The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-17
AGREE TO TERMS
OF MASTERS At
$3.50 Per week
Urge Rank and. File
War On Treason
(Bu q Worker Co,resnondean

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PHILADELPHIA, July ID. (By
Mail) At the last meeting of the
Philadelphia Central Labor Union,
on Sunday, July s, Brother Dough-
terry of the Hosiery Workers Union
disclosed the fact that Brother AL
lison, business agent of the District
Council Of the Building Trades, had
tuttered his bread on both sides at
the expense of the union, and had
/ proceeded to eat it. Brother Allison
was sent as delegate to the Penn
sylvania State Federation of Labor
convention with the understanding
that the Central Labor Union would
have to bear no expense, since ALI
son is paid official of the Building
Trades. But 10! and behold! at the
meeting in June Allison and his
friends had pushed through a bill Of
expenses of $50 for the q days of
conventionl
Criticism Suppressed
Doughtery was then steam
rollered in beautiful style, being
ruled out of order in several differ
ent ways. All the cronies in the
c. L. U. rushed to the defense of
the fat boy who, as representative
of the Building Trades machine,
plays a substantial role in control
ling the reactionary C. L. U. One
of these rescuing knights was
Brother McKew, international vice
president of Major Berry's Print
ing Freshmen, who, among other
things, notified Philadelphia labor
that he had just returned from the
Democratic convention at Houston.
Allison's $50 are safe. Doughtery
will be- carefully Strengthened out
and will forget" about bringing
the matter up at the next meeting,
to which it was referred. Unso-
phisticated workers who did not I'M
derstand previously why Allison
weighs about $50 pounds, are now
beginning to see the light.
Meeting Reactionary
The rest of the meeting went off
in true reactionary fashion. A re-
port of the strike situation develop
ing among the Philadelphia Jour
neymen BARRIERS was made. The
journeymen BARRIERS are demanding
an increase in wages from $3.50 a
week to $4,000, and a decrease in
hours from 81 to 53 a week. The
master BARRIERS insist on a cut in
wages to $2S.00. and the old 81
hour week. In the negotiations Of
the union officials with the master
BARRIERS the officialdom agreed to
the old rate of $3.50 week, SELL
ing out the demands of the rank and
file in order to avoid a struggle
against their friends"
However, the master BARRIERS
were not satisfied with this SELL
out. They knew that the limit of
betrayal of these labor takers had
not yet been reached. They in
sisted on the cut to $28.0O. A strike
will ensue, and the Central Labor
Union decided to Cooperate and
support the journeymen BARRIERS"
With the misleaders that they do
have, being assisted by the labor
takers in the C. L. u, the rank and
file workers will have to take things
into their own hands, and. behind
the leadership of the T. U. E. L..
put up a fight against the betrayal
by these false leaders.
More Anti-Labor Policies
The great, noisy campaign of the
Elevator Constructors and Oper-
ators to organize the handful of OPP
orators in the Snellenberg store, and
against the anti-union policy of
that concern, was again inflicted on
the c. L. U. after everybody thought
it had died. The organization meth
DDS of Frank Feenev's outfit are
certainly interesting, if not particu-
larly novel. There is no strike. Of
course not! There is no picketing.
That is unthinkable with Injunc-
I blOH-c uuSt NINDeNlJL just AROUND
the corner. No, tens Of thousands
of letters ana postcards are being
signed by trade unionists in Phla-
delphia, and have been sent to the
Snellenberg store, declaring that no
business would be done with that
firm until they recognized the Elev-
ator Constructors and Operators.
Thus far, the Snellenberg store
hasn't budged, although the Eleva-
tor Constructors claim to have sent
10000 letters. They intend fighting
along this line, even if it takes all
summer. With a fighting, compet-
ent leadership, not only the elevator
Operators, who arc only handful,
but the thousands of girls and
young men who sweat in the de-
partment stores of Philadelphia for
$40 S12 and SIS for 80 hours n
week could be organized with half
the money expended. But the
Feeneys do not want to fight They
khink that it is easier, and it is, to