The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31

in the fore front In all struggles
for conditions and for rank and file
control.
Put them all together, these So
cialist nisleaders, these expelled
members of the Communist Party,
these renegades of the revolutionary
trade union movement, and they are
but a hand full, always working be-
hind the scene under cover, try
ing now to work for the A. F. Of L.,
the Boot g. Shoe and against the
tried and trusted leadership of our
Union who stood the acid test of
leadership during the hardest period
of our union development, the only
leadership of any Of the unions at
the Boston convention that fought
and fought hard to bring about real
rank and file amalgamation and to
defeat renegadism and the A. F. of
L. officialdom.
Those Of our leaders who are mem
bers of the Communist Party have
never hidden the fact. They are
proud of their right to belong to the
only party that speaks and fights for
the working class, the Communist
Party This is their right and their
privilege as it is the right and priv
ilege of any member of our union to
belong to any political organization
that he or she chooses.
Communists Lead Struggles
It is exactly the Communist leader
ship that leads in the struggles of the
workers. Everybody knows where they
stand. They do not hide behind
phrases or work under cover. They
stand out in the open, speaking and
fighting clearly and fearleSsly for the
workers.
Under the auspices of the Coor-
dinating Committee of the United
Shoe and Leather Workers Union, a
mass meeting will be held next
Thursday, Feb LIST at Arcadia Hall,
of all members of the former Shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial
Union, with its 5000 membership and
the four other small units OF the Ma
tional, the Protective, the Brother
hood and the Metropolitan, who to-
gether number about 300 members.
This meeting is to consolidate all of
these organizations into one body.
Why this was done immediately
after the Boston Convention can only
be explained by a wish on the part
OF the small groups to delay and
weaken the New York organization.
No sane worker will accept the pro-
posal made by some of the schemers
already mentioned, namely that the
5000 membership union should turn
over its organization to committee
composed Of these schemers who,
after all is said and done, don't even
represent the entire 800 members
they claim, but only a fraction of
them.
They propose that Bidenkapp,
Magliacano, Rosenberg and all the
other union officials should resign
and they, a self-selected committee,
who in June 1888 fought against
united front, who refused to enter in
to the general strike, who permitted a
Zimmerman, Bixby and a De Lib
erty to actually send workers into the
Cuosins shop to scab while 10000
workers were on strike in 125 shops
throughout the city, take over the
new union and hand it over to Bill
Green of the A. F. of L. That's what
their proposal amounts to.
We hope every member will be
there on Thursday, and work hard
and honestly for the unity of the
rank and f1le-there is room for only
one union in New York. The rank
and file will decide who shall be who,
and what shall be what. And I am
quite certain it won't be Zimmerman.
Bixby or DeLiberty.