the control of the affairs of
the organization in the hands of the
Representatives of the membership!
The issue is plain-democracy or
despotisml