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the counting of the ballots. The John
son administration seems to be deter
mined upon maintaining itself in pow
er regardless of the will of the mem
bership.
The locals should Immediately be-
gin to demand an emergency conven-
ton in 1925 and the recall of the IL
legally elected officers. Militant and
progressive elements all over the
country should get together immedi-
ately and devise ways and means to
make it possible to have an honest
election in the l. A. of NJ.
Only with a unified, national pro-
gram on the basis OF every day needs
Of tine machinists in this country will
it be possible to smash the present
bureaucracy.
Get Into the Fight.
Members of the l. A. Of NJ unite
with the militants in the call for an
emergency convention, for the recall
of the Illegally elected officers, for a
national conference OF militants and
progressives. for the amalgamation of
all metal trade unions. for reinstate-
ment OF expelled members, for a ma
tional labor party based on trade
unions and workers organizations.
and for the International trade union
unity.
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LIVINGSTON LOCAL OF
U. M. W. lOF A. DEMANDS
CONVENTION IN 1926

LIVINGSTON, H., July Pit is
learned that the United Mine Work.
ers Local No. 1855 at this city re-
Gently passed the following resoIu-
tlon:
I'VE the members Of Miners Lo-
cal 1855 v. N. w. of A. at Living
stop, H., go on record at our regu-
lar miners meeting June 18th, with
a membership Of $50 miners, con-
demning the action Of the lnterna-
tionaI executive board Of the v. NJ.
w. of A. of postponing the next
national biennial miners convention
to 1927 instead Of 1926, as a die
tatoriaI act Of the international Of
fieers and unconstitutional"
(Siened)
Walter Koch, President,
Frank PauIleha, Rec. Seey.
Robert Windish, Jr., Fin. Secy,
Rudolf Pauieha, Treas.
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Where Does SIQman>S POOrOm cad IOI

that from his pains he gets satisfac-
ton
THE second way in which they seek
4 to attack the cloakmakers is thru
the bundle. They know that the
bundle cloaks is very dear to the
cloakmaker They know that he is
hungry and tired of the long slack
season, and yearns for the bundles.
Therefore, they assume an attitude
toward the "Dubb" of a cloakmaker
as If he were child yearning for
sweets; they paint before his eyes
the shadow of bundle, seeking to
scare him by saying Remember, you
will soon have bundle "If you
will be good and obedient," they say,
land do what Sigman or Feinberg
tells you, you will get a bundle" "If
not you will be out of luck. The
bundles will disappear, and others
cleverer than you will catch them"
THESE means were used against
4 the cloakmakers at the time when
they carried on struggle against
the machine when, few years back,
II expelled the Communist union.
reakers"-Professo Isaac Hour
witch, and Bisno. True, Hourwich
and Bisno were not Communists but
"Perlstein, the union" were then
there, and Hourwich with Bisno did
not agree with the policy OF Perl
stein, the union" and they were there
fore disturbers and liable to be sus-
pended.
And so they yelled with great head
lines in the yellow Forward They
are cutting bundles in the shops"
With this yell they sought to scare
the cloakmakers. The shadow OF the
bundle was their greatest weapon.
Similarly they did in 1922. The
were greatly dissastis.
fed with the victory" OF the renew.
ed agreement and they we're threat.
ened II thsy vote against the agree
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ment 1t means a strike, and they will
lose the bundles.
A ND similarly they are doing in the
present struggle. The cloakmak.
err, they yell, does not think of the
present struggle which is going on
in the union, he does not even speak
about It.; he only thinks about the
work in the shop, about the bundle.
And therefore they scream with
great headlines in the yellow For.
ward, They are already cutting work
in the shops" etc.
MORRIS SIGMAN, the union boss,
A'l that teamster with the strong
hand, who has broken and ruined in
the union this which someone else
built, this Sigman who only retains
the rags of the gambler who has lost
everything - his only hope is also
built on the aforementioned two
means. And therefore, he continues
to humble "Sulkeses. scab-agents"
and speaks with the tone of one who
is sure Of everybody. He desires the
members Of the union to believe they
are all with him, they are all good
union people and stick to "Sigman.
the union" Only a few "Sulkeses, :"
Communists, are the breakers. They
want to break the union. He also
Everything is normal In
the joint board" There will soon be
work in the shops" The bundles are
the main thing. not only for the
cloakmaker, but for Sigman and Fein.
berg. The cloak makers are inter.
ested in the bundles because they
need to make living. sigman and
Feinberg are interested even II only
In the shadows OF bundles with
which to scare the cloakmakers.
They also need to make living from
them. H' KY
RUT how far can the sigman ma.
- chine lean on such methods?
Thoss who come AmsnG- shs -oasak
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CALL |. A. M. TO
BUCK UP and DO
BATTLE AT ONCE
Crooked Election Deal
Must Be Corrected
BY Rank and Filler.

