The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-17
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Group" AS AID
TO The BOSSES
Back Organizations of
the Left Wing

OK felloWShlp OIL BrOOKWoOd COl-
lege, consisting of graduates of the
institution, adopted resolution
criticizing sharply its new, open
right wing policies. The meeting,
which was held Friday night, at the
Civic Club, IS E. 10th St., also
adopted resolution denouncing the
dismissal from the school of DR..
Arthur W. Calhoun, economics in
structor, because he opposed the re-
Gently formed Conference for So
called Progressive Action, which
grew out of the "Muste Group"
A large number of Brookwood
graduates spoke before the vote on
the resolutions and discussed not
only the character of the school, but
also the recent two-day conference
held in New York, at which A. J.
Music, director of Brookwood, led
the attack on the left wing.
Analyze Conference.
The recent conference was char
acterized by speakers as Gig leaf
for the anti-workingclass activities
of the right wing in the labor move
ment." They cited the presence at
the conference of Spector, who poses
as a progressive in Local "a in the
Millinery Union, but who at the same
time participated in the attack
against Local 43, and helped in the
campaign to destroy it, of Mary
Goff, and hers.
Other speakers told of the &C.
tivities of Music himself, especially
in the heroic New Bedford strike,
where he spoke on the platform of
the United Textile Workers Union,
which sold out the strikers after a
struggle of over six months. At
that time Music, while grudgingly
admitting that the left wing were
fighters, declared that the U. 7. W.
was "better at making settlements"
That the recent moves of Brook
wood is thoroughly in line with its
original program was pointed out by
another speaker. The attack upon
1t by the A. F. of l.. precipated the
most recent action, it was declared.
Being compelled to take a stand, it
was thus forced to reveal it's true
oolors-an agency fighting the left
wing, the most active and conscious
section of the working class.
Stands Exposed.
The resolution on Brookwood,
after pointing out that Eat no time
In the history of Brookv-oc1 were its
characteristics so clearly defined, its
fundamental reformist nature so out
standing" exposes its pretense of
the so-called factual approach" and
declares that nothing has crystal
lied the false character of Brook
wood progressivism than the con-
troversy with the chiefs of the A.
F. of L."
The resolution quotes Muste's plea
that he is loyal to the A. F. of L.,
and declares that his loyalty is in
deed genuine. cit thus strips Brook
wood of all claims to militancy. In
proving his loyalty, Mr.. Music
points to the records of the grad
yates and chooses Julius HICKMAN,
whose name is anethema to thou
sands of needle trades workers, and
Alfred Hoffman, who only the other
day did his job in Elizabethton,
Tenn. Thus, hatred of the left wing
and betrayal of workers are the
qualifications required in order to
be listed among these loyal sup
porters Of the A. F. of L."
The resolution points out that the
present period is distinguished by
intense capitalist naturalization,
widespread unemployment and a
general downward trend in the con-
ditions Of the workers. 1t tells of
the revolt of various groups of
workers against this, and cites the
New Bedford strike, the shoe work
ers' strikes in New York and Bos-
ton, the strike of the cafeteria work
ers, iron and bronze workers, and
outstanding of all, the struggle of
the textile slaves in the South.
The resolution points out that
practically all Of these struggles
have, and are being led by the left
wing,
To Serve Bosses.
"Muste," the resolution says, "see-
Ing the trend of the times and know
ing to cloak himself with progress
sivs phrases, is stepping in to do his
humble bit and try to divert the
Inilitancy of the workers from chan
nels Of open struggle against the
employers, into that of class COL
liberation. With his active initia-
ton. Music gathered all the birds
Of his feather for a crusade against
the militant trend of the workers"
The resolution then proceeds to
describe the recent conference held
in New York, ''whose chief occupa-
ton was the denunciation of the
Communists and the left wing" Not
one word, said the resolution, was
said Of the various betrayals of the
A. F. of L. bureaucracy in recent
labor struggles.
No sooner was the conference
ended, it says, than they ousted Cal
houn from the faculty as further
step to prove Muste's loyalty to the
A. F. of L.
Will Expose Workers Enemies.