The daily worker., 1925-07-28
CHICAGO HEARS
STORY OF I:L.G.W.
STRUGGLE IN N. Y.
Successful Meet Held
hSpite of Opposition
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three locals which should be amalga.
mated according to the constitution.
Two hundred members were expelled
with Rubin.
Fight Glass Collaboration.
The left wing is opposed to the
DISQUALIFICATION policies of the Off
cial bureaucracy, declared thinner
man. They opposed the governors
commission and held that whatever
the cloakmakers got from the en-
ployers was secured by struggle and
not thru the beneyolence of politici-
ans; professors and capitalist law
yers.
The progressives are also opposed
to the use of gangsters in organizing
campaigns The members of the
union are capable of doing this organ
izing work, the speaker said. He gave
an instance where this mass form of
Organization campaign was tried and
proved successful despite the sabot-
age of the joint board.
One of the chief grievances Of the
left wing against the Sigman machine
is the system Of Misrepresentation
which prevails.
Each local, no matter whether it has
twenty members or twenty thousand
in entitled to five delegates to the
Joint Board. Thus locals 2, and %
tho they have sixty per cent of the
membership of the New York organ
ization have only Is delegates to the
Joint Board while forty per cent of
the membership have so delegates.
Reaetionaries Maintain Control.
Thus the reactionaries are able to
maintain control of the board. They
do this by subsidizing locals that do
not function any longer and unless
the paid managers of those locals
carry out the wishes of Feinberg and
company, they are jerked loose from
the payroll and thrown into exterior
darkness, if not beaten up by Fem
berg's hired gangsters.
Members of the l. L. G. w. U. in
New York, who had to leave Chicago
because they were blacklisted by
Perlstein sent a telegram to the mass
meeting iniithe Workers Lyceum. 1t
reads as follows:
Sisters and Brotherss PerIsteins
destructive activities are well known
to you. After running the dressmak-
ers at Chicago. he came to New York
to proceed with his policy of ruin
Too high price haveiwe paid for per-
mitting expulsion in our Chicago
ranks. The fight of Locals 2, and
22 of New York is our fight. Now is
the time to stand united with the
New York cloak and dressmakers in
our common struggle against the re-
dictionary officialdom. Stand by the
Joint Committee of Action. Help f.
nancially. Help to build. up a union
for the members. Now isrthe time to
rid ourselves of Perlstein, Sigman,
Feinberg, Rufer, Novack, and the rest.
Signed: Frieda Reicher, ]. Goldman,
Minnie Belavsky, Olga Garshin, Min
ME Garshin, Mary Rodwill."
Hyman Exposes Fake Attack.
Louis Hyman who spoke in Yiddish,
held the attention of his audience for
over an hour and a half. His speech
was literally sprinkled with humor-
Gus passages which kept the cloak
and dressmakers in happy mood.
The more serious aspects Of the
situation were not neglected. He
drove home his arguments with tell
ing force. He exposed the fake ex-
cuse given by Sigman and Perlstein
for the expulsion of the officials of the
three locals. They were not expel-
led because Moissaiye Olgin spoke at
May Day meeting, said Hyman. Oh
gin. hasNbeen speaking at their meet
ings fo% years. so had other Com
munist speakers Sigman was invited
TO speak at the same meeting, but he
Iregretfully declined having to be in
Chicago on that day. Sigman, Perl
stein and Fineberg made no protest at
the time.
But when the governors commits
sion made its award which gave moth
ing at all, to the cloakmakers then the
manufacturers put it up to Sigman
that he must force the members to
accept that award. Even Sigman him.
self at first admitted that the com
mission gave the workers nothing.
Hillquit, millionaire socialist attorney
for the !. l.. G. w. u. told the COM
mission that he had come to the con-
clusion that the body was no longer
of any use to the cloakmakers, but
when the manufacturers gave their
orders Sigman had to come across and
he knew that he could not deliver the
goods as long as the left wing had
leaders who could voice protest.
This was the direct cause OF the ex-
pulsion of the n elected officials of
Locals 2, 0 and 20.
Slgman Supporters Answered.
One supporter Of Sigman at the
fttas. N.I he