The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1924, Page 3

Thursday, May 1, 1924 BiG CONVENTION IN GANONSBURG FOR JUNE 17 20,000 Workers And Farmers Represented By JAMES C. STRONG. (Special to The Daily Worker) CANONSBURG, Penn., April 30.— The Washington County Federated Farmer-Labor Party, held its second convention here on Sunday. Fifty-five delegates, representing approximate- ly 20,000 workers assembled in the Labor Temple. The wage earners of this country made another great stride forward in their fight for political freedom, against the rule of the Pennsylvania coal and steel barons, whose political machine! igs in control of the country. Temporary chairman Stose, called the convention to order. After a speech by, Sec’y-Treasurer Strong in which he spoke on the Far- mer-Labor movement, the floor was thrown open to the delegates for five minute speeches. While each express- ed himself a little differently, all were unanimous in saying that it was time for the producers of the United States to throw away their petty differences and prejudices and join into one big independent, class political party of the Workers and Farmers. To get out upon tHe political field and challenge the employing class government to a finish fight. A notable feature of the convention was the presence of three colored workers, ‘delegates from the Colored Voters’ League of Washington Coun- ty. These delegates stated the colored workers were willing to go along with any sincere movement that would bet- ter the insufferable conditions of the workers. Several delegates were present trom Fayette county, adjoining Wash- ington. They expressed the belief that probably they were out of place at this convention. After being as- sured that a welcome was extended to all workers, they told of having been sent by their unions to get informa- tion, and find out all about the Farm- er-Labor movement. This again gives the lie to the con- tention that the workers are not ready for independent political action. These men came fifty miles in search of instruction anu enlightenment as aow t) organize the forces of the workers and farmers against the pow- erful rule of organized capital. The convention unanimously en- iorsed the June 17th convention at 3t. Paul. A resolution was adopted endorsing the formation of a State Party in Pennsylvania, and calling up- on those issuing the call for the Al- entown convention, on May 12th, not ‘© put off any longer the building of . real Farmer-Labor Party in the State of Pennsylvania. Recognition of Soviet Russia and iationalization of mines was endors- ad. A resolution condemning and orotesting against the action of the Washington County judge who refus- 1d citizenship papers to Andy Harmi- ion, a coal miner because of his poli- ‘ical beliefs, was adopted without a lissenting vote. Do you want to help the DAILY WORKER? Then get a new sub- teriber. ‘ Chicago, North Side.Turner Hall, 820 N. Clark St., 8 p. m. Speakers, Wm. F. Dunne, A. Bittelman, J. Kowalski, A. Presi and John Williamson. May Day Celebration. At the Soviet School, 1902 West Di- vision street, Saturday, May 3, at 8 p. m, Russian speakers and interest- ing musical program. Milwaukee, Wis. Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Wal- nut streets, 7:30 p. m. Speakers, Earl Browder, managing editor Labor Herald; Peter Herd, organizer Young Workers League. Also speaker in Jewish. Program of entertainment. Kenosha, Wis. German-American Club House Audi- torium, 665 Grand Ave. 8 p. m. Speakers, Archie Henderson of the DAILY WORKER, also speakers in various languages. Program and en- tertainment. Racine, Wis. Union Hall, 8 p. m. Speakers, Sam Hammersmark of the DAILY WORKER Staff. Other speak- ers. Rockford, lil. Lyran Hall, 1115 Third Ave., 8 p. m. Speaker, Manuel Gomez, Writer and Lecturer. Program of entertain- ment. Pullman, Ill. Stansicks Hall, 205 Hast 115th St., 8 p.m. Speakers, Max Saltzman, Organizer Young Workers League and others. Program of Entertain- ment. Toluca, Hil. Speakers, Harrison George, Writer and Lecturer. Other speakers in various languages. Hammond, Ind. Place to be announced later. Speak- ers, Jack McCarthy of the DAILY WORKER and others. Gary, Ind. Croatian Hall, 23rd and Washing- ton Sts., 7:30 p. m. Speakers, E. Ettlinger, Organizer Workers Party. Also speakers in various languages. South Bend, Ind. ‘Workers Hall, 1216 W. Colfax Ave. 8 p. m. Speakers, Alex Shap a District Organizer Young Workers League. Also speakers in various languages. May Day meetings in District 10 of the Workers Party of America are scheduled as follows: May 1: Christopher, Illinois; Zeigler, Illinois; Johnson City, Illinois; to be addressed by Arne Swabeck. May 1: Benld, Illinois; Livingston, Illinois; to be addressed by T. R. Sullivan. May 2: East St. Louis, Illinois; May 4: