The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-19
.PROGRESSIVES
OF FURRIERS
SHOW WEAKNESS
Kaufman Trick Wins on
G. E. B. Report
lspeolaI to The oalIy worksrl

BOSTON, Nov. 17.-In defense Of
use Of nIunetlons by the Furriers'
Union in it's battles with the employ
ers, President Morris Kaufman, in
the battle over accepting the report
of the general executive board, en-
ployed every sophistry Of class col
laboration and every argument Of the
opportunst in his attempt to escape
criticism for the general executive
boards use of the injunction In the
Boston struggle against the Mill
burn firm.
Z In his talk Kaufman, shedding large
crocodile tears, regretted, that of
course, he would like to see more
revolutionary changes, but, declared
this bureaucrat, Revolutions some
times do not show results in less than
| a generation, how can the delegates
expect more from the officers in
period Of one year."
VuIgarizes Marx.
Kaufman's lieutenants came to his
rescue An the convention in an at
tempt to jam the majority report Of
the general executive board thru the
convention. Stetsky, one Of the vice
presidents, even went to Karl Marx
| to justify the use of injunctions
against employers and declared with
ridiculous smugness that man
makes history, not out of whole
cloth, but out of conditions at hand"
and concluded that the union must
accept conditions as they are and
recognize that we are living under
| capitalism and that we must act as
capitalists act.
The lefts, Benjamin Gold and
Schneider, introduced a minority re-
port and attacked the general execu-
tive boards report showing the con-
| vention that the union had commit
ted itself to recognizing the injunc-
tion since it employed the injunction
against the Millman firm and that
the union had won doubtful victory
| as result.
Left Wing Battles.
The minority report also attacked
! TIC ddCh VI WIN Ga0 Tic
miserable agreement made in South
Norwalk. where the members were
bound to a five-year agreement with
conditions which agreed to no chair
I rnanship and longer hours than in
other centers.
| The minority report showed the ut
ter incompetency of the Kaufman ma
chine for leadership in the union.
After a campaign of flimflamming
the delegates by the Kaufman ma
chine, the majority report was adopt
ed with 3S delegates voting for the
report. Thirty-fve delegates refrain
ed from voting for the report, think
ing by this means to express them
selves in favor of the minority re-
port
Why Progressives Fell Down.
Many of the delegates who ideolo-
gically and additionally cling to the
Kaufman machine, but because Of the
pressure of their rank and file are
forced to take a progressive stand,
were disarmed by the demogogy of
the Kaufman machine and supported
the majority report. These so-called
progressives lack the left wing ide-
ology and have not decided in their
own minds to break completely with
the general executive board political
ly and ideologically.
The Kaufman machine which the
latter part Of last week was meek
and humble when the question Of the
New York joint board came up, fill
ing the air with peace talk, have start
ed their war on the left progress
sive bloc when they thought they
stood on firmer ground and stood a
chance Of flimflamming the delegates.
This tactic was used to the extreme
by the machine. The lamb turned
wolf. The fox remained foxy. The
Kaufman policy was clear-peace on
the bad case of the New York board
fill the air with peace talk. Then
beat the opposition on the work con-
Quoted and thus maintain the ma
chimes prestige. This the machine
accomplished, due to the weakness of
the progressives.