The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-03
Ill. C. W. Left Wing in Call to Rank and File
lContinued from page u

Continued from page II
senting the workers entered into a
peace agreement, despite the fact
that some of the most vital demands,
like full amnesty and proportional rep
resentation were not granted by the
bureaucracy.
Political Discrimination Practioed.
NOW, it appears however, that not
only is the peace agreement not lived
up to, but preparations are being
made by the bureaucracy to recapture
their good jobs and keep on to those
they have, even if they have to split
the union.
"The membership, according to the
peace agreement, had the right to
elect completely new staff of ofici-
ais. But having a majority of votes
in the old unrepresentative Joint
Board, opposition candidates of Locals
10, SO, As were not allowed on the
ballot with the exception of four.
This is one point jim the violation of
the agreement which made it impos-
sible for the membership to have a
full choice as ito their officials. Anton
my, who claims to be a progressive
and pretended, to be fighting Ninfo,
one Of the blacklist reactionaries
in the international, combined with
Ninfo to vote down the opposition can
1idates, thus demonstrating before the
,ntire world that he is nothing but
contemplate faker siDubinsky, who
vas a party to the agreement and de-
clared in his local. that he accepts the
whole peace agreement, after partici-
)ating in the examination committee
and objecting to the most capable can
1idates of the opposition. on political
grounds, withdrew the candidate of
his local local 1O), and threatens
to withdraw from the Joint Board.
Bar Opposition Candidate.
"The elections to the convention
were supposed to be safeguarded ac-
cording to the peace agreement, by
the opposition being allowed to watch
the balloting and as per constitution
of the international, be present at the
counting of the votes. In Local 10
these rights were fatty refused to the
opposition candidates and Sigman did
not do anything beyond promising to
afford them these rights. In Local
4S (Ninfo) the election objection COM
mittee was appointed by the execu-
tive board instead of being elected by
the membership and the opposition
candidates for delegates to the con-
vention were kept off the ballot.
Not only were none ofnthe sus-
pended or expelled members, with the
Exception Of Locals 2. 81 and %, not ]
reinstated, but political discrimina-
ion and persecution was kept up,
specially out of town. dns iPhiladel-
'hia, where the expulsion policy has
eft but wreck of the entire organ
cation, a member was Suspended and
dned, barred from union meetings and
union shops for two years for having
distributed leafiet criticiziHg the bu-
reaucracy. erG1rs son
Fixing Coming Convention.
Keeping opponents off the ballot, !
fixing elections, is the only way they
can be the chosen representatives of
the workers. The big plum they are
after now, is to fix the coming Phila-
delphia convention and not having the |
of 80 per cent of the mem
bership and all their tricks in the
big cities not giving them even one
third of the convention, they have
been busy organizing small paper To-
calls to get delegates Sigman, who
parades as an amalgamationist, has
done more for this sham than even his
predecessors. The only amalgamat-