The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-13
DIN STREET MEETINGS JUNE 1920 BACKING THE BONUS FIGHT
Carpenters! Beware of the
Fine Phrases of Misleaders1
Square Deal" Group Touches on None of Most
Important Issues Left Wing Faces Issues

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average earnings of the carpenters,
the stats of paid officials to be cuA
down to the minimum and theft
services to be performed by rank
and file committees on the Jobs and
in the union Offices
6. Union agreements to be subject
to the approval of the membership
/ by a referendum vote.
| 7. The right of the union mem.I
bership to recall their union officials
by a majority vote before the expir
alton Of their terms when they dol
not fulfill their service to the menu
berShip and do not fight for the
program on which they were elected.l
8. For Unemployment, Full Social
Insurance and Relief at the expense
Of the government and the bosses.
2. For militant Union controlled
by the rank and file.
10, For the reducing Of the dues
and the initiation fees
Not one of these 10 points of curl
Left Wing program is included mi
the program Of those who call them !
selves the Carpenters Square Deal
Group Nor do they bring forward
any demands which will bring about
better conditions for the carpenters.
Only two points are similar to our
program: ID Job and shop commits
tees, and 90 no discrimination
against Negroes eve formulated it 4
No race discrimination and JIM
CrowismSD
We Want Real Insurance
Instead of full Unemployment In
surance and relief at the expense of
the government and the bosses they
want the kind of federal relief that
the Greens and VOLS in the A. FL
of L. advocate which will not protect
the unemployed While we are forI
an industrial union based on class
struggle as against class collaboration
and control by the rank and file
they simply speak of IAN industrial
union" which may mean more CEN
tralization of the present misleader-
ship.
But program on paper is mean
lngless if you do not fight for it. And
we may justly ask this square deaI'
people: Who are you and howe Are
you an organization? Did you build
opposition groups? No! You haven't
done anything of the kind. This was
done by the left wing Trade Union
Unity League opposition.
Back of the so-ealled Square Dear
it is easy here 10 recognize the Lam
guage of the Musteite "Progressiyes."
We hear that in some Carpenters Lo-
cal Unions these Musteites, Loreites,
and Lovestoneites are having joint
meetings.
Well, We may take all this grouping
at their face value and ask them
where were they this year and years
past? When the left wing in Local
2os0 forced them to adopt the left
wing program; they left it to the left
wing members to bring the program
from local union to local union.
They left it to the left wingers Of
Local 2717 to start a movement for
unemployment insurance and relief,
while they pretended a sort of SYM
pathetic neutrality. Do they mean to
carry on a fight? No! Their chief
purpose is to throw confusion into our
ranks and divide US; to paralyze our
activity and prevent us from carrying
our program into life thus aiding the
officials of the District Council.
They want to confuse us Just as
they did with their emergency COM
mittee when they told us that we can
force the present district council to
act knowing well that this District
Council is neither willing nor capable
of acting.
We are ready to unite with every
honest rank and file carpenter who
is willing to accept a program of
struggle to fight the attack of the
bosses, TO fight labor takers and mis-
leaders and to fight all the enemies
of the working class. But the cara
penters are to be warned against mis-
leaders with fine phrases.
The left wing opposition has shaped
the program which is in the interest
of the rank and file and Is ready to
fight for IL.
Brothers, nominate and elect. ycrs
local union officials from thcsesv eac
support the left wing program. ssp-
port the rank and file slate.