The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-11
BY HARRIS CLERON

BY HARRIS CLERON
ACCORDING to the press Of No
n vember %, Mr.. F'lore, General
President of the union, said
and the union has 5000 members
in the U. s." General Secretary
Hasketh in the September issue of
the Catering Industry Employee
Convention Proceedings, page 35)
stated, "our membership April 30,
1929, was 39,394, showing a decrease
during the period Of three years of
1889" In the same issue, page 10,
we read, "on information received
from the office of the secretary
treasurer of the International
Union, June, 1882, that our mem
bership at that time was 25,863
and the membership Of the Inter
national Union was represented by
accredited delegates at this con-
vention is 1902. -" 1t shows a
continuous decrease Of the men,
bership. Why then, does Mr.. Flore
exaggerate?
It is in line with the recent con-
vention of the International at
Boston that I'VE must be optimis-
tic" The fact is, he is lying to
cover up the expulsion policies of
the Cincinnati and local gar.5s,
against those who present a mill
tant program against wage cuts,
and against those who cannot pay
the dues, despite the fact that
many Of them carry membership
book for 1920 years.
In the hotel and restaurant in
dustry, where there are over a
million workers, only 1902 were
represented. Has Mr.. F1ore any
excuse for that? Yes, apparently.
In the same issue of the Catering
Industry Employee ("President' 8
Page"), he said, ITO strive for a
higher standard of living with mil
lions of unemployed surrounding us
would be almost hopeless task. "
Mrs. Madge Argo, the Illinois In
ternational organizer, informed us
in the october issue Of the same
journal page y 81 have found
men working for 81 day, seven
days week, sixteen hours a day
at cooking. washing dishes and
porter work" Mr.. Flore blames the
unemployed for not having the in
dustry organized. Mr.. Flore, you are
a liar! The unemployed, in spite
OF your sabotage, are organizing
and are fighting. You are trying
to convince the membership to take
more wage cuts and not to ask for
better conditions.
But it seems, Mr.. Flore has a
program for the unemployed, the
bosses program. In the same issue
he said, I'VE are advocating the
shorter workday and week in order
that there may be employment for
ALL" Mrs. Madge Argo, in the Oc-
tober issue, page seven wrote: 81
found cases where they (the work.
ers) just work for their meals. -
Moreover, the Illinois cook is to
work eight hours day, seven days
a week and his wages will be so
cents a day. The New York cham
bermaid who work for $50 a month,
to be paid SIS month. Is it not
the same program proposed by Mr..
Teagle and is put in practice in the
Manager Hotel now Taft where
Mr.. Flore stays when he comes to
New York? But why does he speak
about organization now? In the
same issue of Catering Industry
Employee, he wrote, workers and
dependents cannot, and will not,
stand idly by and starve while food
and other necessities are in abun-
dance around them. There is limit
to their endurance. Mr.. F1ore
is worrying that the workers in the
hotel and restaurant industry will
organize, and If they organize with
out the Cincinnati gang-McDevitts
Lehmans, etc.,--they will ask for a
higher standard of living to come
out of the bosses profit, and not as
he proposes that the workers must
shoulder the responsibility of un-
employment.
Hotel and restaurant workers
must answer these misleaders and
gangsters through a strong Rank
and File organization. Members OF
the international: it is clear that
these bureaucrats will not resist
the attacks of the bosses; on the
contrary, they will assist them as
they are doing now against the
workers. Organize inside every local
rank and file opposition against
them. Unite with the unorganized
worker, and fight the wage-cut
program of the bosses.