The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1925, Page 2

Bs ig Page Two PRESSMEN MUST. HAVE PROGRAM TOFIGHT BERRY National Campaign Is Necessary for Victory (Continued from page 1.) pletely solidified, Years ago many la- bor leaders in America at least gave lip service to the emancipation of the workers. They talked of socialism. Some of them, like the old lady who had committed an indiscretion in her youth only liked to be talking about it tho they no longer had their heart and soul in their words. The Favored Few. Gradually, as American imperialism grew stronger grind double profits out of the labor of the unorganized colonial peoples, | the labor fakers become more firmly bound up with the capitaliet machine, | until today they are capitalism’s strongest bulwark against the rising tide fo the rebellion among the work- ers. The labor leaders rarely tafk of strikes any more. They have sub- stituted class collaboration for the class struggle. Instead of strengthen- ing the unions to meet the attacks of the employers, and to fight for a higher standard of living and better working conditinos, the labor skates have taken to banking, insurance and other forms of capitalist effort. In- stead of leading the workers to their freedom by a fight against capitalism, the reactionary leaders are turning the unions into tools of capitalism. They are co-operating with the bosses in exploiting their slaves and with the government persecuting the most pro- gressive. wing of. the working class movement. They have degenerated into profes- sional strikebreakers and hardly a week passes that one or more labor leader is not engaged in the nefarious task of scabbing. What Berry is do- ing to the locked-out workers of the Cuneo Printing company, Tom Rickert is doing to the striking employes of the International Tailoring company. That this kind of a thing is in com-| plete accord with the official policy} of the American Federation of Labor, is shown by the fact that William Green, president fo the A. F, of L, en- dorsed the scabbery fo Rickert and that Sam Gompers at the Portland convention gave “Majah” Berry a special greeting after his return from; breaking a strike in New York City. The reactionary labor leaders are “labor lieutenants” of capitalism. They are worth every nickel they get from the employers. Methods More Crude, George L. Berry is only one of the traitors. business is more crude than the method employed by the others of the same type. But looking over the arena, we see John L. Lewis, who drove men like Alexander Howat, Duncan MacDonald, Jim McLachlan, Freeman Thompson and John Watt out the union because they fought for the rank and file. We see William Hutcheson of the carpenters, scabby | “BR ch Ladies James ad O. Bill” Johnston of the ma Garment Union, Workers’ Lynch of the Typographica! Union d hundreds of others, break- ing strikes, expelling progressives, lifting ers and even going to the extent of having the militant trade unionists slugged, Fakers Resemble Each Other. It is quite evident that the struggle in the various unions against crooked leaders cannot succeed unless it is solidified and connected up into a united struggle against the entire reactionary officialdom of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, This struggle must not be waged on the basis of | the basis of personalities, but on principle, Whether George L. Berry is worse than James Lynch or John L, Lewis is not so very important. All those labor skates base their actions on the theory that the interests of the capitalists and the workers are iden- tical. Some of them don’t boldly loot the union treasury in order to get their’. They get it just the same. They all help the employers to rob the workers. Ninety-five per cent of the member- ship of the International Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants’ Union are opposed to Berry. Perhaps in no other union in the country is the oppo- sition stronger. Yet so far they have been helpless. Why is this the case? To say that Berry with five or ten per cent of the membership behind him can rig things so that he can resist the will of such a great majority is not a satisfactory. answer to the question. ‘ In my opinion lack of organization and program is the correct answer to this riddle. Berry has a machine. It is crooked but it is efficient, It knows and reached out to; Perhaps the way he does/ ts, Sigman of the International | the| FIGHTING BREAKS OUT AGAIN IN CANTON, CHINA, LONDON HEARS | LONDON, Aug. 27.