The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-21
WEINSTOCk, 5
OTHER PAINTERS
ARE SUSPENDED
Council Burocrats Act
Under Orders of
Green
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committee referred to the detailed
question of WeinstOcS by Senator
Black in regard to his union mem
bership and activities, and predicted
that this was a prelude TO AN ef ort
to an attack upon him and the Rank
and File movement for unemploy-
ment insurance, inner Union demo-
crazy, for the reduction of high Off
cial salaries, which has enlisted the
support of more than 1000 A. F. of L.
local unions.
Violate Union Rules
Violating all constitutional proyi-
sions the nine delegates we're Sus-
pended from the District Council
pending hearing Of the charges. Dur
ing the discussion. which was fea-
tured by the use of the most vile and
abusive language by certain officials,
it became clear that the exposure of
the reactionary and corrupt actions
Of District Council and international
officials of the Brotherhood of Paint
ers in the strike of last fail before
some 500 members at the Mock Trial
held Jan. IA had enraged the bu-
reaucratS.
The Detailed Charges
The charges contain the following
points; practically every one of which
shows the hand of the Executive
Council Of the A. F. Of L., and its
colleagues in the Democrat and Re
publican parties in the campaign to
Dust the militant leaders and destroy
the rank and file movement: They are
[ accused Of slandering President Will
lam Green this applies especially to
Weinstock; they are accused of SLAM
dering Painters Brotherhood officials
by accusing the General Executive
Board Of spending S467 600 for gen
eral organizers in a period when the
union was losing members by the
thousands; another charge of Islander
IS based on the exposure Of a strike
settlement by Vice President Ackerly
which called for three separate scales
I of wages and divided the membership;
still another charge is that OF &C
cusing the Executive Board of trying
to postpone the national convention
because it is afraid of the member
ship
The charge that David Shapiro
secretary of the District Council
signed the strike settlement with
Acksrly, and spent $4,000 for pick
citing the wrong building, is also rated
as SANDER.
! Inspired from Washington
The national character of the drive
against the militant membership anC
unemployment insurance is EN-.
/ phasiZed by the charge that Vein
stock attended the Rank and File
Convention in Cincinnati at the time
I Of the A. F. of L. convention, that D;
represented the Rank and File move.
ment in Washington, and that the
nine members are acting under the
instructions of the Communist Party
to destroy the A. F.. of l..
The Detroit Victory
In Detroit recently somewhat SINH
! lar charges were preferred against
r. M. Kroon of the Painters Union
through the influence of henchmar
Of President Green, Francis Xavier
Martel, president Of the Detroit Fed
Grafton of Labor. The charges were
dismissed by the local union to which
he belongs.
Deny Local Union Rights
In New York the charges are DELHI
erately brought in the District Coun-
Gil where they will be heard by the
Executive Board and thus prevent the
local Unions, which support the Minis
militants, passing upon the charges
according to the constitution and by
laws.
All Local Unions
The Rank and File Committee has
already begun to rally the local unions
throughout the country against this
new attack and states that the VIC
tory in Detroit can be repeated by
mobilization in the local unions and
making clear to the membership that
this is actually an attack on unem-
ployment insurance and the right OF
the rank and file to fight for it.
!