The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

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The assertion that the Trade Union
Educational League is a dual union is
made to justify the explosions of milit-
ants from the organization, victim
izing those who propagate amalgama-
ton, independent working class pol
itical action, the shop delegate system,
and the class struggle as against class
collaboration.
Seek Fake Issues.
The general executive board of the
Amalgamated at their last quarterly
session was confronted with a prob
lem of vital importance to the organi-
cation; namely, to bring internal
peace in the New York organization
which would bring the New York or
ganization out of the present state of
chaos, that the present bureaucracy
thru their policies and tactics have
plunged the organization into. Real
izing that the New York membership
is awakening to this fact, the bureau
cracy in search for an excuse for this
chaos picks-up the old cry of out
side" interference and that the T. u.
E. L. dual union, hoping by this
charge to shift the blame onto other
shoulders.
The Advance in an editorial on
Jan. definitely charges the T. u.
e. l.. with being a dual union-unless,
they say, the old dictionaries have
gone mad and they further promise
not to discard the old dictionaries. We
accept the old dictionaries and after
consulting one for a definition on
dual unionism we found that any or
ganization working within a labor
union that performs the functions of
a labor union becomes a dual union.
A union comes into existance prim-
arily for the purpose of solidifying the
workers in their struggle against the
employers, the capitalist class and to
deal collectively on questions Of hours,
wages and conditions, and force the
bosses thru the use of the unions
economic power to grant the demands
of the workers. This Is the essence
of a trade unionism. No organization
can be a labor union unless it per-
forms these functions.
7. U. E. L. Not Dual Union.
The membership of the Amalgama-
ted who adhere to the principles OF the
Trade Union Educational League do
not perform such functions, and the
general executive board has not shown
one instance where the workers in
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers or
in any other union, who are members
of the league, have made any direct
demands upon employers, carried on
negotiations with employers, signed
any agreements or performed the func-
lions of a trade union.
The Trade Union Educational
League teaches the workers certain
progressive principles. 1t teaches them
to be militant. 1t encourages them to
take more interest in their union, to
actively participate in every phase of
the life Of the union. surely, you can.
not call this dual unionism.
J. B. S. Hardman in an article en-
titled Constructive Radicalism in the
Needle Trades" appearing in the La
Dor Herald, the official organ of the
League, in the issue of May 1922
points out that the radicals who ac-
cepted the principles and the leader
ship of the league are coming into the
conventions of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers and the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers with
a truly constructive program for these
organizatlb pms. The league Of 1925 has
the same principles and detectives
that It had in 1922. The Amalgamated
in 1922 did not condemn the league as
a dual union. Why do they do It
today? The reason is very simple.
MIlltants For Class Struggles.
The Amalgamated leadership has
succeeded in ORIGINATING the organi-
zation from its former position in the
labor movement as the most progress
sive and fighting organ TO one OF back
ing class collaboration. This policy OF
class collaboration is responsible for
the chaos in the New York market.
The conditions OF the workers today
are much worse than in former years.
The policy Of the bureaucracy has
brough about general Generalization
Of the membership and has almost
killed the fighting spirit Of the work.
ers.
Tho militants Of tho organization