The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-26
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ultut mduS Win GOlu6u hul6 NASH
of Cincinnati, declared. 81 trust every
body that is honest and if Nash com
ing to me for a conference said, All
good christians should join union,
believe him. Many manufacturers
do not want to believe that, particular
ly the Philadelphia manufacturers, and
those not falling in line will come in
sooner or later.
1.-THE agreement was made without
strike and it is no worse than that
made in Chicago with the Information
al and J. L. Taylor company"
Agreements Dark Secret.
After this weak defense OF the Nash
and the International and ]. L. Tay-
Tor Co. agreements, which are kept
a dark secret as far as the members
Of the Amalgamated are concerned, he
launched into an attack on the left
wingers, who dared fight for real union
conditions and for clean union, with
out gangsters menacing those who
dared to differ from the machine.
In referring to the Chicago left wing
Hillman declared: "In the beginning
of 1925 the saviors of the Amalgam-
ated' came to Chicago to disrupt the
good spirit Of the Amalgamated, and
then charged the left wing with going
to the bosses urging them not to sign
the agreement. He failed to mention
that it was the left wing that estab-
lished mass picketing around the In
ternational and j. L. Taylor Co. that
helped to win the strike.
He called the left wingers, The
DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit
scab agencies. He tried to make the
members Of the union believe that the
Freiheit had not supported the
strikers in Passaic and that the Fret
heit had carried stories calling il
fake strike. Hillman forgot" to tell
Local 80 members that the Freiheit
carried stories telling of the strike
and urged all Of the workers in
Passaic to support the strike and told
how members of unions affiliated to
the Passaic Central Labor Council
picketed the garment shops when
Outside" garment workers were
threatened with Jail sentences and
heavy fines.
He dwelt on the anthracite miners
strike, telling of how The DAILY
WORKER in the midst of strike at
tackled union officials, weakened their
influence and declared dramatically,
What is it, if it is not a scab
ageney?" What Hillman forgot to tell
the garment workers was that it was
The DAILY WORKER and the mil
liant left wing miners who attempted
to get the union to call out the main
tenance men and in this way insure
the victory Of the strikers over the
coal operators. He forgot in his
speech to tell of how Lewis has been
double-crossing the miners. That
didn't matter to Sidney Hillman! He
was attacking the left wing!
Draft "Proeram."
Hillman struck dramatic pose and
declared that before the general exc
cutive board met they called upon the
left wing to- present their program.
'But the left wing had no program,
so we drafted up this program of &C.
ton for New York, which includes one
joint board with special provisions
for the cutters on finance, bringing
back New York to the Amalgamated
spirit. These left wingers are now
coming out protesting against the
program and good work we are going
to do"
Crude Frame-up.
The New York left wing had to
bear the brunt of his attack, New
York was far away and he thought
Chicago members would not be
familiar with conditions there. He
told Of a shop chairmen's meeting
that was called to approve of the
program" and special admittance
cards were printed. Somebody" he
said, forged the card. The forged
card was badly spelled and had no
number on the union label and a men,
Der of the Hockey" gang presented
1t at the door" His attempt to pin
this onto the left wing was so crude
that many members laughed outright
as they know that it is his machine
that hires sluggers and gangsters and
no one knows better than his machine
who the gangsters and sluggers are
Many of the union members called 4:
frame-up and declared that If a real
probe was carried on it would end in
the offices of the Hillman machine.
HiIlman Gets His.
After Hillman had performed his
act, Hyman Schneid, president Of
Local 80, took the floor and pointed
out that the one joint board for New
York was one of the left wing pro-
posals and not one of Hillman's and
that Hlilman had just taken the left
wing program and putting it into
effect because pressure is being
brought upon him by the membership.