St. Louis Mo. to be addressed by Arne Swabeck. May 4: West Frankfort, Illinois; Valier, Illinois; to be addressed by W. F. Dunne. NEW YORK CITY. : ORGANIZATIONS, ATTENTION! District No. 2, Workers Party, has arranged a grand excursion and moonlight dance on the Hud- son river for Saturday, June 28th. The commodious steamer Cler- mont, having a capacity of 3,000, has been chartered for this occa- sion, Friendly organizations are urged to keep this date in mind and not arrange for any affairs that week, OPERA STARS AND FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY ON PROGRAM FOR BIG MAY DAY FESTIVAL Preparations have been fully completed for a successful May Day Workers’ Children To Rival Capitalist Scout Movements (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, April 30.—To train up boys and girls friendly to the labor movement and to hate war is the pur- pose of the newly formed National Council for Child development. Or- ganizations for working-class children to take the place of-the Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls are to be started in every state. Labor officials, educators and par- ents met at the Intl. Ladies’ Garment Workers’ union headquarters April 23 for organizing the New York district. Thomas Curtiss, New York building trades council, is president, and Abraham Baroff, Ladies’ Garment Workers, treasurer. A, J. Muste, Brookwood Labor college, and Maude Swartz, Women’s Trade Union league are vice-presidents. Socialist . Leaders Support Bourgeois U. S. Mediecracy NEW YORK CITY, April 30.— Those signing the latest paper call of the “Peoples Legislative Service” and the Conference for Progressive Politi- cal Action are Morris Hilquit and Percy S. Grant. The Socialist leader and the unorthodox Episcopalian find themselves bumping elbows as they politely thumb noses at the old politi- cal parties and the class Farmer- Labor parties to either side of them. The timid Norman Thomas is align- ed with the “small but determined group” that thinks it has fought so valiantly against the greatest odds! So, too, Helen Phelps Stokes, Morris Berman, Abraham Baroff, Harriot S. Blatch, Alfred J. Boulton, A. G. Dill, John Lovejoy Elliott, Jessie W. Huhan, Morris Kaufman, Harry W. Laidler, Algernon Lee, Bertha H. Mai- ly, Darvin J. Meserole, Joseph A. Whitehorn, Henry Neumann, Charles F. Powlinson, Mary R. Sanford, Ed- mund Seidel, and B. Charney Vladeck. “Their labor and sacrifice will have been in vain if, now, the workers, farmers, and forward-looking men and women of the great middle clas: of our nation do not rally to their sup- port,” says the call, referring to the old party progressives in congress. THE DAILY WORKER STRIKE OF SUGAR SLAVES BROKEN; NO ORGANIZATION Demand Shorter Hours And More Pay SEATTLE, April 30.—The latest re- volt of the sugar plantattion workers seems doomed to be added to the long list of disheartening defeats suffered in the past quarter century by the Oriental laborers in Hawaii. Altho 5,000 to 10,000 Filipinos quit the plan- tation camps with their families when the call was issued April 1, the com- panies were able to continue opera- tions by bringing in Japanses labor- ers, Three main factors enter into the apparent failure of the Filipinos’ strike. First—Use of the island police in great numbers at all camps and towns. The sheriff of Oahu visited all groups of strikers asking them to return to work. Strikers were dis- heartened by the use of troops called to overawe them, while other work- ers were persuaded not to join the strike by the presence of the armed men. Second—Lack of homes and domain where they can live and hold meet- ings in security. The strikers were ordered to quit their homes, owned by the sugar companies, immediately after the walkout and were forbidden to hold meetings in any island towns except Honolulu. Third—Lack of permanent, effective labor organization. The Higher Wages movement has been in existence less than a year and may possibly disap- pear, to be succeeded in years to come by other evanescent “move- ments.” Filipinos have crowded into Honolulu where the movement’s head- quarters have tried to take care of them. Many have departed for Manila. The strike was called to reduce hours from 11 and 12 to 8 and to in- crease wages from $1 to $2 a day. Better working conditions also were demanded. THE NEEDLE TRADES ALLIANCE IS DEAD; ; “REST IN PEACE” of By ROSE WORTIS. The Needle Trade Alliance is dead.