The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-05
From GitlOW to Hillrnan
By FRED ELLIS

Mr. Gitlow in this article entitled, Spring
field and Indianapolis" is actually trying to
convince the coal miners that this was rank
and file convention and states that Spring
field could have been used very effectively to
lay the basis for the actual building of the
National Miners Union" According to Mr..
Gitlow, Howat, Hapgood and this whole tribe
of discredited "progressives" represent the
rank and file of the miners in the United
States. Whenever a miner knows that the
struggle between two sets of takers is strug-
gle between one set of coal operators against
the other, and thus Gitlow becomes the de-
fender of the Peabody Coal interests in Hi
nois against the rank and file miners. The
logical conclusion of Mr.. Gitlow's policy was
shown more clearly in his vote against loan
to the National Miners Union and also in the
Lovestone promises to Hapgood to deliver the
anthracite miners to the new Howat-Fishwick
union through his group in the anthracite
The most interesting quotation, however, by
Mr.. Gitlow in this article is when he states,
1.-THE Hman officialdom is supporting the
Springfield Convention The future is there
fore full of many important possibilities as
a result of the Springfield Convention Per-
to lead the movement against the American
Federation of Labor in the United States. Mr..
Hilman, the chief proponent of class collab-
Grafton in the United States in the needle
trades has all Of sudden become a very i'm
portant figure, and according to Gitlow, Hill
man is supposed to fight Beckerman, the right
wing of the socialist party, at the next con-
vention of the Amagamated. Mr.. Gitlow thinks
that new trade union center of miners, rail-
ROAD workers and the Amagamated Clothing
Working is going to develop under the leader
ship of weeping Walker. former president of
the Illinois State Federation of Labor Hlman
of the Amalgamated and the reactonary lead
ers of the railroad brotherhood and states:
"lf the new organization will not be recOg-
nized then there is possibility that it will fol-
low the course that was taken by the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers. This will make
possible the creation of new trade union GEN.
ter of the miners. railroad brotherhoods and
the Amalgamated." Yes it will make possible
stepping stone for Mr.. Gitlow to become
new organizer for Mr.. Hillman in the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers. But the rank and
file miners, the unorganized railroad work
ers who are Shaving on the tracks of American
railroads for as low as II cents an hour and
the needle trades workers who have been
slugged and beaten up by the Amalgamated
takers in collision with the New York police
the miners who have felt the united front be-
tween John H. Walker, Fishwick and Far
rington the police and soldiers in the last Hi
nos strike will give the effective answer to
these takers and to Mr.. Gitow, who is trying
to fool them back into following the U.M.W.A
dscre lifted outfit The rank and file of the
miners, railroad workers. steel workers, mar
inc transport workers. needle trades workers
have forgotten about Mr. Gitlow and Co. and
under the leadership of the revolutionary
unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity
League are building new revolutionary unions
who will answer all of these takers and for
ever eliminate them from the organized labor
movement in the United States.
We wish Mr.. Gitow good speed in his rapid
travelling into the arms of Hillman G. Co.
when the rank AMI file of the Amalgamated
are beginning to rally under the leadership of
the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union
Perhaps Mr. Gitlow may become the impair
tial chairman between the Amagamatcl and
the Losses in the mems clothing industry.