The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-12
F1ill1nan's Amalgamated-- The Pet Union
of the Liberal" IntelleCtuals
History Corruption The Cohen and Beck
Conditions n Industry Practical Statesman
What Has To Be Done.

| LuEeTS. ne LOOK CHECKS from employ
ers. Nevertheless, without returning
to the trade, Cohen was installed once
more on the union payroll within a
year after the Chicago convention.
At the same time the cleft wing"
became stronger and asked for re-
forms that I have already mentioned.
Hillman Makes Peace With Cohen.
Hillman and his G. F. B. made peace
with H. Cohen, the Forward" and
his clique. They were all taken back
into the organization. Of course Hill
man double-crossed the lefts and the
iefts made grave mistake by giving
Hillman time to make peace with H.
Cohen and Forward" clique which,
the lefts knew, would do everything
in their power to GUST them from the
organization. Today H. Cohen is or
ganizer of the Amalgamated- the
man who advised the bosses to move
out-of-tcwn is now working for the
organization. Yesterday for the
bosses, today for the union
Beckerman Next.
Furthermore Hillman took in A.
Beckerman, a person he always dis
liked, and made him manager of the
New York Joint Board without an
election. Hillman appointed Becker
man as manager because he knew
Reckerman likes to be a Mussolini.
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with his gang which broke up meet
ings, black-jacked members, deprived
workers of their jobs or threw them
from their shops? Beckerman sue
ceeded in crushing the left wing for
while and kept in submission the
disconnected workers. This was a
lesson for the progressives; they will
know how to maneuver better when
the time comes. Hillman reorganized
local unions, expelled individual mem
bers. Of course he is shrewder than
Sigman He killed the Individual ac-
tivity in order that his group should
be kept in power
The Record.
Hillman and Schlossberg thought
that nobody would remind them of
what they had said and written dur
ing the fight in 1921-22 At a meet
ing in Manhattan Lyceum Hillman
said that H. Cohen can never come
back into the Amalgamated without
stepping over my dead body" Schloss-
berg said he would resign before he
would sign a check for H. Cohen. j.
B. S. Hartman (Salutsky) caucussed
with the lefts in order to fight H.
Cohen. Charles w. Erwin was one of
the investigation committee and was
employed at the Amalgamated. Not
one of these people ever dared to say
anything for the last three years in
time when they knew that corrup-
ton was existing in the Amalgamated
Union in New York. These former
revolutionists are doing it for prin-
ciple?
practical Statesmen
The editors of the Amalgamated
organs are very busy writing classic
editorials praising it's leaders for the
wonderful work they are doing for
the members. The editor of the Adj
, vance is doing mis- utmost to show
Amalgamated members are better off
than in the other needle trades. The
leaders of the Amalgamated know
strategy, they know economic condi-
items, they don't believe in calling
strikes for the 40-hour week like
unions in the other needle trades did
eve in the Amalgamated are prac-
teal statesmen. Therefore cur MEM
bers are better off today than the
workers in the other needle trades
BIT the members have another
story 20 tell. In New York, Amalga-
mated members are working under
the most unhuman conditions. There
is no standard of production" but
every season you have to make more
and more-there is no limit.
The only ones who are making a
living today are the Ar,algamated
staff and the editors. This is the
"good work" the Hillman machine has
created in New York and conditions
are becoming worse every day.
The outside world and the intel
lectuals still consider the Amalgama-
ted radical and progressive organi-
zation. In the Nation OF May IL, 1927
Benjamin Stolberg wrote on article
on conditions in the Aralgamated
end the tactical genius of Iillnan.
Stolberg interviewed Hillman anC
TIilhnan said "our organization is
stronger than ever before" The Ma
ton as an intellectual magazine
claims that they give their readers