The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-04
CHICAGO T. U. {. |.
MEET PLANS ITS
LEFT WING WORK
Cops Come But Decide
They Got "Bum Steer"

The local general group Of the
Trade Union Educational League held
very interesting and successful
meeting Wednesday evening at Mirror
Hall, 1140 North Western avenue,
where a number Of actions, among
them the election of new executive
committee for the Chicago league,
testified to new life and interest in
left wing activity as did the packed
hail.
Curious Police Get Education.
An additional zest was added by the
police department, when it inserted an
item on the agenda by sending in a
batch of dicks" who nosed about,
questioned the chairman, J. W. John
stone, and finally decided they had
been given bum steer" Their alibi
was that they were looking for cer>
tain Shoe Repairers' meeting at which
their old friends, "Scar-face Al' and
big Tim" Murphy and his ilk were
expected. They left after tombstone
presented them with the T. U. E. l..
pamphlet on organizing the morgan
lied" and would have taken a batch
Of tickets for the T. U. E. L. New
Years Eve ball, had not tombstone
gently reminded them that these tick
cts are so cents each.
GitIow Speaks.
Owing to the illness of VIM. q. Fos-
ter, who was to be the speaker of the
evening, Benjamin Gitlow of New
York spoke in his place, and delivered
lecture on the events and signiti-
canoe of the T. U. E. l.. in the needle
trades that held the audience in rapt
attention.
With the T. U. L. struggle against
the right wing in the needle trades,
said Gitlow, the left wing ended its
period of existence as an opposition
and became the administration. This
placed a new problem before the left
wing as a whole-the practical direc-
ton of the unions.
Graphic accounts of the struggle in
the furriers' and cloakmakers' strikes
were given, in both of which the right
wing had used tactics designed to sa-
botage the strike in the hope of charg-
ing it's loss on the left wing admins
tration. In the furriers' strike the
left wing was better situated than in
the cloakmakers' strike, owing to the
situation of the industry, the position
of the union in the industry and the
stronger position Of the right wing in
the /. L. G. w. and its more cunning
tactics.
Amalaamation the Big Issue.
In both strikes the right wing had
worked hand in glove with the bosses
In the furriers it had done so openly
and was openly discredited. Sigman
had learned from that lesson, and in
the cloakmakers' strike had cunningly
pretended to support the strike, while
secretly knitting it in combination with
the right wing in all needle trades
unions, particularly in the A. C., w.
which had become a bulwark of reac
ton.
The right wing in all needle unions
had combined in a new offensive, sale
Gitlow, and this made imperative thai
the left wing also combine and carry
out the only policy under which these
unions could advance the interests OF
the workers-the policy Of amalgama
ton. Amalgamation is the big issue
before the needle trades, and only by
united effort and militant fight by
the left wing can this be accomplished
as altho the unions are officially OF
= record for it, the right wing is OBJ
structing 1t.
The meeting instructed the various
industrial groups to take new lines o
activity looking to building up the pro
gressive movement and strengtheninl
left wing organization.