The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-30
TWO SOCIALIST
BROTHERS TRIM
The BOXMAKERS
Wreck Union by Graft
and Thuggery
BY JOSEPH MANLY.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

NEW YORK. (By Mail).-This is
the story of how a couple of socialist
adventures are engaged in bleeding
the workers Of the Paper Box Makers
Union, so that .thee material welfare
and comforts of these said careerists
shall be enhanced even tho II be az
the expense of the workers in the
shops, Louis Waldman, the lawyer,
in the furtherance Of his career Is
ambitious to move up on Riverside
Drive even tho'9 he has to call upon
his brother Morris and his gangsters
to assist him in getting into this res
tricted capitalistic section.
The Paper Box Makers Union has
been torn with dissensio nfor months.
This dissension is caused by the per.
sonal ambitions of Morris Waldman
and his legal adviser brother Louis.
Several years ago1 the Paper Box
Makers Union became affiliated with
the International Union Of Paper and
sulphite Workers. Several organizers
were appointed by the International
Union, amongst them Morris WalG.
man and Joseph d. Cannon, both of
them socialists and leaders Of the
socialist party. The Union increased
in membership and prospered for
while. All went well until Waldman
and Cannon began to quarrel Each
seeking the advantage over the other
and neither of them caring for the
welfare of the workers in the shops
While these. would-be leaders fight
and maneuver against each other, the
union has been neglected, the work
ers suffer, Waldman and his kind eat
regularly and the bosses reap the
advantage sw iH
Brothers Help Each other.
In the 1928 general strike the work.
ers carried the burden of the strug-
gle. What did Morris Waldman do
to help the workers in their struggle
against the bosses? Morris saw to it
that his brother Louis was hired as
the attorney for the, union at retain
ing fee of $1,000 paid out of the peck.
cts of the workers. What did this
idealistic socialist lawyer Louis Wald-
man do for his high retaining fee?
He helped to write an agreement that
his brother Morris later denounced
when he found the workers bitterly
opposed to it.
Assessment Levied.
In August 1s24,oa two day assess
ment which must have run up to a
total of $40, 1000 was levied against the |
opposition of the rank and file by the
bull doing methods of Morris Wald- !
man. No accounting, no audit no
financial statement covering this sum
of money has ever been rendered |
When the opposition on the Executive
Board demanded an accounting for
this money, Morris Waldman declar-
ed Martial Law" and suspended"
the Executive Board. In all the an
nails of high-handed action on the !
part of bureaucrats. in the American |
labor unions, this is the most unpar-
alleled czar-like action ever heard of
The same can be said Of the driving |
from Office of organizer Roberts, who
was forced to leave his office because
of the threats of two gangsters ac-
companied by organizer Weiner, Pres
ident Smith and Treasurer Hamper.
Roberts was given no trial, no charges
were preferred against him. He was
simply driven out by the gangsters
and henchmen of Waldman. If Nor
ris Waldman is allowed to continue
in Office, and practice such methods
in the conduct of the organization,
the Paper Box Makers Union win
have no support from the rank and
file and will become a mere tool of
the organized bosses. Perhaps this is
the real goal to which Morris Valid.