Not only in the Miners Union and
in the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union are the militants and
progressives in life and death strug-
gle against the officialdom which in
tends to hold power by all means
against the wishes of the rank and
file.
The ofiicliadom of the International
Association of Machinists under the
leadership Of Johnston and Dawson
have recently announced to the world
that they have again succeeded them
selves in office. This is probably one
of the most brazen election steals in
the trade union movement in this
country and puts the offcialdom of
the machinists together with the rest
of the labor bureaucrats in the Am
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ByP. Yuditch

the bluff which lies IN this scare.
/ TN addition, we must not forget the
L following: II certain cloakmakers
can be scared with the hole Of the
doughnut, the same is not the case
with the dressmakers. Both above
mentioned methods used by the ma
chine have long since lost their eff,
fectiveness on the dressmakers. You
cannot scare them any more with
bundles. They are long ago acquant-
ed with the fakes Of the yellow Sig
manism, much more than the cloak
makers. And the dressmakers will
play in the present revolt a very
prominent role. They cannot be
pushed aside. Against the cloak.
makers Of Local and 9, and in add.
ton to the dressmakers, Sigman's
pogrom will surely be a failure. It
will be a failure, we mean, in the
sense of perpetuating Sigman's rule
but such pogrom cannot be a fail
ure so far az concerns the general
harm which It does.
WILL the cloak and dressmakers be
w victorious In this struggle? The
foregoing explanations show the ans
wer to the last question. II is clear
that the failure OF the Sigman ma
chine, the failure Of the pogrom-lead-
ers. is victory for those who are
robbed and attacked. Sigman may
very possibly obtain not even a tenn
porary victory II the present spirit
of revolt which rules among the cloak
and dressmakers refuses to be choked
by the threats and bluffs OF the Sig
man family. II the workers OF the
shops will not permit themselves TO
be frightened with the bundles and
will not lose for one moment their
consciousness. then the Sigman ma
chine will be forced TO remove them
selves very soon from the union. This
gang has no place in the Information.
al. They themselves have underinln,
ed their 9ea position, $1,000
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and dressmakers, those who are ac-
Quainted with the spirit that rules
among the workers, they know that
the first method is played out long
since. You cannot take the masses
for granted. Among the widest
masses of the cloak and dressmak-
ers, they laugh in their sleeves when
such union-breakers as Sigman and
Feinberg speak OF "SElkeses." The
cloak and dressmakers know for a
long time the deeds of the Feinbergs
and Perlsteins. They also know the
left wing and they know who are the
disturbers and betrayers.
PUT very differently it is with the
- second method. 1t must be ad.
mitted that generally even the
shadow OF bundle has a great at.
traction for most cloakmakers, that
regardless of the consciousness
which has penetrated deeply in the
ranks of the clpakmakers, the yearn.
ing for the bundle is still such a fac.
tor that II often demoralizes the con.
sciousness Of the workers.
This is because the cloakmaker is
tired and hungry, especially in the
last few years, when the trade has
been brought to such terrible chaos,
when the competition is so great,
when large part of the garments
are made in scab shops, when the co.
operation shop has so developed, and
when the most of the union men work
only a few weeks a year.
In such time and under such
conditions IL is very natural that the
cloakmaker should often be scared
perhaps he will lose the possibility
to make a few bundles.
MORRIS sIGMAN G Co. cannot
AA rely any more on this fear OF the
bundle. Sigman machine has in the
time OF its rule led the cloakmak ers
70 such a condttion OF dsspatr. theyI
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as means of securing STEADY
work" In Boston many factories are
shut down, and the workers have been
informed that when work is resumed
$25 week will be the standard wage.
In Chelsea the foremen set the list
of prices and those workers who re-
fuse to accept them are fired.
In each of these places the Boot and
Shoe Workers Union oficialdom is
the best ally of the bosses in wage
cutting. Not only do they bind and
gag the workers who protest by put
ting the local into the hands of a
commission, but they refuse to take
any action whatever against the wage
slashing Of the bosses.
B. and /. Agrees.
In Lynn the bosses have succeeded
in forcing the workers into the Boot
and Shoe by refusing to employ them
unless they join this union. The
workers were without leadership will
ing to lead them with definite policy
in this situation, and bombarded as
they were by the Boot and Shoe prop
uganda in the capitalist press, they are
now in the Boot and Shoe.
Already tine BOOT ana nhue on1ciai-
dom has signed contracts with the
bosses which agree to wage cuts and
a graded price list which means that
the cheaper the shoe manufactured
the lower the wages will be.
The policy of the T. U. e. L. for
the shoe industry was accepted. This
policy is practical and leads to the
amalgamation of the shoe unions into
one industrial union with mil
liant program of struggle against the
bosses based upon the class struggle.
1t advocates a militant campaign
against the class collaboration polio
les Of the Boot aud Shoe officialdom
and against the despotic rule of the
oficialdom against the rank and file.
In each shoe center this campaign
against wage cuts will be waged by
means of leaflets and mass meetings
to rally the workers to stem the tide
of wage reductions which is going on.
The organization of militant left
wing groups to supply leadership for
the workers in this struggle will be
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Scotia. against wage cuts, union
wrecking and loss OF working condi-
tions, the same thing at the Crows
Nest Pass in Alberta, the outrages on
miners in West Virginia, in Oklahoma
and thruout the country, show the in
ternational aspect of the situation.
A strike is threatening in the Bril-
fish coal industry, and the miners OF
America will again be called upon to
scab on their British brothers, to sup
ply the British coal market, and help
the English operators defeat the strik-
ing miners of Britain.
Not A Pound Of Coal 10 Defeat y
Our 5rothersI Sex
Miners and transport workers OF
America, the Progressive Miners
committee calls upon you 70 be on
guard and TO refuse 10 scab on your
brothers across the seas We pledge
ourselves to aid in every way our
brothers across the seas, Their ssuf-
fering is our suffering, their Eight is
our fight their victory or defeat ia
likewise ours. ~ 2s''sz ~.
AS capitalism and It's interests ars
international, so is labor and its in
terest. A militant observation-disclosures
ization OF the workers Of the world,
based on the class struggle. for inter-
national unity must be supported by
the workers of America. .yas
The Progressive Miners committee
congratulates the British Trade Union
committee for their unbiased report
on the Russian situation, and empha-
tically endorses its conclusions.
Brother miners of Britain we greet
you and pledge our support for inter
national unity in every possible way
at our commando
Alex Reid, sec'y.
1920 S. Chicago Ave-, Chicago, m.
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(The Outlook In the Present strue-
gle in the internationally