—Fighting broke out In Canton yesterday, ac- cording to a report here today from Hongkong. what it is after. Progressives Must Bulld Machine | Qn the other hand there is no om ganization among Berry's opponents. | Sporadic efforts are occasionally | made, in New York today, in Chicago |tomorrow, The conference held in | Chicago in 1919 was a promising step Jand if carried out with determina- | tion would have meant the end of| | Berryism. | The pressmen and the feeders must get together into one unfon in‘ every | city, By doing this they will prevent |Berry from playing off one union |agatmst the other. A start was made {in Chicago a few weeks ago. | The pressmen must organize a pro- |gressive group inside the existing | locals of the L P. P. and A, U, inevery jelty in the United States. Berry has his machine in each local already. This progressive group must havea program of action. One of the most important planks im that program must be amalgamation. All the unions in the printing trades should be amal- gamated. Until this is done the strike effectiveness of the printing trades unions will be almost nil. We have seen the pressmen working in the plant of the Post-Intelligencer in Seat- tle while the typos were on strike. In other cases the pressmen are on strike while the typos rattle away at the keys, This is not trade unionism; it 1s official trade union scabbery. It must be done away with. The Key to the Solution. The key to the solution of the trade union question, the fight against the reactionary leadership and the bosses can be found in the program of the Trade Union Educational League. This program can be secured by writ- jing to the office of that organization | at 1113 West Washington street, Chi- |cago, This program will show that the trade unionists must not only fight | Berryism and all that it stands for jon the industrial field but that they |must also fight it on the political field by raising the slogan of a labor |party against the capitalist trading jot the reactionary leaders, | Industrial unionism thru amalgama- | tion and a labor party, unity of the | workers industrially and a party that | Will break them away politically from | the capitalist parties—these are the | slogans with which the militant trade junionists can meet and defeat their ‘enemies, whether they be open foes \as the capitalists are or false friends masquerading under the name of trade union leaders, see More about the International Print- Ing Pressmen’s Union will appear In the DAILY WORKER. The® fight agalnst Berry Is now starting in real earnest and Important developments are expected shortly. | Churchmen, Educators | and Business to Confer | on How to Fleece China NEW YORK, Aug. 27:—Churchmen and educators have declared a united front with businessmen for an unof- cial conference on Chinese affairs called for Sept. 17 to 20 at John Hop- kins University, Baltimore. Heading the list of participators 1s Owen D. | Young, head of the General Electric |Co. There are also names of repres | entatives who can be traced to Amer- jican silk and tobacco interests. | Needless to say they will not con- sider matters concerning the interests of workers, They will concern them- selves with foriegn customs contro] in China, safeguarding loans and invest- ments, etc. Soviet-Near Orlental Trade. MOSCOW, Ang. 27.—A director of |,one, of the leading trading companies in Palestine is reported to have ar rived at Leningrad to purchase timber, iron, glass, nails and other materials for Palestine, Syria and Egypt. Sev- eral deals have been made, and big cargoes of timber are to be shortly shipped from Leningrad to Egypt and Jaffa, In reference to the development of Soviet-Near Oriental trade, another re- port states that the first consignments of Donetz coal, purchased in fairly big amounts by Greek shipping com- panies, have reached Greece, where Soviet coal was not known before, and that as these goods have proved to be a superior quality new orders are expected from Greek quarters concerned. Soviet Newspapers Optimistic. MOSCOW, Aug. 27—(Tass)—The | local papers note with satisfaction the reported generally favorable trend of business negotiations now under way | between Polish industrialists and So- viet institutions concerned. T. U. E. L. PICNIC COMMITTEE MEETS NEXT SATURDAY EVE. Delegates to the T. U. E. L. pienio at 19 So, Lincoln St. next Saturday, August 29, at 8 p. m. At this meeting the business of making the last picnic of ie fpouseed Representatives from all PRCA ONO BY, SS committee are Instructed to be present the year a big and successful one will branches are required to be there. i APPROVES OF C.E. 0. REPORT Listens to Extensive Re- ports and Debates (Continued from page 1) a whole into four distinct periods, The first was from January to May in 1924, when the party was preparing for the June 17th convention. In that period the main purpose was to bring about the formation of a farmer-labor party—or if not—to get united labor fight in the presidential election. In spite of a big convention we did not succeed. It is important to know why the failure occurred. When the present C. E. C. came into power we found a critical situation on account of the split at the July 8rd convention, the