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the Freie Arbeiter Stimme, a "revolu-
tionary" organ, $780,; Jewish Socialist
Verband, $780,; The Kropotkin Socie-
ty, an anarchist organization, 5000;
The Messenger, a socialist paper, $500.
the National Socialist Party, $1O0.;
the New Majority, $3.50; the New
York Call, $4,000; The Rand School,
$780, For the socialist campaign, $500;
and in long list of other conventions
you will see that it is an established
custom for the International to give
financial support to anarchists, social
lists, and other revolutionary organiza-
tions Of all sorts, and the same organ
izations are also being supported by
the various joint boards.
Never Considered Violation
Only recently the joint board has
contributed the sum of $500. to re-
evolutionary Jewish paper in Poland
somewhere,
If we would go over the records Of
our organization, we would find that
organizations of such a nature have
always been supported not only by
the International, by the joint boards,
but also by each and every local union
of the International, and it was never
/ interpreted that these expenditures or
donations are in violation of Secion 10
of Article of the constitution.
1t says here in Section 1 of Article
IL, Trial and appeals"-it reads as
follows:
Section 1. Except as elsewhere
provided in this convention for auto
matte suspension or expulsion or for
fixed fines or penalties, no member of
the l. L. G. w. u. shall be fined, sus-
pended, or expelled; no local union
shall be reorganized or suspended, and
no officer of the l. l.. G. w, U. or Of
any joint board or district council or
local union, shall be removed from Of
! fee without proper notice of charges
and fair opportunity to be heard in
defense; but an officer under charges,
under Section of this article, may be
suspended by the executive board of
his organization, the joint board or the
general executive board, pending
trial"
Now let us see what Section of
this article says. 1t reads as follows:
s"Section s. Any elective or ap-
pointive officer of local union, joint
board, district council, or general ex-
ecutive board, may be removed from
Office for any violation of this consti-
tuition, or of the bylaws of the body
of which he is an officer, or because Of
the commission of any act which may
be calculated to impair the useful
ness of the organization, or which is
unbecoming to the dignity of the Of
fee held by him"
1lee
peThis article certainly does not apply
toethe members of the executive board
of Local No. 2 First of all, l want the
committee to understand that most of
the members have nothing to do with
the arranging of speakers for the May
Day meeting. Even if that meeting
impaired the usefulness of our organ
ization, because the Times did not
write favorable report of the meet
ing, which is very far-fetched thing
to interpret an article in this way
the members of the executive board
of Local 2 cannot be classed as the
officers referred to in Section 6.
We have always known in the joint
board that an officer does not mean
an executive board member. An Off
Ger means a business agent, man.
ager, vice-president, and a local man.
ager. Executive board members are
not classed as officers. They are simp-
ly called officers in this trial for the
purpose of getting rid of them and for
no other purpose.
1t is known to everybody in the I'M
ion that at the time when the joint
board used to have IAN executive ses-
sion where only delegates of the joint
board and officers are permitted to at
tend" the very same persons who are
in this trial classed as officers were
not permitted to be present at the
meetings, because, it was said, only
delegates to the joint board and off,
GERS of the union are permitted and
executive board members of the local
are not officers. They we're not trust
ed to attend meetings of the joint
board as officers. And so far as the
expenditures upon which the charges
In this trial are based, everyone knows
that the executive board had nothing
to do with mourning these expenses in
their details. So far as checking the
bills and personally seeing what kind
of expenses are being made, this is
only done by the officers committee
which consists of three or four exc.
cutive board members.
Accusations Are Ridiculous
Therefore, to make wholesale accu.
sations against members of a board
for a bill which Is claimed IN he moi