(The Outlook In the Present strug-
gle in the internationally
THERE are two means by which it
sought to attack the cloakmakers.
From the bedtime stories" of the
Forward both originate. They were
tried out many times by this yellow
gang.
One means is to take Henry Dubb
for granted. This yenow gang looks
down on everything and everybody.
Their own idiocy they consider the
greatest cleverness. And the wide
general public is considered by them
as a bunch of fools, Dubbs who have
not the least bit of sense" They
can talk into them whatever they
want They believe that they can
talk a woman into believing she is
pregnant, and whatever the Dubbs
need they do not need. and what they
want they do not want.
A ND therefore they yell, for in.
= stance, that among the cloak.
makers everything is at present nor
NAL, that their union offices are func.
tioning in the best of order, that all
members are greatly satisfied, and
they congratulate the union for
throwing out the Communists.
Even those who are being attacked
with the strong-arm gangs in the
streets and union Offices, even those
who are being insulted by the ma.
clfine-sluggers and other appointed
scoundrels, all are enthused with 10y.
That Is how things seem in the bed.
time stories OF the Forward. They
DO this. thinking to talk into the
masses that they are really satisfied,
with the belief that just as one can
make himself believe that he Is sick
so he can make believe that his
wounds ire not wounds at all, and
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fighting the CLOSED shop" Tread
"unions") ought to be worth $40 of
anyone's money. And one and all are
to send that much for years dues.
Pretending to be Popular Move.
Not of course, that the American
Plan Association needs the money.
While they pretend that the poor and
the humble and downtrodden have
reason to rally to the holy of union
crushing and ask for the same P. H.
and D. T. to fork over $40 for the
privilege, this is just a blind to cover
up the conspiracy of the big boys in
the Ohio Manufacturers Association
to fight the unions under the cover
("under cover" think of that!) Of a
great popular mass movement, with
acres of those who are oppressed by
the unions" swarming about the office
of the American Plan armed with ten
dollar bills.
In fact, the big boys, and just a
few of them, are secretly in conspir-
acy and are forking over huge sums
to finance the page ads in the Times
and the little advertisement in the
help wanted" columns of the Plain
Dealer calling for "ablebodied men
with clubs" And they likewise are
paying the bills for both the men and
the clubs. Such is the open shop"
American Plan.
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AMERICAN"
PLAN SHOWS
CLOvEN HOOP
DeprecGtes Violence;
But Buys Clubs

