The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
FOOD WORKERS IN
ANAL GAMATED IN
ELECTION TODAY
T.U,E.L. Exposes Role
of Burkhardt Gang
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hardt machine in control of the
Amalgamated Food Workers of
America has similarly been unable
to take any steps for the organiza-
ton of the unorganized and has fol-
lowed narrow, bureaucratic policy
which has lead to cut-throat compe-
tition among the food workers (par-
ticularly the bakers) and has helped
to create a situation of chaos among
the small section of the organized
food workers.
The Burkhardt Bureaucracy.
"The Burkhardt machine has
played around with the phrase of
unity only on the eve of elections,
or in meaningless New Year greet
ings to the members. Burkhardt
has failed to utilize the favorable
conditions to bring into the union
the detached workers of the A. F.
of L., who are looking for connec-
tons with progressive union in
the food industry. More antagon-
ism between the food workers exists
today than ever before due to the
bureaucratic handling of problems.
The present leadership is incapable
of building up powerful organ
ization of food workers.
"The empty phraseology of the
Burkhardt machine must be UNI
masked, as in essence it is a policy
against the workers interests and
as bureaucracy Of a similar stamp
as is the A. F. of L.
LOre's Tail-End.
Ludwig Lore attacks the new
militant unions, in the mining, tex
tile and needle industries. Lore is
defending the betrayals of the
Lewises, McMahons and the Sig
mans in the labor movement. Burk-
hardt, the tail end of Lore, will fol-
low in his footsteps. The class col
liberation and injunction policy of
Burkhardt are the outstanding signs
on the road taken by Burkhardt
which leads to the destruction of
the unions.
Locals / and 1854.
Local l is deteriorating because
the bread factories are taking the
shops away. The administration
was not able to put up a real fight
against the big trusts because it
is distrusted by the rank and file
and because it is unable and does
not know how to put up a real
fight against the big trusts.
"The conditions of the workers in
Local 1874 are going down. While
the members and the officials of
this local have been fighting for
policy which would lead to an i'm
provement in their conditions, the
general policy of the administration
of the Amalgamated has been such
as to make the conditions of Local
164 worse.
"The Hotel Workers Branch has
against the old, lifeless machine of
the present administration. 1
What are the methods Burkhardt
proposes to figh: the bosses? None.
He wants rather to fight Obermeier.'
He denies that there is Burkhardt !
machine in the ranks of the A. F.
W. "If there were a Burkhardt ma
chine in the A. F. w." he states,
"such disrupting tactics which have
been fostered on the A. F. W. would
sooon be eliminated one way or an
ether"
Thus Burkhardt uses the threats
Of the Greenes, the Lewises and the
VOLS. They also believe in expell-
ing from the union the "disrupting"
elements. But the militant workers
are convinced that such leaders"
far from building UP an organiza-
tion that will serve the workers in
their struggles, are only the agents
of the bosses, whose ends they
serve. So