The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-29
Painters! Vote for a Rank
and File leadership!

TOMORROW painters affiliated with the
Painters District Council No. will go
to the polls to vote for secretary-treas-
urer and other officers.
1t is needless to say how important it
is that all members of the Painters Union
participate in these elections. The future
good and welfare Of the union will be decided, TO
a great extent, by the votes OF the painters. The
welfare of the families of the painters their wives
and children depends upon the type of leadership
elected tomorrow.
There are two candidates for the office OF Sec
rotary treasurer: Louis weinstock of Local 499,
endorsed by the Painters Rank and File Protective
Association, who stands for policy of rank and
file control of the union; and Philip zausner, the
present secretary and former boss painter who
hired men below the union scale, leader Of gang
Sters and thugs against rank and file union men.
The policies which Weinstock represents and has
always fought for in the union is based on rank
and file leadership for the union and against the
gangSterism and racketeering which is the keynote
Of the present administration
Under the rule of the zausner regime democrat
ization crept into the union to the extent that
great number Of the members have lost both con-
fIdence and faith in the organization.
The paper agreement provides neither for the
seven-hour day or the SO wage scale. Conditions
on the jobs are 100 per cent worse than ever be-
fore Union men are forced by the zausner ma
chine to work under terrific speed-up in the
so-caled union shops for S. to Sc a day. No pro-
visions have been made for the unemployed. zaus-
ner is interested in thing: to collect dues, and
if the worker, through unemployment cannot pay
dues, he is kicked out of the organization.
OCAL after local has taken the proper steps and
revolted against the corrupt zausner crowd;
great enthusiasm is spreading among the rank and
file for Weinstock and other rank and file can
didates
This revolt was fruitful already in four of the
locals. Locals 84S, 400, 400 and 81 have elected
rank and file candidates to the Council. In each
Of these locals the delegates were previously zaus-
ner men,
The handwriting on the wall shows which way
the wind is blowing. zausner sees that he is rapidly
loosng his grip on the union membership His
defeat in the various locals is signal of the brew
ing storm that will sweep corruption, racketeering
and class collaboration out Of the union
Therefore zausner is taking final desperate
chance to win the elections by hook and crook He
has refused point blank the offer of the Civil Lib
critics Union to act as observers at the polling
places The elections in 1888 were crooked as was
admitted by Eugene Mcnamara, president Of the
District Council and Zausner man in the Su-
preme Court
THE 1888 District Council election was irregu-
lar, unlawful improper and contrary and in viola
ton to the constitution of the Brotherhood of
Painters and the bylaws of District Council No g."
said Mcnamara.
zausner, facing defeat, is reported to be mob-
izing his underworld forces to carry through the
elections on a fraudulent basis
The rank and file, however, can win by massing
at the polls and serving as watchers against the
2ausner tricksters.
For union conditions for rank and file union
leadership, vote for the rank and file candidates
Pull down levers &c, SA and IA IN the polling
booths tomorrow.
Vote for your candidates: Louis Weinstock for
secretary treasurer, Lewis ]. Stevens and Frank
Wedl for business agents.