CLEVELAND, July 7.-The promot-
ers of the ''ysilow dog" contract in
Ohio, the American Plan Association,
are jumping into the arena of strue-
gle with all four beastly feet. These
yellow doegers have felt quite spry,
recently, what with several court de-
cisions against the trade unions to
their credit.
Will the trade unions in Cleveland
fight back? viii they allow this open
shop association to make the yellow
dog contract effective In CIeveIand7
viii labor permit an organization Of
employers to force employees to sign
a contract not to join a labor union
as a condition Of employment?
"slgns of the Times"
Down town, in the heart OF the
city, on Superior avenue, upon three
immense plate glass windows we read
a sign of the times. There in foot
high letters the name of the American
Plan Association can be read together
with the announcement that help is
furnished free by it and employment
given to those who call.
Then we turn to the help wanted
page of today's Plain Dealer and find
this little insert:
"Poliee Wanted"
400 able bodied men for special
police work, equipped with uniforms
and clubs. Box 1909, Plain Deal
err"
Then we turn the pages of the
Cleveland Times and happen upon
nearly full page advertisement
headed: Judges and Juries Condemn
Closed Shop Lawlessness. Court
Cases Bring Judgments, Fines and
Sweeping Injunction. American Plan
Association helps Both Union and
Non-Un Workers"
What About "Union" Shop.
The advertisement, and a very ex-
pensive thing it is to run SO continu-
ously, starts out by saying the closed
shop is "Un-American" whatever
that means. 1t accuses the closed
shop" Git does not use the words
union shop'O of various violences,
all oblivious Of the fact that their
own methods of using "ablebodied
men equipped with clubs" is not ex-
actly a.form of procedure to be class
fded as pacifist or non-resistant.
Under Cover"
1t further states that the supposedly
pernicious CLOSED shop" also works
under cover whenever it can" Again
quite oblivious OF the fact that the
advertisement for the "ablebodied
men with clubs" they inserted in the
Plain Dealer as noted above, is a
blind" advertisement, giving an "un-
der cover" address. They even fail
to explain that the employers of this
country, !, by use of Industrial spies
against the workers, are responsible
for the very term under cover man"
from which they seem now to shrink.
After reciting numerous horrible de-
tails where the capitalist courts have
in all due solemnity declared that
unions and union men have actually
violated capitalist law, the point of
the big advertisement is brought out
in heart rending plea for money.
They set forth there many arguments
to prove that the great pleasure of
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Rail Unions Win
New Trial in Case
of Scab's Suit

DENVER, Colo, July THE Broth.
erhood of Railroad Trainmen and
Order of Railway Conductors won a
victory today when the Colorado state
supreme court handed down a deci-
sion reversing lower courts in which
r. F. Jones, former conductor, on
the Denver & Interurban Railroad
was awarded $4,000 damages against
the Brotherhoods.
In his suit Jones claimed the Broth
erhoods had prevented him from Sc
curing a livelihood because of his
failure to join in a strike several
years ago.
The high court ordered a new trial.
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To American Coal Miners and
Transport Workers.


