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


were purchased for the Freiheit
Chorus, Perlstein Immediately said
that this is not legitimate expense
and II will not sign this bill" He
would never dare to say that the ex-
penses covering the rent for the hall,
the talent that was engaged for that
meeting, were not legitimate expenses,
and are not valid, that they are, in
violation of Section 10.
oloin Received No Money for Speech.
AS far as Mr.. Olgin is concerned, it
is known to the Committee that he
did not receive any money for his
speech, and it is also known at this
time to the Committee, that it was
never passed by the executive board,
and 1t was never reported whether
Olgln or anybody else, was invited
as speaker that the whole meeting
was arranged by a committee of three
in Local 2, and a committee of an
equal number of Local 8, and that
they have never reported to the exc
cutive, to their respective executives,
and they have had full power to ar
range this Meeting.
There is nowhere in the constitu-
ton anything that should direct them
or prohibit them or restrain them
from inviting speakers who are writ
ing in newspapers who happen to crit
icize the leaders of the International,
which is the whole contention of the
prosecution, that this was in viola
ton of the constitution. l want to
show you that speakers who have
very strongly criticized the leaders of
the International, are not only invited
to speak at meetings, but some of
them are at present the leaders and
are receiving high salaries from the
International.
As to Critics Of the Officials.
| will read to you some of the arti-
cles written some time ago by Mr..
Yanovsky, who is the editor of the Of
fetal organ of the International at the
present time, and this will also illus
trate to you that the Freiheit isn't the
only paper that criticizes the Interna-
tional leaders, and that it never hap
pened that when the Forward criti-
cized leaders, whether it was of the
local unions, whether it was leaders
of the joint board or leaders of the
International, or leaders of any other
union, or leaders of the American
Federation of Labor, that any of these
locals, joint boards, or the Interna-
tional or the American Federation of
Labor as a whole, should ever demand
Of the members to know who are read
ing these papers, who are supporting
these papers, or that they should re-
frain from reading these papers, or
that they should abstain from sup.
porting these papers, because there is
nowhere in the constitution of the In.
ternational, and these cannot be. and
they have no right to make such a
constitution, that should regulate the
thoughts of the members.
No Control Over What Members Read
We in America, at least believe in
free speech, and we have never given
the authority to our officers or even
to the authorities of the United States
government to abridge the rights OF
the citizens to read any newspaper
they desire, and to support any news.
paper that they feel like.
| will now read to you some of the
articles that were written by the pres
ent editor of the Justice at the time
when he did not have his Office with
the International. l am quoting now
from the Freie Arbeiter-Stimme Jan
10, 1914, of which paper Mr.. Yanovsky
was the editor at that time. Under
the heading of Bosses and the Inter
national Officers in Conspiracy
Against the Cloak Union" from which
heading itself you can see that the
article which will follow will not be
any compliment to the leaders of the
International.
Yanovsky's Attack of U. L. G. w.
Officers.
The article in part says as follows
1.-THE last joint statement in the
English press by the Union officers
and the bosses should dispel anybody's
doubt that the International officers 'ot
the Ladies Garment Workers Unior
united with the Bosses Association tc
betray the Cloakmakers. The Cloak
makers Union situation permits the
traitors who have gone into agree
ment with the bosses, they remain al
the head of the International. A
special convention of the Information
al should Immediately. be called. This
convention should put on trial the of
ficials who are obedient to and serv
ants of the bosses, and it should expe
those traitors from the labor move
ment forever"
The Same Leaders and the Same
Yanovsky.
This article was written by Mr.
Yanovsky, who is the editor of Jus
tice at the present. time, and the lead
ers whom he called traitors at tina
time were Mr.. Sigman, Mr.. Perlstein
Mr. Rosenberg, Mr. Halpern, and som,
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