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

whereas 1t would be great dtmculty
for them to get such sympathy should
they charge us with not raising dues,
with not levying taxes.
Local 3 has been brought on charges
some months ago for refusing to in
crease dues quickly enough. We had
a meeting before committee of the
general executive board, Of which vice
president Perlstein was the chairman.
After grilling us for several hours,
trying to make us believe that we are
the greatest criminals, that we have
violated the constitution of the Inter
national, the orders of the Interna-
tional and the joint board, we have
not heard from them nor of their deci-
SION that is because they would not
dare to bring out the real charges. So
they have made a fake, and they
try to make the world believe that the
reason they are fighting us is because
they are conservatives and we are
ultra-revolutionists.
Only minority Of us are members
of the Workers Party. The Workers
Party is a legal party. When the Of
fcials want to make you believe that
members of the w. P. cannot hold
office in the union, they know that
they are not telling the truth. They
themselves knew the program Of the
Workers Party. They knew that these
members were also members of the
Workers Party. They allowed them
to go on the ballot in the local cleo
tions. Nothing has been changed in
the last few weeks since these people
have been elected by the greatest ma
jority in the history of our union, and
with the permission Of the officials,
knowing that some of these members
are members of the Workers Party
and that they cannot prove that they
did anything except calling the May
Day meeting, and this is not crime
against the union.
Trial Committee not open-Minded
We have during the course of this
trial. stated that we did not believe
that this committee is open-minded
/
we do not believe that its members
are free to give a verdict in accord
ance with their belief. Thru the fact
that they have been selected by those
who brought the charges they viii do
and act the way they will be instruc-
ted from them. They cannot do other
wise. They have never before done
otherwise.
We have therefore requested from
the beginning, that since you have
branded us as Communists, union
breakers, and what-not, we have chal-
lenged you that you should also come
out before the whole world where you
have published your statements, and
show what you have against us, and
not conduct the trial in star-chamber
proceedings where the chairman of
this committee should be able to tell
me that "can talk to the wall" that
he will do the way he pleases' no
matter whether his conduct is in ac-
cordance with accepted rules or with
the constitution of the International.
I If you will look over the record you
will see the rulings of this chairman
in the entire trial, and you will readily
/ see that from the very start the OBJ
/ ject of this chairman was not to find
out the truth, that his conduct and his
questions show that his was not the
work of an impartial judge who is
ready to listen to both sides and then
give out verdict.
That is shown from the very begin
ming, his Partially, that he is inter
ested in one side, and that he wanted
to bring out answers from the witness
1 es that will incriminate them, ques-
tions that were absolutely irrelevant,
that had nothing to do with the case.
| did not object to these questions be-
cause l know that these members on
trial here are so much in the right,
that you have absolutely nothing
against them. The fake charge of call
ing the May Day meeting is, on the
face of it, so absurd and ridiculous
that it is condemned not only by our
membership but by every liberal and
rogressive-thinking man in the entire
country. and in every country thruout
| the world.