The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-08

has not been proved that the Work
ers Party has adopted the program
that was read and quoted here sew
eral times, and furthermore, this is
not a program, but it is a thesis or
basis from which to work out pro-
gram, and there is quite a difference
between putting a few theses from
which a program shall be drawn, and
the program itself.
And even if it was program of the
Workers Party, it does not necessar-
lily follow that you can convict mem
Der for belonging to party which
has a program that stands for defend
ing certain things without permitting
that this particular member actually
has fulfilled that part of the program.
Have Right to Belong to Workers
Party.
The Workers Party has not been
made an illegal party by our union.
1t has not been made illegal by New
York State or by the United Sttaes.
On the contrary, it is a legal party Of
the United States which had its own
candidates in the last election, and as
far as our union is concerned It has
not been mentioned anywhere that it
is an illegal party, and that our men,
bers have no right to belong to the
Workers Party.
On the contrary, we have on sew
eral occasions been assured by the
leaders of the International, including
Mr.. Sigman and Mr.. Feinberg, that
every member of the union has the
right to belong to any party that he
wants to belong to, the democratic,
the republican, socialist, anarchist,
the Workers Party, the single takers,
and even the Communists.
sigman, Himself, Says Sol
have here declaration by Mr..
Sigman in the Justice, Of June 20,
1925, where Mr. Sigman says that an
economic organization like ours must
take in as members, atheists, free
thinkers, Jews, gentiles, Communists,
democrats, republicans and single tax
ers. All members of all parties are
welcome in the union, provided that
they act in the union as union men.
1t must also be known to this COM
mittee that these members are not
all members of the Workers Party A
minority only of them belong. AS far
as Local is concerned, out of the
&c there are only three that are men,
bers of the Workers Party. They have
been accorded the same treamtent,
have been diagnosed in the same cate
CORY as Communists, altho these peo-
pie know perfectly we'll that statement
is absolutely false.
Shopping Committee Was Busy.
1t is also known, or should be
known to this committee, that the few
that are members of the Workers
Party among the members Of Local
2, at the time when they ran for
office, there was an objection commit
including Mr.. Feinberg and Mr.. PERL
stein, and tho nobody in my opinion
in accordance with the constitution
has a right to question anyone
whether he belongs to this party or
the other, because this is his private
business, nevertheless these gentle
men have taken it upon themselves
the responsibility to inquire into the
thots of people, as to what papers
they read, the papers they support,
and to what party they belong.
These people who are Communists
and have read and supported the Frei-
heit, did not deny it. That is quite
proper. And they have a ~perfect
right to do these things, SO long as
they do not violate a specific rule Of
the union Incorporated in the consti-
tuition of the International, and the
things they do uotside the union is
not the unions business.
So. these gentlemen who now bring
charges knew that these people read
the Freiheit. They know perfectly
we'll that the Communist Party, and
later the Workers Party, did not sud-
denly spring into existence after the
elections. Nevertheless they permit
and some of them were even request
ed by Mr.. Perlstein that they should
run for Office.
! Why have they suddenly come here
and wanted to prove that a member OF
the Workers Party must necessarily
act in contradiction to the constitu-
ton of the International? Had they
not known the constitution of the In
ternational ten weeks ago? Hadn't
they known the Workers Party and
the Communist program ten weeks
ago, or had the constitution of the
international been changed since
then? Has the constitution of the
Workers Party changed since then?
Has the Workers Party become since
then more leftist? o. sstl
The Times Poor Informer
Quite the contrary, everyone knows
that the Communists are becoming
ever more practical. SO why does the
| prosecution come here suddenly and