The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29
ILGWU Opposition
Urges Fight against
Green's Terror Rule
Shows Intimidation of
Militants Is Policy
of A. F. L. Chiefs

/ Ol A. t. LIE OIIIClS
NEW YORK The National Com
mittee Of Opposition Groups of the
International Ladies Garm emit
Workers Union yesterday con-
| demned William Green, president
Of the American Federation of La
Dor, and the officials Of their own
organization for the concerted cam
paign Of terror launched against
rank and file expression in the
American Federation Of Labor.
The statement, issued over the
signature of the National Commit
tee of Opposition Groups of the In
ternational Ladies Garment Work
ers Union. follows in full:
William Green, in announcing
an intensified campaign against all
militant rank and filters in the A,
F. of L. shows that the A. F. of L.
| officialdom works hand in hand
with the bosses to suppress the dis
satisfaction among the workers and
their desire for militant action
against the bosses. The official &C
ton by the Executive Council def
initely alignS Green and his hench-
men with the worse enemies of the
working class in this country, such
as the Ku KluX Khan, American
Legion, etc. Green and his cohorts
must be condemned by every honest
worker.
IL.G,W.U. Officials TerrOrize
Rank and File
THE I. L. G. w. U. officials, from
Dubinsky down, are proving to be
worthy pupils of William Green, in
terrorizing the rank and file in the
I. L. G. w. U. In every local union
a brutal terror campaign is waged
against any one who has the cour-
age to demand from the officials to
stop acting as agents of the bosses
by refusing to defend the workers
interests. In this terror campaign
the entire offiicaldom is united, the
well-known old time reactionaries
like Dubinsky, HICKMAN and An
tonini and those who use demagogic
phrases like Zimmerman and his
type. The methods employed follow
closely the advice of Green. 1t in
cludes fines, physical terror, expul-
sions and police assistance. Work
ers who have been members Of the
union for many years and well
known fighters against the bosses
are Slugged and prevented from
coming to union meetings. At the
grievance boards they are refused
proper defense and denied every
other democratic right guaranteed
by the constitution Of our union.
Terror Helps Bosses Put Through
Wage Cuts
The main reasons for the terror
are clear. On the one hand, the
bosses are on rampage to force
down the conditions in the shops.
In this drive they have the support
of the governmental code machinery
and the union officialdom, who owe
their jobs to the support they get
from the bosses. On the other
hand, the workers are fighting des-
perately to defend their conditions.
The officials turn to terror as a
possible means through which they
can hold on a while longer to the
union apparatus and at the same
time keep the workers from resist
ing the bosses program.
Terror Must Be Defeated
THE National Committee of the
Rank and File OpptAsitions calls
upon the members of the I. L. G..
w. U, to defeat the terror in our
union and join with the rank and
filters of other A. F. of L. unions
to defeat Green's terror campaign.
The rank and file movement in the
I. l.. G. w. U. has grown strong
and has a following of thousands
OF workers in the union. The rank
and file movement which stands
for clean and militant unionism
against union racketeering, graft
and peace policy with the bosses
will continue fighting in defense OF
the membership as a whole. Nc
terror will prevent the Rank ano
File Oppositions from exposing the
betrayals of the officialdom. Union
leaders who terrorize the best mem
bers, who play politics with the
bosses and stand for deportation OF
militant workers, are misleaders ano
must be driven from our ranks as
our enemies.
Members of the /. L. GNU!
Stand behind the rank and file
movement! Defeat the bosses
wage cutting program!
Defeat our enemies inside our
unioni"