The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18
By BEN eIrLow

THE New Leader of November 10
4 contains an editorial on the meet
ing held by the Amalgamated Section
of the Trade Union Educational
League on Saturday November at
the Central Opera House, New York
City.
Ignoring entirely the issues raised
at the meeting, the editorial concludes
as follows: $685. au
cat any rate we are unable to tell
where the spy ends and the Commun-
list begins and there is reason for be-
lieving that in some cases both are
employed by the same paymaster."
The editorial also charges that the
meeting was a mask for the Commun-
list Party.
One. The meeting was called by
the Amalgamated Section of the Trade
Union Educational League, not by the
Communist Party.
Two. The meeting was called in
order to explain how the reactionary
machine in the Amalgamated was
helping the Cloakmakers who were
out on strike for 10 weeks.
Three. The direct cause for the
calling of the meeting was the fact
that a number of workers were de-
prived of their jobs upon the order of
Beckerman, manager of the New York
Joint Board of the .Amalgamated, be-
cause they dared to take up in their
shops collections for the striking
cloakmakers. Some of those dis
charged for this reason were Sam Lip
zen, A. Nelson, Philip Aronberg.
Facts Of Meeting.
THE following facts were brought
Il out at the meeting
THAT BecKerman. the manager OF
i the New York Joint Board, during
the Cloakmakers' strike, with the ap-
prevail of Hillman, closed a most
shameful agreement with the New
York clothing manufacturers. In the
agreemen not a single demand was
won by the union. At time when
other needle trades unions had won
or were fighting for the 40-hour week,
and other demands, the Amalgamated
accepted a 44-hour week, and gave
further concessions to the manufac-
turers. The announcement of the
Amalgamated agreement brought forth
a statement by Mr.. Finder, represent
ing the cloak bosses, who were most
bitterly fighting the union, praising
the agreement and the leaders Of the
Amalgamated. This agreement &C
cepted during the early stages OF the
cloakmakers' strike, and after the fur
riers had won a notable victory and
the 40 hours, was a blow at the cloak
makers and a great aid to the cloak
bosses.
A. c. w. Delays.
O-That in spite of the fact that
4 Sidney Hillman as president OF
the Amalgamated at the meeting call
ed at Madison Square Garden to vote
in favor of the strike, pledged the
whole hearted support of the Amalga-
mated to the impending struggle, the
Amalgamated failed until very late
in the struggle to assist the cloak
makers, and then in driblets, the total
sums amounting to only $27,5OO, an
insignificant amount for an organiza-
ton like the Amalgamated. That the
Amalgamated is the one union in the
needle trades that is in a very good
position to financially assist the cloak
makers.
O-That Abraham Beckerman, the
- New York Joint Board manager,
without the interference Of Hillman
and the general Executive board dur
ing the course of the strike worked
closely with the opposition forces IN
the cloakmakers and carried on a
vicious campaign against the strike
and its left wing leaders.
I-That the decision to tax the mem
4 bers of the New York Joint Board
of the Amalgamated for cloakmakers
relief was made after Beckerman had
given strict orders that there must be
no collections taken for the striking
cloakmakers in the shops, after a
number of workers were discharged
for doing so upon the orders Of Beck