{unions to follow his tactics against neeting at the North Side Turner Hall, 820 North Clark street, 3 p. m., Thursday evening, May Ist, 1924. For the concert program there will be the Russian grand opera stars, Nita Obrastova coloratura soprano, and Gabrilius Hrzanowski, paritone, and the well-known Freiheit Singing Society who always rlease an audience. this May Day Demonstration and An excellent number of speak-| Celebration. Admission is nominal, ws have been obtained, among| being only twenty-five cents. What Does May Day Mean To You? How are you to celebrate this May Day? Are you going to vhich are Wm. I. Dunne, editor, DAILY WORKER; Alexander 3ittleman, member Central Ex- ‘cutive Committee of Workers Party, and former Secretary Jewish federation, J. Kowalski, Secretary Polish section, Workers Party, A. resi, Editor Alba Nuova, Italian Weekly; John Williamson, N. B. C. of foung Workers’ League; Comrade Deweatkin of the Russian Federation, is well as @ South Slavic speaker has veen scheuled. Martin Abern will wreside, f Both halls in N, 8, Turner hall have veen rented for the occasion in order o handle the big overflow crowd. May Day this year will be an occa- \ion for pushing forward more rapidly he campaign for the formation of a ‘lass Farmer-Labor Party in the U. 4. which we expect will be achieved \t the great Farmer-Labor Conference © be held June 17th at St. Paul, Any worker interested at all in un- lerstanding the conditions under vhich he lives and who hopes to or- tanize industrially and politically for ) change,.will be.in ® hurry to get to celebrate the victories labor has ones. But everywhere the greatest victorie: rr looks around, taki May Day is a day when lal This is not a prophesy but a fact. The Alliance organized for the second time last summer, has gone the way of its predecessor. It is no more. "3 The official weekly of the Journey- men Tailors Union writes: “As we predicted, the Alliance has ceased to exist. Our union has sent three delegates to the first conference at which an attempt was made to or- ganize the Alliance; and we sent three delegates to the funeral of the Al- liance, held February 22nd.” The editor of this weekly complains that his union was the only one that has lost money in the entire venture. For the Journeymen Tailors had ac- tually undertaken to defray expenses of sending three delegates sent to the conference, while all the other unions, located in New York, were spared this unnecessary outlay. What happened at the conference of February 22nd and who is responsible for the death of the Alliance? Sigman came to the conference of the Alliance with a grievance. He wanted the Alliance to adopt a com- mon policy for all affiliated unions. This policy was not to outline com.) mon methods for building and strengthening the organization, or to lay plans for unified struggle of the workers against the employers, but was to bind all associated unions to carry out a joint campaign against the revolutionary elements in the organ- ization. Sigman demanded a united front against the progressives on his policy of disruption. He wanted a common plan which would compel all won? They are many and great re yet to be won. an inventory of its achievements and its strength and girds its loins for new strug- gles and new victories. How will American workers celebrate this May Day? les to which it marches*forward with head erect, are the strugg! with militant spirit? What Let May Day, 1924, be a great day of achievement for the American working class. Let it be remembered as a day when great things for labor were accomplished b; Make May Day, 1924, a DAILY i! the real militants. WORKER May Day! Let those who work for wages give their day’s pay to the DAILY WORKER. Let those who do not work for boss this May Day put in their day in making the DAILY WORKER grow by getting new subseri N. Y. Industrial Organizers to Discuss Shop Nuclei. . Shop Nuclei, their branch industri at 208 E. 12th Street, Room 2. pose, function and methods of organization, will be discussed at the next regular th rganizers, to be held on Monday, May Sth, 8 p. m., of Local New York ‘This will be a continuation of the discussion begun at the last meeting of industrial organizers on April 7th. tive to our industrial activity will also be considered. should attend without fail. Other problems rela- All organizers the Lefts; to break up locals, and persecute the militants. Without this he saw no reason for the existence of the Alliance. Hillman came to the same confer- ence with a different plan. He did not eppose such a joint policy, but he wanted that this policy should be ex- pressed in general terms in a resolu- tion against an organized opposition within the unions and tat the official- dom of each union should determine its own methods of carrying out that policy. In other words, Hillman want- ed a joint resolution which should be in harmony with his tactics as laid down some time ago in the so-called ‘Declaration of Peace” to the New York Amalgamated organization. While Sigman on the other hand want- ed a united campaign against the mil- itants along the lines of the Cossack, union-splitting methods he had al- ready initiated. Because