The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26

Sketch of the proposed new SIP
roof, 500 by 500 feet, for landing
knowingly works on any job where
a strike exists, or who knowingly aids
or assists any employer or person
against whom a labor union has a
grievance, by working, by inducing
others to work, or in any other way
whatsoever, or who betrays any of
the secrets of the organization, shall
be expelled" Article 5, second. para
graph Of section 2 says: "The General
Council shall have full executive
power, but shall possess no legisla-
tive power, nor shall they have power
to alter, amend, or suspend any part
of the constitution"
Now according to Article 70, sec
ton /, Local sc should have been
expelled from the organization, but
instead, the General Council broke
this and another law of the constitu-
ton. Article 5, second paragraph
of section p by changing the law of
Article II, Section l. They also, in
justifying the action of Local 66 made
themselves guilty of the same of
fence that Local &C committed: by
justifying the action of Local 66 they
induce the cutters to work on a job
where a strike exists by making them
believe that it is all right to do so.
Also in the preamble of our con-
stitution, paragraph states that:
''We affirm that the workers have a
natural right to choose their own
representatives and to deal with their
employers collectively through these
chosen representatives" The Gen
eral Council also broke this by re-
voking the charter of the District
Council which consisted of repre-
sentation of three delegates from
each local, and placing a dictatorship
of organizers over the members. You
Brother Nolan, at our meeting yes
terday, under the accuse of dbeying
the orders of thu General Council,
first put the so-c1 nj reasons of the
General Council b revoking the
District Council dhter before the
members of Local ID. But when you
saw that you had not convinced the
members that the wrong attitude of
the General Council was right you de-
manded (it is true, in a diplomatic
way) that we recognize the decision
of the General Council in regard to
the District Council or else you would
revoke the charter of our local. Even
this you did not do as man in the
position of President Of the S. W. P.
U. should by taking at least part of
the responsibility for this action on
yourself but in order 60 play safe you
insisted that you we're only acting
under the instructions Of the General
Council and this alone shows how in
capable you are to hold the respons-
ible job of president of the S. w.
p. U. which office, to the hard luck
of the shoe workers throughout the
country you are now holding.
l also charge you and the General
Secretary, Brother Fitzgerald of be-
ing the cause of trouble in many
shops where the employers areSnow
trying to Dust the union and its con-
ditions from their factories as d.
rect result of the advertisement which
you ran for several days in the
"World" notifying every one of the
revocation of the charter of the Dis
trict Council l charge that every
factory which we may lose that you
will be responsible for it. l charge
that every dollar that will be lost by
the New York shoe workers on ac-
count of strikes will be your fault.
I charge that you are deliberately
trying to break the S. W. P. U. in
New York so that you will be more
secure in your jobs as you fully real
ize that you would not be able to hold
your jobs forever with the workers
constantly demanding that you get to
work and organize instead of losing
members as you have up to this time.
Now, tell me Brother Nolan, why
you are acting this way? Why do
you and Brother Fitzgerald do your
utmost to keep the S. w. P U. from
increasing its membership? Why
must you be an indirect tool of the
employers and try to diprganize the
shoe workers? What wrong have the
shoe workers done you except to give
you a chance to get an easy living ?
What crime have the shoe workers
committed against you besides giving
you chance to live at time when
they themselves barely exist? Think
of it, all the harm that the Shoe
workers have ever done you, small
wages Ia petty ninety dollars week
or so including eXpenses), but you
must excuse the shoe workers and be
men enough to use little considera-
ton, for after all, what do you ex-
pect for nothing? What wages did
you expect without doing any work
for the organization Why do you