The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-18
CLUB MEETS need
OF The JEWELLERS
Is Welcomed; Growth
Is Rapid
by a Worker Correspondent

tBY a w OF6eT Correspondent
When the Jewelry Workers We'll
fare Club was organized five months
ago, it was confronted with the diff
cult task of drawing. in the demon
allied, disorganized jewelry work
ers who by now were getting tired
of being called repeatedly to union
mass meetings which always result
ed in a fizzle.
But in spite of the prevailing con-
ditions the organization of our club
was welcomed Immediately by the
workers and it has had a healthy
steady growth since.
Need for Club.
The few affairs that we have had
in this short period of activity have
proved to the most pessimistic of
US the great possibilities and great
need of such an organization.
Still the growth of our club, altho
it is social mutual aid club, has
greatly alarmed the right wing
jewelry bosses of Local l, Interna-
tional Jewelry Workers Union. Upon
learning of the existence of the club,
they Immediately called together
their fellows and passed an illegal
resolution condemning the club as a
dual union. And they then pro-
ceeded to expel illegally all the most
active members of the CLUB who hap
pened also to be the most active
members of the union.
They were so sure of the demon
alizing effect of their terror that
the president predicted that "at the
next dying meeting the club will
automatically disband." He pointed
to the successful elimination of the
former general secretary, ABE
Greenstein, by Local 1 and the In
ternational and predicted the same
fate for the club.
Allege Greenstein Was Corrupt.
That there is no comparison be-
tween the two cases does not ap-
pear to Beardsley and Co. They
don't realize that Abe Greenstein
was corrupt, INSCRIPTIONS indi-
vidual who was hated by all the
progressive elements in the Inter
national. Now it is Mr.. Beardsley,
who was then in the opposition, who
uses Greensten's dirty tactics ana
is in turn despised by all progress
sive elements. But their desperate
tactics only make matters worse for
them. Already some of their sup
porters who even voted to outlaw
the club, have broken away from
them, joined the club and are among
its active members.
While the Beardsley crowd in des-
peration commit blunder after blum
der, the club grows in numbers and
influence. We are already arrang-
ing ball and concert for November
3, at New Webster Manor.
We appeal to all jewelers. not to
hesitate put TO JOIN the club and
help to build up an organization of
jewelry workers that will raise the
jewellers from their present chaotic
state Of mind into class conscious
workers.
1t is also up to the members to
take advantage of the present favor
able sentiment among the workers
and to draw them into the club in
greater and greater numbers.
All jewelers. should also get into
the Union and see to it that we clean
Local l of the clique that is re-
tarding its growth. Demand a new
organizer, a new executive board,
instead of the hand-picked dead
heads. Demand the reinstatement
of the expelled members and the
activization of all elements willing
to work to build up a strong union
Beardsley and his clique would
not and could not build the union.
They must go! S. C.