The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-06

VINO urged the Qenance OF the lnJunc-
ton, who really held the strike line
as long as it lasted p Comrades like
Dora Lipshutz. The Young Workers
League and party members every
morning strengthened the picket line
The entire district executive commit
tee were on the picket line except
Bob Minor, "the man of action" Not
single leading member of the mi
nority spent two minutes on the pick
ct line.
The Minority United Fronts.
Now let me deal briefly with some
of the united fronts set up by the
minority. First, let me take the fam
GUS united front with Fitzpatrick In
all of my experience in the Chicago
Federation of Labor we never had a
united front with Fitzpatrick on any
question, until the united front set
up by the Pepper-Lovestone-Ru
berg group just prior to the July Bird
and 4th farmer-labor party confer
ence When this was set up, we who
knew Fitzpatrick, thru the district
committee wrote to the G. E. G. then
in control, the present minority, to be
very careful in dealing with and not
to place much trust in the Fitzpatrick
Nockles-Brown group. We were told
to mind our own business Who made
up this Fitzpatrick united front COM
mittee? Pepper, Lovestone and Ru-
] thenberg. Our united front in Chi
cago was with the rank and file and
the result of that united front was
that we brought to the July Srd con-
vention So delegates from Chicago
alone.
The HiIIman United Front.
Another united front set up by the
minority when they controlled the
c. E. c. was the PepperMinor-Hill-
man united front, united front that
almost ruined, and did completely
demoralize for long time, our left
wing group in the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers. We, as disciplined
Communists very naturally carried
out our instructions. We carried out
the instruction so we'll, that our party
members in the groups, up until
the open discussion started, thot that
it was our policy and not Peppers.
To us who opposed this colIabora-
ton with HiIIman, Pepper stated,
Between the left wing and Hill
man, ] will take Hillman for the
next ten years, and maybe for two
years more" and this, comrades,
all because he thought he could use
HiIlman to form a farmer-iabor
party. In the elections in the Anal
uamated that year Hilman suggest
ed that we should elect as left
winger one of his henchmen and
| Comrade Minor, the actionist, &C
tuaIIy argued in favor of it. why"
he said, 1--WE can at least claim
him as our man."
In the last convention of the A.
c. w. u, Hillman invited Minor to
speak, while the c. E. c. selected
Comrade Browder to organize the
left wing. While Browder was or
ganizing the left wing in the con-
vention to fight HilIman, Minor as
every delegate knows, was one of
the cheer leaders for Hilman. Even
in Moscow, at the time when the
Russian American Industrial Cor
poration was being formed, Hill
man objected to our party picking
its quota of directors, he wanted
them first submitted to him for APP
prevail. He said, (and was there)
~ have no objections to men like
Bob Minor"
And in the election that has just
taken place in the A. G. W., where
the policy of collaboration with Hill
man was discarded, and the elections
based upon clear and definite left
wing program, some of the party
members deserted the party princi-
pies and signed a statement in Lee
WINS Office just on the eve Of cleo
ton repudiating the left wing pro-
gram. This naturally demoralized
to quite an extent the left wing. On
top of this our comrades had to bat
tie with Levin's sluggers at the poll
ing places, some of them being slug
ged. What did Bob Minor do under
these circumstances? He introduced
a motion in the district executive
committee meeting asking the c. E.
c. to restate the party policies In the
A. c. w.
Here, for the first time, since the
forming of the Experimentation
united front, our party policy in the
Amalgamated was very clearly under
stood. SO clear in fact, that the
weak members of our party were
afraid to endorse it, and actually
repudiated it rather than enter the
fight against the HiIlman-Levin ma
chine. The only Interpretation that
can be put on Minors motion, was
that he preferred the old Hillman al
lance to a fighting program Of ac-
ton.
The United Front in the Printers
Union.
Take another one of our minority