The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
Win Right of 1000
Expelled Painters
To Re-enter A.F.L
Action of Rank, File
Forces Bureaucrats
To Readmit Men
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conditions and developing struggles
on the jobs.
In connection with the C.W.A.
jobs, the Painters, Paper Hangers
and Decorators Union demanded
the same wages as for the members
of the A. F. of l.. and sent delega-
Sions to the C.W.A. headquarters
The rank and file opposition inside
the locals of the painters union of
the A. F. of L. demanded rein
statement
This struggle reached a point
where the union burocrats were
forced to yield to the mass pressure
of the rank and file members in
the Painters Union, and above all,
because Of the militant activity on
the part of the expelled and sus-
pended members of the Painters
Union of the A. F. of L., after
they had organized themselves into
an organization and recruited near
~ 1000 members.
Today an agreement has been
reached between the representa-
tives of the District Council No. Ia
of the Brotherhood of Painters,
Paper Hangers and Decorators OF
America, affiliated to the A. F. of
L. and the District Council of the
Painters, Paper Hangers and Deco
rators Union of expelled members
from the A. F. of /.
The agreement provides that
every member of the newly organ
ICED union is to be readmitted to
the A. F. of L. union without any
discrimination, on the basis of pay
ing $40 initiation fee, instead of
800, which is the regular initiation
fee, to the union. That the $40
initiation fee be paid after the
member gets a job and receives his
first pay. That the dues shall be
paid only after the third pay re-
ceived by the worker. That is, no
dues to be paid until the time the
worker receives job. That mem
bers be admitted to every and all
locals of their own choosing of the
painters union in Chicago. That 80
days be allowed for the time to fill
out applications for the admission
Of the expelled, suspended and un-
organized painters. That every
member of the union of the ex-
PEELED, suspended and unorganized
painters is eligible to the same pay
ON the job, even before he is ad-
mitted into the A. F. of L. union,
and finally, they reached an agree
nsnt which provides that the COM
pended members of the union shall
function to protect the interests of
the expelled and suspended mem
bers until the time that all mem
bers shall become members of the
Brotherhood of Painters, Paper
Hangers and Decorators of Aver
lea, District Council No. ID.
Outstanding Victory
This is one of the outstanding
victories of the rank and file OPP
position movement inside the build
ing trades in the city of Chicago.
1t shows very definitely what mass
organization of the workers can do.
Many of the workers who, after
they have been expelled or sus-
pended from the union of the A.
r. of L., did not join the union
organized by the expelled members,
were forced to pay 500 initiation
fee so that they would be able to
maintain their jobs on the C.W.A.
But those who are members of the
union of the expelled members are
going to pay only $40. And more
than that, their interests have been
protected on the job and in the
union of the A. F. of L.
After this victory it is necessary
to undertake struggle against the
exceptionally high dues in the union.
The present dues payments run
from $11 to $24 for three months.
Such dues keep unorganized work
ers from being members of the
union. The task of the opposition
ia to develop struggle for reduc-
tion in dues, for democracy in the
union, and above all, to develop
struggles for the interests of the
employed and unemployed painters
and this is the next step that faces
tie rank and file opposition.