growing LaFollette movement. The C. E. C, realized the party was iso- lated, especially in the industrial cen- TME DAILY WORKER economic fleld was “favorable to the development of rei it illusion Conversely, it was ble to a revolutionary party, ©!) * ‘The. minority com is! had critic- ized his statement that among the varying opposition AGrits to cap- italist Imperialism, y tthe Workers (Communist) * Party uu) “create” an opposite movement which would be effective In overthrowing capital: ism, His critics had taken exception to the word “create.” They said: “Isn't the Workers Party itself a product of objective conditions? Then how can it create movements by it- self?” This is not dialectics, but me- taphysics, Bittelman declared. On the scale of the world struggle it needs a Communist International to weld to- gether and push forwand the opposi- tion to capitalist impeffalism which is required to overthrow ‘it; So on the national scale, the varying movements of opposition to big ‘capital cannot overthrwo its rule without the inter- vention of the Communist Party. It may be a slight ‘error of terms applied to say “create” but between Ruthenberg’s mistake-and ‘Bittelman’s mistake, he believes he would rather be guilty of Bittelihan’s mistake. This was the basis for thd minority’s minimizing of the Communist Party, their view that the Workers Party cannot d oanything, that it is only a ters and the chief field for formation of a farmer-labor party was in the ag- rarian Northwest. It was not the pres ent C, E. C. who switched the basis of the farmerdabor movement to the Northwest—this was already done. There were two factors: there-had been no great mass movement in the industrial enters, but what there was, was largely in agrarian districts, also, the policy of the previous C. E. C., which had pursued the policy of ori- entation toward the Northwest. The policy of the united front had been continued. There were differ- ences in the C. E. C. over preparation for the St. Paul convention. One group wanted no more repeti- tion of the July 8rd mistake, no pre- mature split off of the left wing and there was disagreement on dates for the St. Paul convention. Our farmer allies of the Northwest wanted Dost- Donement. We tried to agree. An- other difference in the OC. BE. C. was the question ‘whether we should fight for the immediate formation of a la- bor party regardless of whether the or- ganization had mass support or was merely our own party and a.few sym- pathetic organizations. The actual organization of the unit- ed front was defeated. Why? Be- cause the eeénomic and political fore- es which brought about the rise of the LaFollette‘movement, and the po- “red flag” and counts for nothing in the political struggle, As to the right wing, it existed in not only the Finnish, but in the Jew- ish federation and in all other sec- tions of thé party. And since the C. I, decision: for a fight against it, the majority had sharpened and inten- sified this fight while the minority had softened it. That was why, he contended, that the minority lost New York, where the majority did not ex- pect to win against both the Lore group and the minority, but had done so because the membership saw the difference in attitude of the minority and majority group towards Loreism and had come over to the majority on that basis, Comrade Lovestone, said’ Bittelman, had said the majority were the tight wing because they were aganist “wild maneuvers,” while the right wing was against “maneuvers” on principle. Yet Comrade Lenin had’ said precisely. that. it was the “wild maneuvers” of ultra left Communists .which played into the hands of the right wing op- Position to all maneuvers. Such “wild maneuvers” was observable in the minority’s actions in .the Philip- Pine question and in the, Federated Farmer-Labor Party, True, Bittelman said, there had been no revolution last year. But even the C. E. C. could not be: blamed for that. The question wast Did we, in the cir- litical backwardness of the American masses andthe treachery of the union bureaucracy, were stronger than the forces of our party. Another tactor was the C. I. decision against the third party alliance upon which from January until th edecision our party had based {ts policies. Political lite had not stopped. We had to func tion. The C. EB. C. was nearly unani- mous on this policy which was our base up to May. Upon the decision, the party had to reorientate itself over night under fire and at the time the A. F. of L. opened fire on St. Paul and on our party. After June 17, the C. HE, C. was convinced it would not succeed, the agrarian elements were predom- inant and with the exception of our own delegates all were for LaFollette, The speaker then traced objective and subjective conditions thrn the as never before or since—and afte: a detailed analysis of the succeed! period, Comrade Bittelman