The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
LOCAL "a MEETING
ORGY FOR FAKERS
But Mass Resentment
Shows Against Clique

NEW YORK.-A meeting of mill
linerTy workers of Spectors' local "a
was held uesday at Bryant Hall.
This meeting was continuation Of
the meeting of Nov. 6. The order of
business was the report for eight
months activity with the collective
agreement as the main point of in
terest to the workers.
The major portion of the time Of
the two meetings has not been uti-
lized to expose the maneuvers of Ia
risky and the rest of the officials of
locals "a and a who try to force the
collective agreement against the will
of the workers. The Communists and
the representatives of the United
Front Rank and File Committee we're
not given the floor. This was done
consciously, in order not to have real
exposure of the methods of the SELL
out and real proposals of what the
nilliners must do to defeat the bosses
and their union agents.
Lovestonites Attack Communists
But the floor was certainly granted
to the Lovestonites, zukowsky and
Rosen, who speaking against the COL
lective agreement, not only did not
tell the workers how to defeat it, but
utilized the opportunity to win favor
with the administration by attacking
the Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union and the Communists, t-.us de-
claring themselves ready to be en-
braced in the folds of local "a and
to become, with Mustees aid a part
of the administration.
Most Of the time of the two meet
ings was spent in discoveries and
revelations" made by the new mes
siahs of the millinery workers, Mr..
Lederfarb and Mr.. Maliniac (former-
ly chairman and secretary of the ex-
ecutive board and ousted about a
year ago., and the answers by the
administration.
These two martyrs, who for years
have been a notorious part of the
administration now till about graft,
corruption and swindle in the union.
They pointed out the Fascist regime
in the union. They proved that the
executive board consists of scabs and
persons who use their positions for
their own purposes. They told how
the officers permit their own clique
to work piece-work, overtime for time
and quarter, on Sunday, ETC.; how
executive members would not go to
work the following day after meetings
and be paid by the union for first
time; how in the struggle against the
former local 43 of the trimmers, they
had the police on the payroll. They
made many more discoveries which
are not now, having already been
brought to light by the lefts at the
time Lederfarbs and Maliniacs were
still part of the organized fascism,
graft and corruption of this union
Yet they did make one new dis
covery. Dederfarb openly stated "that
members of the "Vancsord organiza-
ton committee of the local have keys
to the union headquarters and do
their things which are too vulgar to
be mentioned" ASK Mr.. FRESHMAN,
he said, "the man who sweeps the
floors and he will tell you the things
he finds in the rooms" The conclu-
sion is reached that the union is
turned into a brothel by this clique
OF course, the administration did
not keep quiet. They put up I. H
Goldberg, paid officers and their
best speaker to make the job. But
even he could not drown in the sea
of his demogogy the accusations
made, though he urged that the mil
linery workers should depend on tho
devotion" of the officers to their in
terests.