The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-13
union
OFFICIALS RUN
men OFF JOBS
Issue Leaflet on Case
of Suspended Local


charges are especially, Delegates
Cohen and Flattery, and Secretary
Ed Anglin of Local 8.
The bosses, without opposition
from these officials, are trying to
abolish the "day room" a system of
hiring men thru the union office.
Abolition of the "day room" would
mean that bosses hire men on the
open market, picking whom they
please, and starving the rest. This
means a collapse of the union wage
scale of $40 thousand, and prac-
teal non-union condition every
where. Even now, progressives
charge, the little clique of 20 or SO
which runs the local by undemo-
cratic means permits it's following
to work under the scale, and thus
brings pressure on others to do the
same.
The leaflet issued by the Progress
sive Building Trades Group, Lath-
ers Section, on conditions in Local
6, reads in part as follows:
"The suspension of our local was
due to the fact that all moneys de-
rived from dues, assessments, fines,
etc., was spent by our officers trav-
cling from city to city under the
pretext of negotiating for territorial
jurisdiction. No honest worker can
believe this open lie. The real rea-
son for our officers travelling from
city to city was to influence the In
ternational organizers to favor them
against the men, because our Off
GERS know that their corruption,
misuse of funds, violating union
rules, favoritism and many other
crimes against the members, would
result in mass revolt against their
crimes, which would mean that they
would lose their soft jobs.
Secret Accounts.
"No financial statements were
presented to the membership for the
past three years or more. When
ever any honest member demanded
financial statement the meeting
was broken off by supporters of
this corrupt clique.
"Our corporation bosses hire
gangsters and gunner in conniv-
ance with the officials of our local
to keep the members in fear and
subjecting them to the will of the
bosses. This practice results in a
reduction of prices SO low that one
could scarcely make living. Our
good union men who were laid on
the shelf and had no means at all
of earning living, because they
fought for the maintaining of union
rules and standards.
Men Starving.
THE conditions in our trade are
very bad. The delegates absolutely
refuse to do any work along union
lines and defend the members on
the job against the attempt of the
bosses to reduce their standards
and wages.
Instead of carrying on a cam
paign to organize the non-union men
on the jobs our officers are bought
by the bosses to leave the job non
union.
Men are starving while waiting
to be sent off the list and the fav-
orites are given jobs ahead of their
turn in violation and contempt of
all the basic union rules"
Progressive Demands.
Demands put up by the progress
sives are: % meeting of the To-
cal with a full report, (2) right to
elect their own officers, CD repre-
sentation of laymen on district
council, (4) no more unnecessary
delegates appointed by the interna-
tional, 90 election of job stewards
by the men on the jobs, (6) Job
stewards to meet regularly twice a
month and report, (7) stewards to
call regular meetings of the men
on the job, weekly, (8) job stew
ards to get cooperation of officers.