reiterate: that upon the background of objective conditions the party had come thru many crises as well as could be ex- pected and had made great accom- plishments in the political situation. Among other accomplishments had been the united front in many fields, the Lanzutski-Polish work, the Abram- ovitch campaign, unemployment, trade union unity, anti-child labor, Crouch and Trumbull, fight on wage cuts, for Soviet Russia, hands off China, all anti- imperialist work, anti-religious work, antf-socialist party work, extensive trade union work in all fields, mem- bership campaigns, agrarian work, women’s work, work among Negroes, labor defense, building up of the press and literature distribution, aid to the Yo#ng Workers’ League and an in- tensive fight on the right wing. The floor was thrown open for dis- cussion and Comrades Dunne, Kruse, Johnstone, Bimba, Foster, Lovestone, Krumbein, Lifshitz Bell, Ballam, Man- ley Gitlow, Browder, and Bedacht de- veloped the views of both groups. Then Bittelman took thé floor to sum up. There had been no political debate, Bittelman declared. He was sorry, par- ticularly that in the name of Marx- ism, non-Marxian precepts had been brought forth. It was ridiculous, Ruth- enberg had said, to say that objective conditions had made it hard for a reyo- lutionary party to stand its férces while I had been easy for the LaFol- lette movement to do so. Yet the C. I, had said that in a period of revolu- tionary stagnation the reformist illu- sions found particularly favorable soil, the Communist movement found par- ticular difficulty and, in addition, the latter was endangered by a penetra- tion of the Communist movement by these reformist illusions of the petty bourgeoisie, The ©. LE had definitely stated that the American bourgeoisie had liquida- tion particularly some of its crises, and that this together with the de- feats suffered by the workers on cumstances prevailing, accomplish the best we could»for the marty? As to fighting the ‘right wing,,,Baltam had said that it was immaterial whether or not they had called the Finnish groups in New Work white guards, yet ex- perience shows that it was not the right way to defeat right wing lead- ers by calling th eworkers supporting them white guards. The majority meant to carry on the fight on the right wing, it would like to carry on this fight along with . the minority }comrades, but if they would not co- operate, then the majority would carry it on without this co-operation. This ended the debate and resolu- tions came before the convention for a vote. 5 The majority resolution upon the Plenum of the E. C, of the C. I. wa: passed by 40 to 20 votes... The Parit; Commission resolution of the Politi cal Situation and the Immediate Task: of the Party passed unanimously. Thi resolution on the past activities of th party presented by the majority, Passed by a vote of 40 to 21. Comrade Abern then moved the fol- lowing resolution: “In view of the fact that the theor- ies about the labor party which were expounded in the thesis of August, 1923, have been widély spread thru- out the party, and have never been of- ficially and specifically repudiated by our party, this convention declares that the theories of the August thesis, the theory of competing fabor parties, the theory of a Communist labor party, the splitting off of the left wing and the transformation’of the labor party in a mass Communist Party, all of these theories are declared to be contrary to the decision!of the Com- intern,” Ci Comrae Ruthenberg imtroduced the following amendment tosAbern’s reso- lution: Ue ‘In view of the fact that the Third National Convention of the party adopted unanimously a resolution ‘That the November thésis adopted by that convention superseded all previ- ous theses on the Labor Party ques- tion’—the question of the August the- sis is no longer an issue‘in our party.” The above amendment was lost by a vote of 21 to 40 and tne*Abern resolu- tion carried by a vote of 40 to 21, This closed the session. At the Wednesday evening session greetings were read from Chinese and Japanese organizations, which are given elsewhere, along with an addi- tional appeal from Comrade Presi and @ protest from the Lithuanian branch of Kenosha, Wis., at the factional sit- uation in the party. Also was read a message from the English and Ger- man branches of Detroit for unity and strug! ainst right wing Loreism. Comrade Vjorik, whe accompanied the Swedish workers’*Welegation to Soviet Russia, there, and told of the impression Soviet Russia had madé’on the socia! democratic workers Ri; ud Labor in Wisconsin Must Organize Its Independent Class Political Power By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, aT SPAY: a senatorial campaign rages in Wisconsin, and it is to be expected that LaFollette, Jr., a candidate, will try to exploit the “war record” of the late Senator