The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
LOVestOneites
Elected From
C.W.A. Union
Disrupters Att empted
To Stop Unity With
Other CWA Groups

P DoVeSUOnelUe renegaQeS III the AS
ISOLATED Office and professional
Emergency Employees, have been
ousted by the membership from
their positions of leadership in that
organization.
On Sunday, March II, Miriam
Silvis, in the name of the small ex-
ecutive committee Of eleven Of the
Association, called by mail dele
gated meeting Of the large executive
committee which has been elected
by the workers on the jobs. When
the delegates reported at 80 E. 22nd
st. to the hall at which the meeting
was to have been held, they found
that Silvis and her few renegade
associates had notified the owners
of the hall that no meeting would
be held there. The hall was locked.
The delegates then went to the hall
of the Unemployed Artists at IL W.
18th ST., opened the meeting with
81 delegates present, and proceeded
with the order of business.
Climax of Descriptive Activities
This action on the part Of the
small group of LoveStoneite ele-
ments in the Association was by
no means an isolated venture. At
previous meetings the Lovestoneites
had attempted to prevent the
achievement of united action by
the membership with other C.W.A.
workers. In meetings with the heaoS
of the eva, Silvis had repeatedly
elaborated with these C.W.A. OFF,
Gals in order to head off the pro-
tests and grievances which the
members directed at the C.WA.
At a meeting of the executive
council of the A.OP.EE. about a
month ago, Silvis, with the aid of
her clique, packed the meeting with
fraudulent delegates bearing the
stamp of Lovestone, Trotsky, and
Socialist leaders, and foisted upon
the membership of the A.OP.E.E.,
a so-called top committee of
eleven" In order to avoid exposure,
these fake delegates later resigned.
The top committee Of eleven, over
whelmingly composed Of renegades
from Communism, remained. Al
though subject to the orders Of the
large executive committee, and fur
Their subject to ratification by the
membership, this committee of
bureaucratic manner, and failed to
eleven proceeded to function in a
consult either the large committee
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Lower Committee Acts
Meanwhile events of tremendous
Importance faced the membership.
Wholesale firings of C.WA. workers
were being prepared; the infamous
"paupers' oath" QUESTIONABLE was
thrust upon the CW.A. workers
with the demand that it be i'm
mediately answered and returned
to the C.WA Instead of arousing
the membership to action, Silvis
and her clique met with the eva
officials, held private conversations
with De Lamater asking the C.WA.
officials not to meet with any dele
gates from the A.O.P.E.E., elected
by their projects.
The large committee, composed of
about IS elected delegated members,
met on March 8, at 232 Seventh
Ave, where they found Silvis and
several other members of the top
committee, and demanded that
meeting of the entire executive be
called at once. This Silvis refused
to do, stalking out of the meeting.
However, several of the small COM
mittee stayed for the meeting of
the large committee members. Since
a quorum of the large committee
was present, this meeting called a
meeting of the entire executive for
ratification of the decisions put be-
fore it.
DepOse Committee of Eleven
On March 7, forty delegates turn
ed out for the meeting. A letter
from Silvis was read which stated
that in her opinion this present
meeting was illegal, and calling for
a meeting of the large committee
to be held at 80 E. 22nd ST., March
IL, at 7:30 pm. However, since most
of the delegates we're present, the
meeting proceeded with immediate
business. 1t deposed the entire COM
mittee of eleven, by unanimous
vote, the committee never having
been ratified by the membership,
and elected an activizing committee
which promptly took steps against
the f1rings of C.W.A. workers
scheduled for the coming week. 1t
appointed a committee of five to
function until the adoption of a
constitution.
Since It's inception, this committee
has modified the membership for
a demonstration on ten hours notice
and has further activized the mem
bership on the projects, urging
them to deluge Roosevelt, Hopkins,
Daniels, DeLamater and C.W.A. with
resolutions, protests and delega-
tons protesting lay-offs and the
"paupers' oath" QUESTIONABLE.
Death Blow to Lovestoneites
On March IL, the membership of |
the A.O.P.E.E. came to the hall at |
80 E. 22nd ST., at which meeting, |
called by Silvis. was to have been
held, only to find that Silvis and
her small group had privately met
at the home of one of the Love-
stoneite members, refusing to face
the membership. Fifty-four of the
IS job delegates in the association
met at IL w. 18th st. Steps are
being taken by the members to eff
feet united front with all C.W.A.
workers organizations in the strug-
gle for the continuance and en-
largement of C.WA. and to stop all
firings and re-instate those already
fired from C.W.A.
At the meeting on March II, two