The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
ADLER GARMENT
WORKERS EAGER
FOR "DAILIES'
Progre ssive Group
Issues Demands
lBg a Worker Correspondentl

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MILWAUKEE (By Bain.-The
d istribution of The DAILY
WORKER and the II Lavoratore
among the locked-out clothing
workers of the Adler shops was OBJ
jected to by the local Amalgamated
union officials.
Not Against Rank and File.
The reason given by the officials
for their bitter opposition to The
DAILY WORKER and II Lavora-
tore is attacking the Amalgamated
union. When Pippenhager, bust
ness agent Of the Amalgamated
here, made this accusation in the
presence Of the members of the
union on the picket line, I protested
against the statement, pointing out
that the criticism bv The DAILY
WORKER wss not directed against
the rank and file of the Amalga-
mated union, but against the class
collaboration policy of the official
dom.
"This policy of the Amalga-
mated" said Sidney Hillman, presi-
dent of the Amalgamated, while in
Milwaukee some time ago sis to
help the employers to be as pros
porous as possible" Against this
policy of the officialdom the Com
munists will always object and
fight.
The officials of the Amalgamated
here are up in arms because leaf
let's were distributed among the
members of the union signed by the
Amalgamated Progressive Group.
The Progressive Group in this leaf
let demanded that more effective
picketing be ignored by the union.
The leaflets criticized the policy of
cooperation with the bosses by the
officials. The Progressive Group
put forward the following demands:
100 per cent. union ship; 40-hour
week; no piece work; increase in
wages; no arbitration clause in the
agreement.
The officialdom of the Amalga-
mated has placed the responsibility
for the issuing of the leaflets by the
Progressive Group to the Workers
(Communist) Party. The officials
were telling the workers that only
agents of Adler Company could is
sue such leaflets. They have done
everything to antagonize the men,
bers of the union to the Workers
(Communist) Party.
Misrepresent Communists.
This fight of the officials of the
Amalgamated against the Party has
another reason in the fact that Leo
Krzicki, the organizer of the
Amalgamated has been nominated
as the candidate of the socialist"
party for the office of secretary of
state in the coming elections. The
Amalgamated officialdom is lined
up in support of Leo Krzicki and
against the Workers (Communist)
Party. They are attempting in an
underhand manner to misrepresent
the Party in the eyes of the Anal
gamated union members.
Slanderous accusations against
our Party are not the only means
used by the officialdom. They are
threatening to use violence against
those who would dare to distribute
the literature of the Progressive
Group or of the Party among the
Amalgamated rank and file men,
bers.
They are prohibiting members of
the Party from participating in
picketing the Adler shops. The bust
ness agent, Pippenhager, called upon
the policemen, who are protecting
the Adler scabs, to remove the
writer of these lines from the
picket line, saying that if the police
man will not do it then he, Pippen-
hager~ himself, will remove me.
Under protest I have left the
picket line, stating that the actions
Of the business agent will be pub
lished in The DAILY WORKER.
Threats of violence by the off.
Gals of the Amalgamated only show
that they have no satisfactory an.
swer to the criticism of the Progress
sive Group and the Communists.
B. SKLAR.