The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
GREEN UPHOLDS
union S C A B S
AGAINST A. C. v.
Fitzpatrick Supports
Class Solidarity
Continued from Page y

ing II hours a day. The S-hour day
has been abolished And the Interna-
tional Workers Relief aided these un-
employed and striking workers of the
Ruhr
''The Irish famine left thousands
starving. Jim Larkin, member of the
executive committee of the Interna-
tional Workers Relief, told me in Ire
land not long ago that that organ
ization was the only one which rallied
to the aid of the starving Irish. That
is the kind of an organization which
you are condemning, an organization
which is not composed entirely of
Communists, but of millions of work
ers all over the world"
Speaking of the fact that the United
Garment Workers are scabbing on the
striking members of the Amalgamat-
ed, Overgaard said: This is an exam
pie of organized scabbery, of one or
ganization scabbing on another"
Overgaard showed how amalgama'
ton in the trade unions is necessary
to prevent such scabbery. He also
urged the delegates to support the
American Negro Labor Congress as
a means of getting the Negroes and
whites organized together.
Delegate Shusster showed how the
attacks of the federation officials had
gone so far that they considered that
good comes only from themselves. He
declared that month after month the
federation meetings are taken up with
trivial matters and discussion of vital
subjects is waved aside. Both left
wing delegates received hearty ap-
plause.
Fltz Defends A. C. w. As Dual Union.
Green makes two errors in his let
ter" said Fitzpatrick. 1.-THE Anal
gamated clothing workers is not a
dual or. seceeding organization" Fitz-
patrick then went into the history of
the struggle to organize the clothing
industry and declared that the United
Garment workers Hasn't taken part
in the activities of this organization
for the past fifteen years and has done
nothing but prevent and hinder union
organization"
He told how the United Garment
Workers officials, headed by Tom
Rickert, president of the United Gar
ment Workers and member of the ex-
ecutive council of the A. F. of L., had
driven the real workers out of the A.
F. of L. and forced them to preserve
their organization az rne Amalga-
mated.
Green's Second "Error."
"The second error of Green" said
Fitzpatrick, sis in advising us to keep
out of wage disputes. We never tried
to enter this wage dispute, but re-
ferred it to Green for action. Green
was wasting his time and wasting his
paper in telling us THAI
Andrew Overgaard, left wing dele
gate from the machinists' union, made
Workers Relief. Under the report of
a stirring defense of the International
the executive board, it was brot out
that a letter had been sent to all
affiliated bodies, telling them that the
Irish Famine Relief did not repre-
sent the labor movement"
overgaard Speaks f-- international
Workers Relief.
"This is an attack on an interna-
tional organization that has aided the
workers all over the world" said
Overgaard. 81 passed thru Germany
recently, and in the Ruhr found
striking miners being aided by the In
ternational Workers Relief"
Ed Nockels made the remarkable
statement that he didn't blame Rick
ert for taking the stand against the
Amalgamated. IF / had been in
RICKETTS, place. | would have done ex
actly the same thing" Nockels said.
GAS soon as the Amalgamated is al
lowed to come in those fellows will
lose their jobs and would have done
the same thing. Self preservation is
the first law of nature"
Wise Lines up With Riekert.
Delegate Wise, the Compensate Com
munist batter, sided with Rickert and
the United Garment Workers scat
haters, and banded words with Mock
els, who told him, You're wise guy
but you don't know it all yet"
IF you want to be hand maiden for
an organization that never puts in an
appearance here to defend itself, &c
ahead" Fitzpatrick told Wise.
"What the United Garment Work
ers is doing is scabbery and traiter
ism and not unionism," Fitzpatrick
said in his speech, and no honest UNI
ion man can stand up for them"
Noekles Gives Remarkable Views.
You haven't done thing Tom
Rickert that | wouldn't have done
myself. You built up your organ
ization and l. wouldn't let anyone take
my Organization away from me-
Nockels seemed to be shielding
Rickert and at the same time de
nouncing the scabbery OF his organ
ization He admitted that they have
no organization except in the shirt