The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-20

Decentralization of membership, re-
duction of wages, increased the
number of open shops, a general dis
regard Of the union by the employers,
etc.
To solve the New York situation
the A. G. w. leadership proposes to
establish dictatorship. A triumvirate
of G. e. B. members to assist the
dictatorship, adopted certain reforms
advocated by the left wing member
ship and an extensive organization
campaign.
Cooperation Must Be Mutual.
The administration has not seen
fit to cooperate with the membership
in their demands. The New York
workers demand the resignation of the
old corrupt officials, and new cleo
tion for the whole city. They de-
mand freedom Of expression, the re-
moval of thugs from union halls.
The membership demands a rank and
file organization committee for a sue
cessful organization campaign.
The basis for unity in New York,
as laid down by the general executive
board, is just contrary to the demands
Of the rank and file. No new cleo
tions. All corrupt officials remain at
their post. A dictator-manager ap-
pointed with full power to act. A
triumvirate of general executive board
members, consisting of Sam Rissman,
Chicago, Inauguration of terrorism:
August Ballaneu, the man who hirts
with revolutionary phraseology. and
Blumberg, the New York politician, to
assist Beckerman, the dictator-man-
ager, to bring about unity and peace
in the New York organization.
Aid Craft Autonomy.
The G. e. B. has not seen fit to unite
the cutters with the tailers under one
joint board, again permitting the cut
ters to enjoy full autonomy at the ex-
pense of the tailors. Disregarding
completely the painful experience that
the N. Y. organization went thru in
the past few years, cutters cutting
garments when tailors are on strike
permitting the manufacturers to make
up these garments in open shops.
This concession to the cutters Of
ficials by the Hillman administration
is betrayal of the workers. 1t was
done for political purposes to permit
full autonomy to the cutters and to
appoint Beckerman, a business agent
of the cutters organization, as man.
ager, to get control of the key local
of New York by the Hillman forces,
and to use it as club against the rest
OF the workers. Beckerman's concep-
ton Of putting the New York market
into shape is: y Back to piece work:
y autonomy for the cutters; 81 ex-
pulsion of militant workers; A. col
laborating with the employers; 81 to
rule by reign of terror.
Dual Union Bunk.
The G. E. B. goes further in their
camoufaged cry for solidifcation of
the New York membership and brands
the militant and active workers as
dual unionists, as disrupters of the or
ganization. The action committee, the
7. U. e. L., in fact all workers who
are in opposition to the present cor
rupt New York officialdom, are brand.
ed as dual unionists.
The very people who, during the
international and ]. L. Taylor strike.
went out on mass picketing, the very
workers who fought the Harry Cohens
and his kind, who in the past years
have consistently fought for the bet
terment and the upbuilding Of the
organization, are today labeled as
breakers of the union and all other
sorts of lies the G. E. B. could
think of.
The Members Know.
II the. G. e. B. hopes to convince
the vast membership by these brazen
lies about the loyalty of those men,
bers who accept the leadership of the
action committee and the T. U. E. L.,
they are badly mistaken, because they
forget that it was the Joint Action
Committee and the T. u. e. l.. in the
|. L. G. w. and the T. u. e. L. in the
Furriers that led the workers to vic
tory in their struggle against their
corrupt bureaucracy and reign of ter
ror.
The G. E. B. has again reiterated its
decision on an organization campaign.
1t will take more then decisions of the
G. p. b. to organize the unorganized
clothing workers in this country.
They must be sincere in their deci.
sions. The organization must first
make the organization department
functioning institution, with capable
men at work, not an asylum for polit-
ical refugees or a dumping ground
for job seekers.
New Methods Of Campaign.
The A. G. w. leadership must once
and for all understand that no sue
cessful organization campaign could
be accomplished thru the old, orthodox
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