The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-21
BUDENZ- --LABOR FAKER,
IN KENOSHA

Dan Hoan, of Milwaukee, Budenz,
after enumerating the outrages per-
petrated by the hoodlums of the
Allen A. Co. against the strikers,
remarked; "We extend our hand
to Allen A. asking for co-opera-
ton" And soon thereafter in an
issue of the "Kenosha Hosiery
Worker the strikers semi-monthly
bulletin, edited under the inspira-
ton Of Budenz, we find considerable
space devoted to a gem among
class-collaboration policies: The bull
letin announces that the leadership
of the strike is willing to offer
$4,000 as a guarantee that as much
or more goods will be produced by
the strikers under a one-machine
system as under a two-machine sys-
TEN, and therefore the company has
no reason for trying to install
two-machine system on the strikers.
But the firm, in spite of the beg
ging and cringing attitude of the
leadership headed by Budenz, stub
bornly held out in its attempt to
smash the strike. And the Young
Workers League continued it's active
participation in the strike and con-
tinued to urge militant methods ex-
rcsing one by one the attempts of
Budenz to settle the strike against
the interest of the workers. When
the president of the local Chamber
of Commerce and publisher of the
"Kenosha Evening News" Mr.
Kingsley, called secret conference
Of both sides in the dispute in an
attempt to put something over on
the strikers, the League warned the
young workers against this man.
euver of the bosses.
Budenz, desperate at the Leagues
constant efforts in behalf of the
strikers which prevented him from
getting the strike off his hands by
betrayal, showed the depths he
was capable of sinking into. In the
Chicago Tribune of Aug. 26 Budenz
is quoted in an interview as stating
N connection with the terrorism
and bombings that have taken place
from time to time in Kenosha at the
instigation of the gunner and pri-
vate detective agents of Allen A..
as follows: eff the firm is not re-
sponsible for them, it was probably
done by a small number of Com
munists of the Young Workers
League"
Aids Frame-up of Youth.
This was quite a deliberate at
tempt to have the Allen A. Co., the
police and the local government
frame-up members Of the League on
trumped-up charge of bombing"
This is on a par with the methods
used by the industrial spies and
frame-up agents which during the
course of the strike he pretended to
vigorously oppose. Nor is this all.
Not so long ago spy was discov-
cred in a local machinists' union.
Budenz Immediately gave his name
publicity in the strikers bulletin.
And in the same issue of the bull
letin we have the following signifi-
cant sentence: eve warn Q-170,
connected with a radical group
here, that we know of his activities
also" We later ascertained that
this Q-170 was an industriql spy,
one John P. Bugno, who been
member of the Worker Party
until quite recently, when he was
expelled What is significant, how
ever, is that it was ascertained that
Budenz had known for a long time
about Bugno as an industrial spy,
hut had kept silent, and had we not
ascertained this through other chan
nels he would no doubt have been
still inside the Party doing haD1.
And while erumerating some of
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