The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-29

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convention have been greatly en-
HANGED.
The theory is that industrial
unionism properly controlled is not
SO dangerous for employers as had
been thought.
Nevertheless it is certain that a
test of strength will come on this
issue unless agreement to leave it in
allegiance is reached after the ar
rival of President Green, whose
failure to be here at the opening of
the department convention is caus-
ing considerable comment. This is
to be seen from the new lineup in
the Building Trades department,
where the Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers, the Electrical Workers, and the
Bricklayers have fled applications
for utilization after being out for
years. The inner conflicts among
the of1cialdom of the Building
Trades department prevented their
being seated so far, but this matter
will be adjusted so as to take care
Of the major question of the propo-
sal to enlarge the executive council
and rally all building trades unions
against it.
Daniel Tobin, head of the Team
sters Union, has indicated his ten
tative support of the plan to en-
large the executive council, in a
statement here in which he puts
the scheme on the high grounds of
bringing in new blood" to
fight Communists. The importance
of the Tobin statement to the local
press lies in the fact that this is the
first time any of the supporters of
so-called vertical unionism have adj
mitted openly that their main pur-
pose is to strengthen the bureau
cracy as against the rank and file.
Anti Worker Drive Prepared
San Francisco and the State gen.
orally seem to be preparing for
another intensffication of the anti
working class drive in connection
with the convention. The Metal
Trades and Building Trades de-
partment convention liste n d
shameleSSly to greetings from
Mayor RosSi, whose police murdered
striking longshoremen in the streets
only two months ago, whose en-
tire police force cooperated with the
fascist bands of the Citizens COM
mittees in raiding homes, halls, and
headquarters of suspected Commu-
nists and striking members of the
longshoremens and sc a m n S
unions.
The convention of the California
State Federation of Labor, held in
Pasadena, a town OF millionaires
has helped to create the proper at
moSphere for the A. F. of L. con-
vention here by electing Edward
Vandeleur, head of the Municipal
RailWaymen'S Union and one of the
Central Labor Council strike COM
mittee mainly responsible for the
betrayal of the general strike, as
president. The State Convention,
it is claimed, representing some
As 900 members, mainly of the
Building Trades, refused to endorse
a resolution recognizing the Com
munist Party as legal Party and
thus help to check the campaign
of terror and continual arrests, al
though the Party is on the ballot
and held its convention in the State
capital. The intention of Schar-
renburg. secretary of the Interna-
tional Seamen's Union, Vandeleur,
and other officials to give aid and
comfort to the campaign of fascist
suppression of Communists and
revolutionary union members is
clear.
Aid to Anti-Red Drive
Other indications of the inten-
ton of the California authorities to
make their antilabor suppressions
coincide with the scheme of Presi-
dent Green and others to start
another anti-red drive in the unions
following this convention are to be
seen in the denunciation of Com
munism by President Sproul in his
address to 5000 students of the
University of California in Los An
geles, Tuesday, and in the more
arrogant and insulting tone of the
specially written editorials in the
Hearst press by Richard Washburn
Child, former Ambassador to Italy.
and the main fascist connection of
the Hearst syndicate. Child writes
for the Sept. Is Hearst sheets, in
connection with the problems fac
ing labor, that labor unionism and
good labor union leadership must
come to the defense "of the Amer
lean way against the organized
minorities of corruption, Commu-
niSm and chaos"
All resolutions of the Rank and
File A. F. of L. Committee on I'm
employment Insurance will be pre-
sented to the convention at Mon
days session, thus assuring the
raising of these issues as early as
the convention 0rparoi1a tio,, nor