The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24

Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Expose Alliance With Bosses Tools.
The expose Of the alliance Of Fitz-
patrick and Nockels with the union
smashing Daily Forward followed the
reading of letter sent by these two
federation officials to the Chicago
joint board Of the International La
dies Garment Workers Union in an
attempt to terrorize the membership
Of the garment workers union into
supporting the reactionary candidates
in the election of three business
agents of the Chicago joint board.
The letter itself sounded as tho It
had been written by one of the most
rabid open shoppers in the citizens
committee.
These two heads of the federation
took it upon themselves, after hearing
pleas made by supporters of the right
wing policy in the International La
dies Garment Workers Union, to adj
dress a letter to the joint board tell
ing them in yelled phraseology that a
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Zeff, could not go on the ballot.
The attempt on the part of the reac-
tionaries to bar this left-winger failed,
pointed out Davidson, one of the dele
gates from the ladies' garment work
ers. He also made it known that Zeff
was elected by a large majority.
Two charges are made against zeff
by Fitzpatrick and Nockels, who to-
day are supporting Frank l., Smith
for the United States senate on the
understanding Robert E. Crowe-Bar-
rett-Thompson slate in the republican
party primaries. One is that Harry
Zeff was sentenced to jail for man.
slaughter and the other is that he is
a Communist. A Communist to these
two supporters of union-smashing can
didates is like a red flag to a bull.
Arrested for Union Activity.
On the charge of Zen being muir
derer and convict, Delegate David
son of the International Ladies Gar
ment Workers pointed out that Zeff
was framed up during the course of
strike, as many union men have been
by the bosses and their lackeys, and
that he was released after one year
in prison because the charges against
him were so fiimsy. Yet the fedora
ton heads used this as one of their
arguments against zeff being a candi-
date.
Delegate Davidson then went on to
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cause he is a Communist was not
matter for the federation to discuss,
as this had been settled in the union
after fight that lasted for three days
between the left-wing and the right
wing. He further pointed out that
Zeff is not a member of the Com
munist Party or any Communist or
ganization, but that he is left-winger
who opposed the expulsion policy of
the reactionaries against the Com
munists.
Threaten Sabotage.
The federation in it's letter declared
that If the organization drive was in
the hands of the Communists little
support could be expected from the
bona fide trade unions in the Chicago
Federation of Labor"
The garment workers in Chicago
are mostly unorganized. AS the union
is now carrying on an organization
campaign and the reactionaries in The
union. who had been drawing down
high salaries for doing nothing, feared
that left-wing candidates who insisted
on the organization of these great
masses of unorganized workers would
be elected and they be BUSTED, they
appealed TO the federation to terrorize
the membership Of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers with threats
of sabotage. The threats OF Fitzpat-
rick and Nockels that the organiza-