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to work for and the attitude to be
adopted toward the Sorkin progress
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Kaufman in Demaeosie Speech.
Kaufman, who closed the debate on
the report after an entire days dis
oussion in which the left wing contin-
ued it's bombardment of the reaction
airy policies, delivered a demagogic
speech and ended with the exposure
of the alleged telegram.
Ben Gold Of the left wing opposed
the introduction of the substitute mo-
ton, we'll understanding the trick of
the Kaufman machine and lost by
only one vote, "a to So.
After the vote the machine rushed
for adjournment, refusing to recog-
nize Colds motion proposing an in
depreciation of Kaufman's motion and
declaring for cooperation with the
New York Joint Board, but the chair
man ruled Colds motion out arbit-
rarily
socialist" London on Platform.
Meyer London, who has been adj
wiser to the machine. and who sits
next to President Kaufman, was
challenged to leave his place and go
take his proper place in the audience,
but the Kaufman machine, which
brought up the Communists as the
controlling body" refused to yield to
the charge of socialist interference,
AS soon as the substitute proposal
carried, London changed his attitude
of impartial interest" and threat
ened with clenched fist to strike left
wing delegates. The Kaufman ma
chine felt it had carried off the vic
tory for the day and won the ground
it lost during Thursdays battle, whea
the lefts came out with flying colors
in the exposure of the rottenness and
reaction of the machine.
Saturdays session cut short this
victory. The progressives who voted
with the machine on the sham pro
position, and those who abstained,
realized their untenable position be-
fore the membership of New York
who would regard this as a betrayal
and they returned to give war to re
verse entirely the action of Friday
night.
The progressives introduced re-
solution declaring that the New York
board had cleaned out corruption
fought against suspensions and the
reign of terror sRd had built up the
union. The resolution instructed the
incoming executive board to cooper
ate fully with the New York board.
Kaufman's machine which, in its
dread of overthrowal, had built a
Chinese wall of constitutional regu-
lations making it impossible to get
any change without an overwhelming
majority or even unanimous approval
fell back upon every loophole to gel
out of the situation.
The lefts and progressives stood
their ground. The appeal was mo-
accepted despite parliamentary pro
cedure. Gold, who led the fight was
blocked by sheer high-handedness o.
the chairman who refused absolutely
to accept the resolution, but wished
only to force a vote on a motion tC
reconsider, which would require &
two-third majority.
The lefts and progressives argued
that the action Friday was illegal or
the ground that the substitute was in
troduced as a resolution after Thurs
days resolution could be introduced
and which would require unanimous
consent-which it did not receive be
cause Of the left wing delegate
Schneider's objections.
This was the ruling of Kaufman on
the new resolution which lefts ar
gued applies also to Friday nights
resolution and made it illegal
The chairman then tried to rush