of this disagreement the conference was disbanded and the “Alliance” for all practical purposes dissolved. Although no official burial took place, the last rites were cA) ministered and there is no hope for its resurrection, (Continued from Page One) |private Pullman guards if they did not stop selling the paper on the streets adjacent to the Pullman gates. They have been pushed from one gate to another, run down one street and up another for selling the DAILY WORKER at the Pullman gates. Spynow Gets Special Attention. But Nick Spynow, of 10701 Stephen- son avenue, the Pullman agent for the DAILY WORKER has been singled out for the most vicious assaults of the police. Spynow has time and again had his papers taken from him by uniformed police, and only ob- tained them back again after stubborn argument on the part of DAILY WORKER representatives. Saturday, Spynow was selling papers at 103rd street when a fat police sergeant took his papers away from him and started to arrest him. Only the intervention of John Holmgren, strike leader, saved Spynow from arrest. On Tuesday, the day after Spynow’s arrest on Monday, the police again began their unlawful attack on Spy- now. He was rushed from the employ- ment gate down to 103rd street, and from 103rd street back to 111th street. Word had gone out, probably at the direction of Pullman Company of- ficials, that, “The sale of the paper will be stopped.” More police were on hand Tuesday night than at any time, since the start of the strike. Spynow, Reeve, Miss Hodday, John Harvey, and Sam Green were roughly handled and threatened and cursed at. : The most flagrant outrage, has been the arrest, and attempted shooting of Nick Spynow. After Spynow was beaten over the head, and Officer Min- ton, number 4864, had drawn his club, he started to rush Ppynow down Watt avenue, near 113th street. Spynow, seeing that Officer Minton was danger- lously drunk, started to walk briskly jaway to escape the drunken man’s drawn club. Minton drew his revolver and fired two shots at Spynow, who flung himself on the ground to escape being hit. The shots flew over Spy- now’s head and barely missed. some children who were further down the street. Minton seized Spynow, con- fiscated his papers and telephoned for, the patrol wagon. Officer Beats Bystanders. By this time a. crowd of workers, who were coming out of the Calumet Car shop, nearby, stopped and remon- strated with Officer Minton at his ;geitality. Minton again drew his club, aad brutally beat the bystanders off over the shoulders and head with it. A friend of Spynow, seeing Spynow in the hands of a drunken, irrespon- sible policeman, came up and asked Spynow what was the trouble. Officer Minton, number 4864, clubbed Spy- now’s friend over the head viciously. Minton’s blows beat Spynow’s friend to the ground, his clothes being torn, his hat falling off, and he receiving an ugly gash in the head. This man has agreed to act as a witness for the DAILY WORKER when His name is being withheld until that time because he fears further police violence. until that time because he fears further police violence. A laundry driver, who has also been secured as a witness, informed Karl Reeve, who was selling papers at the main Pullman gate, of the attempted Shooting of Spynow. At the Kensing- ton police station, desk sergeant No. 432, who refused to give his name, The Workers Party in Action || Labor News - - Political and Industrial Activities of Workers and Farmers PULLMAN CO. FEARS THE DAILY WORKER AND USES THE POLICE TO STOP WORKERS FROM GETTING IT had secured the bail from John |Stancik, 205 East 115th street. Gets Belongings Back. | It was only after persistent demand |that the desk sergeant returned Spy- |now’s belongings. They kept a dozen copies of the DATLY WORKER as jevidence. Reeve informed acting Cap- |tain Pat Wheeler, on behalf of the |DAILY WORKER, that Spynow was the accredited agent for the paper, jand the DAILY WORKER would con- tinue in spite of threats to send Nick |Spynow out to sell the papers on the streets of Pullman. In court Tuesday morning, Officer Minton showed up, still half drunk. His clothes were rumpled and torn, and his hand was swelled up and bruised. A court attache told the DAILY WORKER that Minton had been out on a spree Monday night and had run his flivver into a lamp-post. Officer Minton, was found by Reeve, trying to coax Spynow to sign a paper. He told Spynow it was only a matter of form and that Spynow had to sign it. Upon examination, Reeve found that OFFICER MINTON WAS TRY- ING TO FORCE SPYNOW TO SIGN AWAY HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL. The case has been set for jury trial May 8th in Municipal Court at 8855 Exchange Ave. Upon examination the DAILY WORKER finds that ordinance 366 SAYS NOTHING WHATEVER ABOUT THE DISTRIBUTION OF