The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-05
By Y. @.

the international Association OF
Machinists hate Communism and
the Communists, but the convention
demonstrated on a number of occa-
sions an unconscious tribute by the
grand lodge to the Communists.
The issue of Communism arose to
plague the officialdom on several
occasions.
In order to suppress the right of
Simons, Lodge 1879, Chicago, to ap-
peal to the credentials committee
against removal as a delegate, the
International president denied the
right of a member to appeal to the
credentials committee.
They had to violate every princi-
pal of fair play and constitutional
rights, when Fry, the Chicago boss,
bull-dozed the delegate raising ST.
mons protest, by Threatening to
"can him, if he sympathizes with
Simons."
Communists on the Job.
In the Tim Buck case, the COM
plant was that in the Oshawa Gen.
eral Motors strike, when the Inter
national Unions sent organizers into
the situation, "they found when
they got there that the Workers
Party was already there sending
out bills, calling meetings, and an
attempt was made to put in ma
tional organization covering the
automobile workers in the city of
Oshawa." The significant thing is
that the Workers Party of Canada
was on the job before the takers
began to move. Furthermore, the
policy of establishing one industrial
union in the automobile industry is
correct, as against the A. F. of L.
policy of splitting the workers into
a score of unions. Secretary
Treasurer Davison's speech was full
of false and malicious charges. He
accuses Communists of working
for the employers"
What gall! These takers, who
have gone down on their knees,
cringing before the master class,
this man Dawson who stole the
1925 Grand Lodge election, accuse
revolutionists of working for the
employers! These lickspittles of
capital, these parasitic wolves, ac-
cuse those workers who have fought
against the bosses at all times. Da-
vison also took a whack at Fosters
book, "Misleaders of Labor" but he
carefully refrained from pointing
out any errors.
No Evidence Against Price.
In the case of II. G. Price, Lodge
70, Seattle, the evidence showed
that Price was a member for 10
years, working at the trade; that
he had not received a trial; that
Wharton expelled him, on evidence
from President Green, for being on
a Miners Relief Committee which
had connections with the Pittsburgh
National Miners Relief Committee;
that Lodge 70 had elected Price and
others to serve on this committee.
Duncan, from the Seattle Labor
Council, admitted that che could al
ways count on Price to help in
building the auto local in Seattle"
And still, Price was expelled by
Wharton for "Communistic activi-
ties" Lodge 70 stood with Price
against his expulsion.
And when Sandvigen, delegate
from Lodge 70, and others had
blown the case against Price to
smithereens, then the appeals COM
mittee added that months after the
expulsion, Price was seen distribut-
ing in the lodge room the progress
sive Statement to the l. A. of M.
Convention" When Sandvigen pro-
tested that this new evidence could
only be used in a new trial, the
committee had nothing to say, but
to repeat mechanically, price must
60"
The action in the Price case, the
convention endorsing Wharton's ar
bitrary action, with some delegates
dissenting, however, shows that in
its ferocious attacks on opponents,
the Grand Lodge does not permit
the constitution to stand in the way.
A member has no protection. The
Grand Lodge does not have to fur
nish proof.
Hates Russia.
On an amendment proposed by
the Grand Lodge to have a strict
hold on local lodge funds, Dawson
referring to illegitimate expendi-
lures, asked: "How many local
lodges donated money to the Com
munist propaganda that went thru
the organization seeking to destroy
your Grand LODGE" Referring to
the trade union delegation to Rus
STA, he charged that the delegates
got instructions from Russia as fol-
lows: Get into these organizations
and destroy their treasures, That