The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-17
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A. F. L. and the Lovestoneite mis-
leaders in their union, the striking
furniture workers in the Itzeik shop
Newport and Watkins Ave, Brook
Ign, have placed themselves under
the leadership of the Trade Union
Unity League and are fighting on
to win. There is a call out for q
mass picket line Monday morning in
front of the shop, which all the
strikers and all class conscious
workers should respond to.
This strike has been going on for
seven weeks, under the leadership
of the Frame Makers Local 1857
of the United Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners of America Ca
F.L)
During this time the ALL. off,
Gals, and Perlow, the Lovestonitc
president of the local, have prevent.
ed the strikers from joining the
T.U.U.L. and misled them into con-
demning as "strike breaking an
article recently published in the
Daily Worker, exposing Perlow's
trickery.
The T.U.U.L. called a meeting OF
these strikers at which H. SAFER
representative of the Metropolitan
Area T.U.U.L. spoke, and after
some more comforting of committees
the T.U.U.L. committee appeared
by invitation, at the strikers meet
ing yesterday at Colombia Hall.
AS soon as the meeting opened
Shutings, the very portly AL
business agent of the local demand
ed the T.U.U.L. committee leave the
room. The frame makers rejected
this demand and then Shutings de-
clared he would settle the strike,
on the conditions he had proposed
the day before, and send IS more
scabs to the shops, in addition to
those already there, under his pro-
lection. He then ordered all present
to follow him, and stalked from the
room. None followed him.
Workers Control.
SAFER, of the T.U.U.L. committee,
and L. Harper, its section repre-
sentative explained the purposes and
aims of the T.U.U.L., and exposed
the ALL. misleadership, which has
left tens of thousands of furniture
workers unorganized and betrayed
many strikes. He called on the work
ers not to rely on any individual
but through shop committees to take
control of the union and of their
own struggle and to have their ow.
union.
Discussion followed, and the work
ers exposed the role of Perlow, the
Lovestoneite, who, under instruc-
tons from the Lovestone renegades
had instigated the adoption Of a
resolution recently condemning an
article in the Daily Worker simply
because it criticised him for coopera-
ton with the A.F.L. officials. Per
low then admitted his error and de-
clared himself ready to follow the
T.U.U.L. program.
The workers openly expressed
themselves in favor of the T.U.U.L.
but pointed out that it should have
been invited four or five weeks ago
but was prevented by misleaders and
misstatements about the T.U.UL.
and the LID.
Tally Al! Support
The meeting decided to continue
the strike under the leadership of
the T.U.U.L. and rank and file
strike committee of frame makers
and carvers was elected to meet
with the committee of the T.U.U.L
and start modelling the militant
working class organizations in sup
port of the struggle.
They voted to send committees to
the LID. and the Workers Interna-
tional Relief for defense and a re-
lief kitchen for the strikers.
They decided to call a conference
of all workers organizations in order
to support the strike. And there
will be mass picket line Monday
morning; all militants to be in front
of the shop, Newport and Watkins