The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-04
Party Life
Party Sympathizer
Criticizes the Work
Of District Six

Of District Six
/ AM not a member of the
L Communist Party, but as
some workers say, | am an
active, class conscious and
militant fighter for the work
ers' cause.
My present activity is pri-
marily in the American Fedora
ton of Labor, 1 am a member in
my local union for about twenty
four years and well-knoWn in the
Cleveland labor movement. espe-
cialR as -winger. And as
such, am taking the right to
criticize those within the Commu-
mist Party or those who are left
wingers.
In Cleveland there are about
275,0O0 persons on the relief rolls.
They are all workers; a great num-
Der Of them are members of the
American Federation of Labor in
the different trades. The most vital
question of today is the struggle for
unemployment insurance. We, as
class conscious workers, know we
must fight for the Workers Bill H.
r. 1927, or, as it is known, The
Workers Unemployment and So
cial Insurance Bill"
What has been done in Cleveland
to get the endorsement of the locals
Of the American Federation of
Labor for this bill? In the build
ing trades, very little. WhyP AS
I see it, the reason is that the
Party members and the so-calied
leading members of the I. w. o. are
Tillfully or not willfully sabotaging
this work. In order to make a
statement or an accusation like this
in the open, you must have con-
crete facts. Here they are:
LIN q certain local (the name
OF the locals and the names of the
persons you will get at the end
of this letter, for obvious reasons
they cannot be published) where
the delegate of the Washington I'm
employment Conference in 1894
made a motion to endorse the
Workers Bill, Party members and
also members of the International
Workers Order were present at this
meeting and none of them seconded
that motion. did send a letter to
the Communist Party District in
Cleveland, and they ignored 1t, as
far as I know.
AIT the same local, only recently
Call for the Unemployment In
surance Congress in Washington,
Jan. 5, 6, has been received and
while there were Party members
more than one) none made mo-
ton to read this Call or to send
delegates to this Congress.
3.-At another local where there
are about 80 to 40 Party and I.
w. o. members, resolution to
lower the dues was lost by six votes
for and eleven against it. Those
members of the left did not attend
this meeting. In this local are
about LOO members.
Ain this same local, last year,
the Wagner-Lewis Unemployment
Insurance Bill had been endorsed
by only a small majority. Our
members did not come to the meet
ing.
5.-About two weeks ago, at the
same local. motion to send dele
gates to the Washington Congress
on Unemployment Insurance was
lost, twenty -one votes against and
nineteen for it. Again our" mem
bers did not attend the meeting.
ga few members of the move
ment were arrested and fined. The
rule or the decision of the I. L. D.
is not to pay any fine, but go to
jail. All went to Jail for three or
five days, but the fine was paid for
the Party member.
THE delegates to the Anti War
and Anti-Fascist Congress which
| was neld IN chicago, OF all the mass
organizations, such as the Interna-
tional Workers Order, Freiheit &C.
sangs Farein, Working Women S
Council, etc, the delegates were
Party members.
I think these will be enough
facts at present or for a while.
There are some more. Now, what
do I want or why do I write this
letter to you? Because I see that
all these mistakes are breaking the
movement. And by writing this let
ter, will you In New York in the
Party headquarters try to correct
and call to responsibility all these
comrades.
M.
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