NEWSPAPERS OR THE DISTRIBU- TION OF LITERATURE WHEN PLACED INSIDE OF NEWSPAPERS. THE ORDINANCE MENTIONS ONLY THE DISTRIBUTION OF HAND- BILLS UNDER DOORS OR ON STREETS AND ALLEYS. It is the common practice for newspapers to place colored pictures, advertisements of everything from fountain pens to groceries, inside of newspapers. The DAILY WORKER will continue to sell its*paper on the streets of Chicago, and will protect with all the means at its command the safety and lives of its authorized representatives. Page Three ‘BUSINESS AGENT OF ICE CREAM DRIVERS KILLED Union Threatens Strike For More Wages | Just what effect the two deatht |from shooting Monday night will have |upon the thredtened strike of the Ic¢ Cream Drivers could not be learned | yesterday from the union offices. Po lice are holding union officials in com nection with the killing of Samuel S Bills, business agent of the Ice Cream Drivers, and of William Dever, mem ber of the Electrical Workers’ Union, Monday night in front of the hall af 134 Ogden Avenue. Three hundred ice cream drivers are preparing to support their de mands for increased compensation with a strike on May Day. Officials of the Thompson Ice Cream Company said that the drivers were asking for a 33 per cent increase in compensation. The Wholesale Ice Cream Manufacturers of Chicago, of which the Thompson Company is a strong member, are sending out no- tices of warning to all retailers. The union refused to confirm tha demand for a raise. Members in the office of the union would not commit themselves on the chances for a strike. “You see, it’s a matter of the weath: er,” one of the drivers explained. “We're paid a very small salary and commission. When the weather’s bad we don’t make much; but when it’a good we do better.” The long wretched winter just passed has been hard on the ice cream drivers’ incomes and has prompted their demand for increased compensation during the summer months. The electrical workers striking on the Illinois Merchants’ Bank building job, belong to the union involved in Monday night’s shooting. REINSTATEMENT OF EXPELLED GARMENT WORKERS IS BURNING ISSUE BEFORE BIG CONVENTION When the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union meets in annual convention in Boston, May 5 the most dramatic issue before the assembled 325 delegates will be the demand for reinstatement by eleven Chicago militants—and many others in other cities—who were expelled from the union for their mem- The secretary of the Journeymen |told Reeve that “ Tailors Union believes that, responsi- | pooked pail ia Sia red tives bility for the Alliance rests upon Sig-|can’t get him out.” For the next half man and Hillman alone, but this is a]hour Reeve witnessed a most amusing shortsighted estimation. Responsible {exhibition of the mockery of justice, is the entire officialdom of our unions | Minton was scurrying around with a which organized this sort of an Al- Nance. And if the officials are guilty, it is not becar they put a practical end to the Alliance, but because they are the principal promoters of the pol- icy that has produced dissention and disintegration. ‘The death of the Alliance is quite natural. In reality the Alliance was born a monstrosity, the product of a sick leadership. The Alliance was or- ganized only to delude the masses in- to believing that by this means the workers were being united. In reality however, this leadership never wanted unity, At the conference of February 22nd their bluff was called and the actual death of the Alliance reveals their insincerity. The rank and file of our union will not mourn over this disclosure and bewail the death of the perverted Al- Hance. The progressive workers in our unions are striving to achieve a real unification of the unions in the industry, The amalgamation of all gan for which the rank and file must carry on a strong campaign in the unions. There {6 nothing to regret in the death of the Alliance, “May its soul rest in peace.” That {s all that can be said bundle of DAILY WORKERS, the desk sergeant was calling for Captain Patrick Wheeler, Wheeler was calling for Officer Minton. What were they doing? Why, after trying to shoot down Nick Spynow, after hounding him for days, after dragging him to the stationhouse, taking from him his watch, pocketbook, private papers and letters and money and locking him up, ALDERMAN GOVIER HAD TOLD THEM THAT THERE IS NO LAW AGAINST SELLING PAPERS ON THE STREETS OF CHICAGO. Govier told Wheeler that a man does not even need a permit of any kind to sell newspapers unless he runs a perma- nent news stand. Wheeler, the desk sergeant, and Minton kept the »DAILY WORKER agent locked up and kept the DAILY WORKER representative —_ waiting while they looked throu the city law books to see if by hook or crook they could find a charge to justify