The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-09
When Expert Liars Disagree

ward with a pious look. And, il
addition, it couldn't forego an OPP
portunity for making one of its
Enthusiastically Shiny attacks OF
the Communists by raking up out o.
the cesspools of the internationa
lle-factories one of those foul Sian
ders which even the most reaction
airy capitalist newspapers have Ions
since washed their hands of.
II do not understand" writes
Reich, "since when it has become
crime among the Communists tt
take money. If Lenin himself coule
take money from the German kaiser
why should it be a crime to borrow
money from a capitalist public ser
want and banker?"
Thus does the Forward, the cor.
rupt scab sheet which for over &c
years has sold out the Jewish work.
ers and grown rich on its sell-outs
revomit this vile SANDER against the
great leader of the proletarian rev.
olution.
A third liar and betrayer of the
workers, the German Volskzeitung
organ of another renegade, Ludwig
Lore, decided to stick its finger into
the pie. On Wednesday, Oct. 20
the Volkszeitung, which has beer
supporting Schlesinger, carried a
story purporting to give interviews
with Schlesinger, Baldwin, Sidney
Hillman, president of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers, and Off
Gals of the Forward. The Volkszei-
tung quotes Baldwin as saying that
the transaction in question took
place one year ago! ("Dies war aber
vor ungefaehr einem Jahre"l
Strange how hard these organs of
betrayal find it to agree. The Ad-
vance says it happened three years
ago, the Volkszc;tung one year ago
and the Forward in May, 1928!
Baldwin Denies.
In a telephone conversation with
the writer, last Tuesday, Baldwin re-
affirmed his original statement and
denied categorically that he had
ever said that the transaction had
taken place either one ors three
years ago. "The money was for
the rehabilitation of the union"
Baldwin said, "and Schlesinger was
the responsible party" Needle
workers know what Schlesinger S
rehabilitation of the union" meant.
They also know that this "rehabili-
tation" deal is of recent origin, as
Schlesinger didn't take charge of
activities in the New York market
until after the fake Boston conven-
ton last May. Baldwin also de-
clared, in written statement issued
on Tuesday to Harvey O'Connor of
the Federated Press, that Schlesin-
ger collected 100000 fund solely
on his own responsibility"
l think the quotations | have
brought here will convince any hon.
est worker that there are assuredly
superb and reckless liars" and that
they have bungled their signals very
badly. But the revelations ir re-
gard to the Lehman deal are after
all not so sensational. Why shouldn't
Schlesinger make a deal with a
banker and why shouldn't the cor
rupt and moribund socialist party
do business with Tammany Hall?
There is, of course, one hitch in all
these deals: Schlesinger and the
Forward gang have been reckoning
without their host. They may be
able to sell their union" for mess
of dollar bills, but they can't sell the
thousands of cloakmakers who are
turning for leadership to the Ma
tional Organization Committee for
a Cloak and Dressmakers Union.
These thousands of cloakmakers
have repudiated the Schlesingers
and their ilk and are going forward
to the building of powerful new
union in the ladies' garment indus
try.