Transport Workers.
The miners of Great Britain are
facing situation at the present
which is similar in many respects to
the situation in the United States and
Canada.
Unemployment among the miners,
lasting many weary months, has re-
duced them to the verge of starvation
and a campaign of wage cutting union
breaking and destruction OF working
conditions is on thruout the British
fields.
Intending Greed
Northumberland mine owners have
forced the miners down to starvation
wages and still attempt further reduc-
tions from standard of living that
is a disgrace to civilization.
The week ending June 13 showed
several brothers wage for the four
week to range from $500 to $3.50 for
the week.
A reduction of 20 per cent was made
in Longwell cutters yard prices, and
reduction of from one to eleven
cents in cutting rates.
Unbearable Conditions
The cost of living in Britain is as
high as in America. so the situation
can be readily understood by the
miners in America who are experience
ing similar attacks.
The situation is international in
every respect, the capitalists are or
ganized internationally and the miners
must be not only organized interna-
tionally but must protect themselves
in action against the onslaught of the
coal barons, and prepare to take over
the mines In the interest of the
workers.
The strike OF the miners in Nova
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Miners Federation of Britain threatened
serious fight The employers taking the offensive aided
by the unemployment caused by Dawes Plan eparaon coal
dspacng British coal in the south European market They
attacking both great may
be called by the end July The Progressive
of the United Mine Workers of America today
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ADOPT FIGHTING PROGRAM OF
T.U. E. L. AGAINST WAGE CUTS
IN SHOE AND LEATHER TRADE
sy TOM RELL

BOSTON, July
League against the shoe heartily
committee
From each the cutting campaign the
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erican labor movement ON the same
basis. 4tg
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ng statement on the situation:
Evening star., 1925-08-09

Hamilton Cain slammed the door on
them.
"Well. I'll be hanged" said Mr..
Cain. "If that wasn't magnificent in
side base ball, l haven't been any
where, and l haven't seen anything :"
But from that moment Betty was
no longer a member of the MaStodons.
She became eventually Mrs. Catfish
Burkett. the wife of an umpire. and
as such, the consort of a natural
enemy of ball players. 1t was her
social ruin; but if she ever realized
this none of the Mastodons or their
camp followers ever heard about it
As the nursery song says, "The
lady bug flew away home"
fCODyri~bt 1oosA
Evening star., 1925-08-09

saw the Mastodons through the crisis.
Burkett looked at her in utter be
wilderment. The turmoil had not ex-
cited him. The snarling of the wolf
pack did not seem to have quickened
his pulse a beat. But now he looked
puzzled.
why. you're late" said Base Ball
Betty. Wen have to take taxi"
From the astonishment of Burkett
ii was plain that she never had even
talked to the Catfish before.
II" he stammered
Hurry, dear" she said sweetly
Wen be late for dinner"
The crowd made way. The dazed
umpire found himself in a cab
Evening star., 1925-08-09

ried through their showers had mobi-
liZed-and all of them were carrying
bats.
"A game guy" said Henessey.
"Well stand by him
Jimmy Burkett came out of the
dressing room. He was pale, but
composed, despite the fact that a lit
tie blood was trickling down his
cheek. What are all the bats for?"
he demanded. Are you guys going
to make some more squawks about
my decisions? If you used those bats
for what they're made for, we
wouldn't have any troubles
I'VE thought you might need some
help" stammered Henessey.
Not q bit" snapped Burkett.
Evening star., 1925-08-09

He walked toward the players gate
little dizzy, but with his head high,
while that mob growled savagely.
once out on the sidewalk they start
ed to close in on him.
XIII him. the thief they scream
ed. His path was blocked. In another
second he would be struck down and
trampled under foot. A brick hurtled
by, but the aim was wild. and 1t
struck one of Burkett's prosecutors
on the chest.
Burkett took one step forward. As
he did, slim, well-tailored figure
glided to his side. A girl put her
hand lightly on his arm. 1t was Base
Ban Betty. as unruffled as when she
Evening star., 1925-08-09

7 F you reside out near Rock Creek
Park in the latitude of the great
National Zoo, you do not require
L the services of a trusty alarm
plnalr n H.
Evening star., 1925-08-09

. ASE BALL BETTY Joined the
- Mastodons quite informally
early in the season of the
. hectic pennant drive which