The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-30
PARTY LIFE
THE LOVEsTONEITEs IN ACTION.
BY CYRIL BRIGGS.

doubt that the renegad wagng against the
Communist duty working in and helping to build
the organizations Were they active in these organizations they
capitalist
cratic scheme Quidate working class mtancy disrupt the
fighting organizations of the proetariat.
Certainly those comrades who active in the oganza
on have decisions about the eacerOus role of the Loeonees
the working class who have increasingly themselves
bse ne ogn 98 Oh the worst petty bourgeois '1e elements
The activities of the particularly pernicious
the Harlem this organization
of comrades has welded together in iron solidarity
of Negro and white working class tenants and have these
militant struggle against
and explorers the rengades busy for weeks
disrupt the organization defeat militant program.
attempt they ally
elements in the League They have become the bedow of
the petty bourgeois ce who have sought to use the League for
the advancement of their
FORE dertng from its militant reformist futile
etnoos Oh lew months ago ey We're atIcng tnese ele-
sharply anybody else but complete their
snr Ann Tbonnsor S9rob C IN onon alaco 9Th +ba ot+
bourgeois split League betray
hardpessed tenants of Harlem into the of the landlords And
with them allied the creature of the seconfessed Jackson
Failing their effort disrupt destroy the League the
inside the and their ca allies decided they could
effectively the landlords demorazng
by organizing ump league whereby
the leadership the would they landlords
would desire their victims to leadership in the interests
of the landlords And make that they spread confusion and
agents the landlords elected call their league the Harlem Tenants
League elected to steal from the six hundred and members of
have used the first day of their organization! And these
renegade plan to call in the capitalist state to assist them the steal
the their intention the
incorporated that the militant working class tenants who have all
along followed the example of most labor unions and other working
organizations refusing their heads into the of
landlord and employer regulation and control through the machinery of
the state be robbed of the which has become synonym for
militant struggle against the landlords In this the dsupn
seek to smash the and shield which the oppressed tenants of
landlords
plans spread among
ants they have issued calls for meetings. in the the Harlem
Tenants League and signing themselves members of the Executive
Board They have posscpted their letters Mote New Address
spite the that the regular Harlem Tenants League
meeting Monday night at the address fOrmerth
I1c Tihrarv WeSt12 Street
fight League wlfully prptated
secret guidance Anna Thompson the fake issue Of the barring
presented
s the delegates from the League The conference in qe
accepted the credentials Of the other delegates from the League
question of Welsh there unanimous not
him. The delegates of them nonPary delegates voted
the basis of their knowledge Of Welsh disrupve force in
the League clearly pointed by president by
speakers while right
M Rn the renegad ID not want ordinations Thew wanted
had been holding with the bourgeois ee
in the democratic and republican politicians landlords
Spies considered their forces enough start struggle
leadership Their bourgeois allies had long
objected to the militant leadership The first step of the
gades and their allies to center attack the leadership their
next step effort to aogae all power Of decision and action
the Executive Board which they then had majority In their
effort peuate their hold on the Executive Board ana deprive the
general membership Of in the matter or OF word in the
of the organization they brought IN the following ro
bat any problem confronting the League that requires debe
political organizaona otherwise should first be referred to
/, Executive Committee for action"
buttons They discovered however, that the tenants of Harlem
dumb they thought And the meantime the Com
Reorganization Committees which had been appointed
before the fight began brought its recommendations for the
Committee These recommendations
cepe overwhelming the membership spite of the hyer
abuse of the president of the League by Campbell and the
cped attacks by Welsh and others motion to adopt the report of
Reorganization carried Al Previous
this by Welsh the of the old Executive Com
first business crushngy defeated 81 to
motion add Welsh the reorganzed
defeated by 43 a. These four
highest the duptionists throughout the
directly after this of 43 to adopt unchanged the
the Executive Committee showed change
the meantime demonstrating that
of the fourteen who had voted with the suponss the
motion soarzed with them The recommendations
reorganization of the Housing Committee next taken and
YEA with weak NOES audible thru
This much least of the petty bourgeois
allies of the renegade and this point Jenkins ypi
selfeeng opporun his head and aked of the meet
after expressing his opinion that the tenants were bunch of
goas worth bohng WITH This jenkins
of the leaders in the opposition league
The example of jenkins followed by the rest of his few
weeks later Evidently Campbell who refused participate in ten
ants street meetings "because it would jeopardze her job"
Welsh whose activity the League begun and ended with the
attempt League from the nd Nemser and Thompson
first appearance the ynchonzed with the offensive
the leadership these together with Battle Hendckson Hen
other opposed militant
evidently all of these with Jackson that work.
who for militant struggle against the