Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-12
Dallas Demands A.F.L.
Support General Strike
Flour, Cereal UniOnist
Introduces Militant
Resolutions
BY Voice of Action
Special Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9.-The
highlight of today's American
Federation of Labor convention
session came when after all the
big shots, the ten and twenty
Observation-Disclosures men had
spoken their pieces.
A delegate who declared him.
self from a rank and file union
took the floor. He electrified
the convention by exposing the
whole rotten gangster fight be-
tween the teamsters and the
brewers in Seattle, openly
charging Dave Beck, Northwest
teamster boss with the response
bility for the same.
He declared that the rank and
file of both unions were sick and
tired of the mess and ended his
vigorous attack with an appeal
for a return to the principles OF
trade union democracy, as the
only permanent cure.
Delegate James p. Dallas OF
Federal Union No. 1859 of flour
and cereal workers, Seattle, did
this splendid work.
Citrine Shadow-Boxes
The morning session was de
voted to blather, the afternoon to
battle. In the morning session
Walter NJ. Citrine, fraternal dele
gate from the British Trade
Union Congress, spoke on Ease
ism and Communism. Unwit
tingly he exposed the utter i'm
potency of the social democrats
to deal with problem of fascism
while attacking the communist
for their lack of the same dem
ocratic impOtency. He showed
clearly enough to the thinking
person that democratic OppOsi
ton to fascism is futile ant
dangerous, and that only the
most direct militancy is effective
against them.
Brewers Fight
In the afternoon session the
red hot matter of the jurisdic
tional fight between the brew
cry workers and the teamster'
came up. The Brewery Worker,
International is and always ha!
been an industrial type union
The effectiveness of this type o
labor organization is well illus
trated by the very complete
way they have the industry or
ganized. The matter of indus
trial union organization versus
craft organization is important
matter before the convention
The action this afternoon very
well illustrates the way thu
whole question will be handled
to the everlasting shame of the
American Federation of Labor
The teamsetrs and engineer.
have for the last two cOnven
tions been trying to split up thu
brewery workers into small i'm
potent craft organizations.
Tobin Booed
First the Green-cOntrolled eX
ecutive committee made report
against the brewers, for break
ing up their union Then the in
ternational secretary of the brew
cry workers took the floor fol
the right of the worker to choose
the oganization he desired to
affiliate with.
Delegate Tobin, president OF
t h e International Transfers
spoke against such heresy, the
very idea that workers should be
able to choose the type of or.
ganizatiOn they wished to affil
late with drove him to frenzy
of shouting. He was booed from
the gallery and floor of the con.
ventiOn-an unheard of thing in
the history of the A. +. of L.
There is a strong insurgent
move against the official bureau.
crazy. Particularly active in this
work has been the Seattle dele.
gate from the Flour and Cereal
Workers Federal Union No. 1889
James p. Dallas. He has to his
credit four different resolu lions
of rank and file interest, which
are printed in the proceedings OF
the second session Of the con.
vention. They are as follows:
RESOLUTION No. 119. Ask.
ing the American Federation Of
Labor to 60 on record for, and to
recommend to its affiliated and
international unions the gen.
eral and sympathetic strike as
the best means of securing labor
justice against combinations Of
employers and government strike
breaking agencies.
RESOLUTION No. 121. Fol-