The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
S. p. Leaders
Bar Militants
From Farley
Refuse To Unite With
Communists Against
War and Fascism
BY HAROLD ]. ASHE
Communist Candidate for
Secretary of State)

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 23.-
High handed rulings and bureau
cratic conduct characterized the re-
cent conference against war and
fascism here dominated by the Of
ficialdom of the Central Labor
Council.
The chairman of the conference
ruled all discussion of the compo-
sition of the conference off the floor
in an effort to bar delegates from
the Communist Party, the Young
Communist League, the Icor, the
international Labor Defense and
the American League Against War
and Fascism, on the grounds that
they had not received official in
vitations.
The chairman explsied quite
badly that the delegates were ex-
pected to confine their activities to
the distribution OF handbills, the
selling of tickets and such other
tasks as might be assigned to them.
william w. Busick, Socialist or
ganizer of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union, who was
secretary of the conference, ex-
planned that the Central Labor
Council Executive Committee had
passed on the list of delegates and
that the conference had no author
ity to enlarge itself.
Denied Delegates Seats
The chairman parroted this ex-
PLANTATION. Busick then started max
ing a report on plans for the mass
meeting, and the chairman stead
tasty ignored the motion to seat
the unlimited delegates.
Participating organizations, be-
sides A. F. of L. unions, included
the Socialist Party, Young Peoples
Socialist League and the Workmen's
Circle. Among the speakers for the
mass meeting planned are VIM.
Green, president of the American !
Federation of Labor. Buzzell, head |
of the Central Labor Council is
scheduled to be chairman of the
mass meeting. Both Green and
Buzzell have been attacked repeat
edly by Busick in Socialist meet
ings, but now Busick is their
staunchest supporter.
Upton Sinclair was invited as a
speaker, but declined. Evidently the
Socialist Party seeks united front
with the Epic movement, for a. ma
jority of seated delegates are men,
bers of the S. P, whether they
represent the S. P. at the conference
or not.
Demand to Hear Gallagher
When a motion was made to in
vite Leo Gallagher, militant labor
attorney to speak, the chairman
tried to ignore the motion. A storm
of protest broke, however, and in
stating the motion he re-worded it
so that the delegate body merely
recommended that the speakers
committee consider him as a speak
err. This motion lost by vote of
Is to 10. A motion to invite Harry
oIIQSeS, IedQSI Vi IIlc lOlSSIlOT6-
mems strike and now head of the
International Longshoremens Asso-
citation, was never put to vote,
Busick's explanation being that
there were many other labor lead
ers that might have been invited
The majority of the delegate body
of the conference was hand-picked
and was composed of trusted"
functionaries of the S. P, the Work
mems Circle, the International La
dies Garment Workers Union. Young
Peoples Socialist League and Anal
gamated. They, with hardly an ex-
ception. are known for their anti
Communist and anti-militant stand
on numerous questions that have
arisen in Los Angeles labor and
radical circles in the past year,
Clearly, from the opposition to
seating any of the unlimited dele
gates or of even seriously consider
ing any other speakers than those
selected by the Central Labor Coun-
Gil Executive Committee, the So
cialist-led united front" against
fascism has as it's first objective
the ignoring of all militant groups
that have steadfastly been fighting
fascism.