their un- lawful assault upon Spynow. Finally they agreed that \%—ow and was refused. The desk sergeant refused to tell Reeve what Ordinance 366 was, He was obviously nervous as he wrote Spynow's name in the book. His hand shook so that he almost dropped the pen. Meanwhilo John Holmgren, leader.of the strike, — bership in the Trade Union Educational League. The cases of the expelled mili- tants from New York, Philadel- phia, Cleveland, Boston and other cities cry loudly for justice also, but the Chicago case is the most dramatic, because of the strike now being waged. The eleven Chicago expelled who will put their appeal up to the fair- mindedness of the delegates will come to Boston fresh from the strike battle line on South Market street where Spynow | they have been taking the most active comes to trial on May 8th before|part in the picketing, seeing the in- Branch 38, of the municipal court.|side of police stations and injunction courts and handling important execu- tive posts during the strike. Leaders in Chicago Strike. To mention only two now: Dora Lupschutz, Joint Board member and delegate to the Chicago Federation at the time of her expulsion, has been entrusted with the most important field job during the strike, under the international officials. When the workers poured out of their shops and the battle began, Dora Lipsutz’ offer of her services was accepted at once. She was taken into the strike com- mittee and her ability there caused her to be put in charge of most of the picket work. N. Bosen, former member of Local 18 has been used as an organizer dur- ing the strike. Vice President Meyer Perlstein sent him to Waukegan and he has been instrumental there in striking one of the shops which was making scab dresses to put on the Chicago market. The charge which conservative leaders of the international brought against the members whom they ex- pelled so summarily was that mem- bership in the Trade Union Bduca- tional League was not compatible with good unionism. At the time they paid no heed to the militant’s clear defense that the T. U. EB. L. policies, amalgamation, organizing the unor- ganized, etc., were vital to the well- being of the I. L, G. W. U. which was suffering because of the competition of the low-waged unorganized and be- cause of the weakness of the sepa- rated crafts. Working for Union Victory. But the present dressmakers’ strike and the splendid and leading role taken by the expelled militants has shown that the Trade Union Educa- tional Leaguers were the best union- ists of them all—working for the vic- tory of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers against the Chicago Association of Dress Manufacturers. The devotion and courage and abil- ity of-the militants is recognized by Vice President Meyer Perlstein and all international representatives who visit Chicago. The fact that they have been entrusted with important strike posts speaks for itself. Demand Their Union Rights. Now the expelléd militants are demanding that the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union re- verse the action taken by executives since last summer and restore their union rights. They are fighting side by side with their union comrades during the strike, they deman@ the right to work side by side with them in the union shops which will be or- ganized as the result of their united efforts now. Union Leaders Before Expulsion. The expelled Chicago members who will lay their case before the Boston convention are no mere recent com- ers into the union. Appended to their names which follow, ‘here you will see the union posts they held until they were unjustly expelled. 1, L. DAVIDSON, recording secre- tary of the Chicago Joint Board and member of the organizing commit- tee of the Chicago Federation of Labor. M. A. KANIEWSKY, secretary and treasurer of the Joint Board and ex-board member of Local 5. DORA LIPSCHUTZ, Joint Board member, ex-board member of Local 100 and delegate to the Chicago Federation of Labor. J. GOLDMAN, executive board member of Local 5. JENNIE SWARTZ, Joint Board member and executive board mem- ber of Local 100. T. TERRY, Joint Board member and member of Local 18. 1. LITWINSKY, Joint Board mem- ber of Local 18. SAM COHEN, Joint Board mem: ber, chairman of Local 104, CLARA GABIN, delegate to the Chicago Federation of Labor and ex-board member of Local 100. H. FOGEL, executive board mem- ber of Local 5. N. BOSEN, member of Local 18. These militants were needed before the strike. When they were expelled the union suffered. Their splendid services during the strike have saved the International Ladies’ Garment Workers from defeat. In the na- tional open shop campaign that is now beginning, the left wing are the power that will turn the tide of battle against the bosses. The expelled members must instate* . , ay