The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20
Continued from Page y

CIaTdcJ6I1z6Q MIN as the HOSJ
courageous labor leader in Amer
ica." At the same time, the most
courageous" Zimmerman, as man
ager of Local %, ]. L. G. w. u, re-
jected every proposal to involve the
local union members officially in
the united trade union demonstra-
ton on Union Square to protest
against the treachery Of Green and
to support the general strike. Nor
did Mr.. Zimmerman do anything
else to involve the broad member
ship of Local % in any actions
whatsoever in support of the gen.
eral strike. The courage" and
daring" of these demagogues never
goes further than mere pronounce
mentS of radical phrases.
Scratch the surface of these
phrase mongering Zimmermans and
you will find the same reaction
aries as the "rock-ribbed, old-line
A. F. of L. burocrats."
Words Versus Deeds
On several convenient public oc-
casions, Zimmerman and his hench-
men in the I. L. G. w. U. have
made revolutionary spe ech S
against" the NR.A. The nation
all bureau of the renegadeS' c. P.
o., of which Zimmerman is mem
Der, have gone SO radical in one
of their recent statements as to
declare that :" the American
workers will be able to build up
their unions and win union recog-
milton only thru unceasing and de-
termined struggle against the en-
ployers, the government, and the
MIRA. 1t is this struggle that con-
stitutes the central task of labor in
the present period"
Hear, hear" an Englishman,
would say. Beautifully said. But
how did Zimmerman fulfill in ac-
ton this central task of labor?"
Mr.. Julius HICKMAN, the manager
of the New York Dress Joint Board
of the l. L. G.. w. U. and Mr..
Dubinsky, president of the l. L. G..
w. U. are such boastful enthusiasts
of the NR.A. that they are COM
peting with Sidney Hillman and
President Roosevelt as the real
fathers Of this boon to American
labor, the N.R.A.
Gave Johnson National HOOk-up
Their worship of the MIRA. goes
to such degree that during the
recent convention of the I. L. G..
w. U. n Chicago these officials
spent thousands of dollars of the
workers money for a national hook
up to let General Hugh johnson
make that notorious anti-union,
strike breaking speech in which he
denounced all those who seek to
establish the thirty hour week,
spewed poison against the steel
workers who were then preparing
to strike and, in the same breath,
praised to the skies the wonderful
leadership Of Dubinsky and Hill
man. The same officials brought to
the convention the strike breaker,
Homer Governor of Illinois, and
host of NR.A. directors who took
up most of the time of the con-
vention advising the workers to seek
Justice" only through the MIRA.
and discard the primitive" and
"uncivilized" method of strikes.
For such "unceaSing and determ-
ined struggle against the employers
and the N.R.A." as was thus dis
played by HICKMAN and Dubinsky,
Zimmerman and his crew decided
to vote for HICKMAN as manager of
the Joint Board and for Dubinsky
as president of the Union. It is
true that incidentally" Dubinsky
and HICKMAN also voted for Zim-
norman as vice-president The
cynical say that 1t was all "horse
deal" But let's not forget that
Zimmerman is still "the most cour-
ageouS leader of labor in America"
Thus Dubinsky and HICKMAN, with
Zimmerman as their bedfellow, will
lead the needle trades workers to
fulfil the central task of labor in
the present period, the struggle
against the N.RA."
-LovestOne Style
But the Zimmermans and the
Lovestones are also very resource
full. They know of many ways
to combat" the MIRA. One of
these was their most recent de-
cision that all workers complaints
for non payment of established min
imum wages by the employers in