The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-10
SOCIALISTS TRY
!. TO PUT DAMPER
ON BAKERY FIGHT
Try to Hanstring Real
Organization Campaign
Especial to The Daily Worker

in ideas and staggering in the bread
line of reaction, the socialists, led by
Arabian Shiplacotf, urged, as the only
way to working class emancipation
that the slaves in the bakery indus.
tries start a campaign to induce the
population of the city of New York
to buy bread in bakeries, groceries
and delicatessen joints who carry the
union label. in speeches and resolu-
tons made at the conference of Bak-
ers and United Hebrew Trades held
here Sunday.
The conference was an evident at
tempt to widen the breach between
ton of Labor and the Amalgamated
Food Workers who are making every
effort to effect unity in spite or the
reactionary bureaucracy that has kept
up fight between the two organiza-
tions for over ten years.
| At a meeting of the Amalgamated
I Food Workers held recently at Coop.
er Union. it was decided to inaugurate
a campaign of organization and seek
cooperation with the Bakers Union
in an effort to unite in the fight
against the bosses and line up the
rank and file in the entire bakery and
food industries for harmony and con
certed action among the workers.
Called a counter-movs.
This effort Of the Amalgamated
Food Workers was deeply resented by
the reactionaries and the meeting OF
last Sunday was held for the purpose
| of counteracting the good start that
had been made toward an understand
ing between the different organfza.
/ tions.
There were 315 delegates from 14e
organizations present, representing
branches of the Workmen's Circle, the
socialist party and women's organic
atoms.
The socialists were in control and
speeches were made by vladek and
Rogoff OF the Forward, Hugh Frayne
of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, Pach-
odsky of the capitalist Morning Jour
nal and Shiplacoff of the socialists.
Tlmid Socialists Aghast
A resolutions committee brought in
report advising all who eat bread
/ to buy from grocers, bakers and deli
catessen stores that had bread with
/ the union label. The timid, but in
comparison flaming revolutionary,
Pachodsky, of the capitalist Morning
/ Trr. al
populace be invited to a strike against
| the grocers, bakers and delicatessen
/ joints that handled scab bread, but
was sat on heavily by the socialists
for his Moscow imported ideas and
his suggestion Of this bloody revolu-
ton method.
The total lack Of any suggestion in
the resolution for organization and
/ demand for better wages and condi-
tions inspired a minority report from
| part OF the resolutions committee,
which report called for real unity and
a campaign OF organization and ANAL
gamation of all the bakers and food
workers. This minority report was
eyed over by the strong heads of the
conference and was not allowed to
be read.
Shiplaeoff Becomes HysterieaI.
Whereupon Shiplacoff launched in
to a spasm of hysterical denunciation
Of all progressives telling his hearers
to clean out all the rats and mice
with knives at the back 10 stab the
nice cats" or something else which
he did not make sufficiently clear to
be fully grasped by the rank and file
who seemed to be unable to relish
the classification as rats and mice"
And as a result there was a mighty
roar and a ditto noise that came pref
ty nearly calling upon pussy" TO
shut up. But after some Ave minutes
OF celebration by the rats and mice"
as he had baptized the rank and file.
he went on attacking especially the
Jewish Freiheit for its policy OF unity
OF all the workers.
Then the conference went home. the
socialists OF New York, almost bak-
ers' dozen Of them, triumphantiy re-
solved 10 emancipate the working
class OF the world by purchasing bread
at grocers, bakers and delicatessen
stores where the union label is favor
ed. Pachodsky the capitalist editor
sinking away, like a guilty LaFollet-
to republican, for having suggested
his aforesaid revolutionary plan Of ac-
ton.