The daily worker., 1925-06-03
ADVOCATES A
POLICY IN The
LII. c. W. ELECTION
The Sigman Perlstein
Machine Cracked
nyA GARMENT WoRKER.

The election in the International
Ladies Garment Workers in Chicago
is about to take place and it will be
we'll If the rank and file look back
over the regime Of the present Off
cials. Study the present condition of
the organization, ask some pertinent
questions from those seeking office,
and cast their vote for the candidates
who stand for a militant program Of
action.
With the entrance of Perlstein into
the Chicago situation, coming as he
did, ostensibly for organizational pur-
poses, but in reality to remove from
office and expell from the union the
left wing who were then leading the
organization, even if that entailed
the complete demoralization Of the or
ganization.
Perlstein Goes, HaIperin Remains
Perlstein has gone and no one weeps
tears over his departure, altho they
express deep sympathy with New
York for being afflicted with this dis
rupter. However the Perlstein-Sigman
policy still remains. The officials who
took the place of the progressives
who were removed, are still in office.
The strong arm committee of ten,
altho now in conflict with the Sigman
machine are still factor and Vice
President Halperin is following in the
autocratic footsteps of Perlstein.
Under the guise of organizing the
unorganized Perlstein squandered like
a drunken sailor, over 100000 of the
organizations money, and when his
drive was over the organization had
lost over 1000 members, the union
was weakened by the expulsion of
many of it's livestl members, and in
flicted with group of incompetent
officials whose fighting proclivities
were limited to a struggle against the
progressives within the union.
A split has taken place in the Perl
stein-Sigman local machinery. Not
over the question of policy, but over
the question of loot The treasury has
been drained, Perlstein made short
work of that. The committee of ten
and their followers outside the union
who only work when they are well
paid, and whom everyone blames for
the shooting scrape in the Ashland
Auditorium, find themselves being
squeezed out, the fight is on and Hal
perrin is here to try and save the ma
chine from being completely wrecked.
Hoist With Their Own Petard.
Disfranchisement and expulsion is
still the main weapon of offense of
Sigman and company. Now they are
using it against each other. Some Of
those who were used by Perlstein to
terrorize the left wing now find them
selves in opposition to the machine
and have been promptly disfranchised.
1t is needless to say that they are
loud against this policy, and the two,
former machine, delegates to the joint
board from local have resigned as
a protest.
Now enters Halperin who in true
Perlstein manner took over local 5 at
its meeting held on May 20, appointed
two delegates to replace those who
resigned, on the grounds that if he
did not do 80, left wing delegates
would be elected, and that would be
in violation of the policy Of the gen.
eral administration.
outawed But Not Beaten.
The T. U. r. L. has been outlawed
in the l. L. G. w. 1t was also out.
lawed in the miners union, yet in
the last election in the U. M. w. Of A.
the candidates against the Lewis ma
chine polled $4,000 votes. They ran
for Office on the full program of the
7. U. E. L. and Lewis has not yet
complied with the constitution by tab.
ulating the votes by locals, and the
natural feeling among the miners is
that Lewis was defeated.
In the local Chicago I. L. G. w. U.
election, the most prominent left wing
ers have been expelled or disfran.
chised, they cannot run for once, but
there are many sympathizers. Last
year all those whom Perlstein thought
sympathized with the expelled were
arbitrarily removed from the ballot.
This year the rank and file must see
that no such czaristic methods are
allowed More than that, they must
demand from each candidate 10 state
their policy; what their program will
be II elected 10 offioe.
Into the FIahti
Trade issues, the conditions of work
ers in the industry, are OF the most
Importance. The settlement OF these,
or even the attempt to solvo these
problems, requires a different leader.
ship. leadership that will repudiate
the GLASS collaboration policy Of the
present group Of onlciais. oficials are
needed who will inject some ideaiism
into the union and who will carry on
the fight against the employers on
the basis OF the GLASS struggle.
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