The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-01

suit in making the students
class-trained writer's for the Shop
Newspapers, that must be issued in
ever increasing numbers in the fac
against the officers and the execu-
tive board of our Local.
The vile character of the frame
up worked out is best illustrated by
the fact that A. Baroff, treasurer of
the international, having read the
r1inutes of our Local for an entire
year, admitted to me in the presence
Of Brother N. Standard that there
was nothing in the minutes which
could incriminate our union.
On these frame-up charges we
were called to a committee, and
what were the charges?
The refusal to pay $4,000 for the
old furniture and the set of office
books, depositing of the union funds
in the name of union members, duly
elected for that purpose; payment
of a $500 loan through Local 9, eX-
PEELED from the International.
Later, at a general executive
board meeting of the International,
Greenberg, the traitor, was APP
pointed supervisor of our Local. He
at once issued an order that we
must hold our meetings in the In
ternaticnal building, which we re-
fused. A previous experience, a
meeting in one of their halls, was
very unpleasant for one Of our mem
bers, who had been beaten up by
the gorillas of the International for
daring to ask a question.
Go After Funds.
The second order of Greenberg
was to deposit the money of the Lo-
cal in the name of the International;
this our membership at well-at-
tended meeting of about 600 unani-
mously refused to do. We pleaded
with the International again to let
this matter rest until we had signed
an agreement with the association
and that afterwards we would be
willing to submit to a vote or to an
election.
But our pleading was in vain.
They could not get the money and
decided to break the Local, regard
less of what might result to the
conditions and standards of our
workers, who had so bitterly fought
for those conditions.
The clique then signed an agree
ment with the association Of the
boss pleaters without the knowledge
of the rank and file and forced the
workers to register with Green
berg's scab agency. When workers
in our trade refused to register, the
clique united with the bosses to
lock out these workers and prom
Used to send them others whom the
International tried to get by adver-
Using in the "World." Greenberg
and his little assistant worked hard
at the time of the lockout in point
ing out. to the police our pickets for
arrest.
Secure Injunction.
Finally the International. with
the aid of the bosses, secured an in
junction against Taft and the ex-
ecutive board. Failing in that they
sent gorillas and gangsters to beat
up the workers and to force them
to register.
After that ten months passed by
and our trade, which had operated
under union standards of hours and
wages, was ruined by the Interna-
tional.
Already the International had
sold out one Of the largest shops in
the trade to the bosses by allowing
them to throw out a large number
Of workers who had worked in that
shop for years. to reduce wages and
to work overtime for time and a
quarter.
The bosses now feel that they can
do anything they please with the
workers. How long will the work
ers of our trade tolerate such con-
ditions?
Your Local al, fuckers, Hem
stitchers, Pleater and Novelty
Workers Union, at w. 2lst ST., is
now again calling you to rebuild
your union.
Duty Is to Fight.
Your duty to yourself and other
workers in our trade is again to or
ganize your union.
We have now affiliated with the
National Organization Committee,
which is ready to give US all the
necessary help in rebuilding our
union.
Come to our office, where your
union, the union Of the workers, is
located, West 2ist st. See your
manager, Brother Taft, for more
particulars. Stop paying dues to
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