LaFollette, Sr., in his hunt for votes. There are large numbers of Ger- mans in Wisconsin and they cannot forget that the last war was waged by the United States against Germany. Farmers are naturally pacifists, and Wisconsin has a large agrarian population. The anti-war issue is therefore popular in the badger state. ‘ This is clearly shown in the current issue of “The Wis- consin Farmer” which editorializes under the heading of “A Reign of Law, Not a Chaos of War.” But the program of this publication toward war Is one of pure pacifism, en- dorsing at the same time the recently announced programs of hoth the British and the American councils for the pre- vention of war, the one issued under the heading of “Amer- ica First!” and the other broadcasted under the title of “Britain First!” It reaches the generat conclusion that: “The ultimate eradication of war will be by education. Anything which tends towards that end Is to be commended.” ° * e ° But, the education carried on by the pacifists against war only blinds the workers and poor farmers to the real nature of their struggle. It demoralizes their fight. LaFollette was against war. But in the days of the greatest slaughter, he had no program to end it. His only program was offered in an effort to show the United States government how best to carry on the business of murder, LaFollette offered taxation measures to raise funds to carry on the bloody job; he had his ideas on how to raise the morale of the soldiers who were being led to the killing pens, and it was his state legislature that ousted one of its mem- * bers for making an anti-war speech, unable to trim his sails sufficiently to meet the demands of the LaFollette brand of patriotism. * * * * This senatorial campaign in Wisconsin offers another opportunity to make clear to the workers. and farmers of that state the real nature of the social system that oppresses them. . Under the half century regime of LaFolletteism in Wisconsin their condition has not improved. LaFollette did not make open war against capitalism, the taskmaster, in an effort to end it. Neither do the Wisconsin “socialists,” who issue their inane pleas for “honesty” and “decency” in politics. Only the Communists, in Wisconsin as everywhere else, raise the standards for the overthrow of the bandit system that plunders city and land workers alike. Events are forcing Wisconsin's workers to find their way out of the wilderness of “progressive” politics into the clear light of the class struggle, that will guide them in their efforts to build their independent class power. * * * * It is another farm editor, Henry A. Wallace, of Des Moines, la., son of the late secretary of agriculture in Coo- lidge’s cabinet, who says that. the family tragedies caused by the farm bankruptcies are infinitely greater than the grief caused by the actual deaths which took place during the world war. But it is not enough to know and to say that workers suffer from capitalist wars; that labor is the victim of capitalist exploitation. The worst capitalist reactionary can say that. Means must be found to end wars and ex- ploitation. Oppressed labor will find the only path of its escape laid down in the Communist program that educates and organizes workers for the victory over capitalism. Against Coolidgeism, against LaFolletteism, the workers and farmers must rally to the standards of Communism in Wis- consin. ported upon the resolution adopted by the C. HB. C. and approved by the Par* ity Commission upon the Labor Party. There should be little disagreement, he said, owing to the unanimous na- ture of thé approval of this resolution. There must be real agitation for a Labor Party, particularly in local unions and central bodies. A drive must be made for real mass support. Experience shows need of more care- ful work. The slogan for a Labor Party must be made concrete to the workers in each particular organiza- tion, especially when they are engaged in struggles. In each union comrades must adapt the application of the slo- gan to the particular situation, In general it must be connected with issues the workers comprehend as im- mediate and vital. These are needful preliminaries to organizational steps. The obstacles were the La Follette illusion, the “non- partisan” attitude of the labor unions and the agitation for a third bourgeois party. It is needful to carry out organiza- tional steps at the earliest moment real mass support is certain, local or state organizations preceding national organization. Development is not even and equal. Our forces must penetrate the or- ganizations which express the political aspirations of the workers as well as the economic organizations represent- ative of working masses, We must deal with existing organizations. The matter of Minnesota was dealt with, We must guard against infiltration of petty bourgeois ideas into our own ranks, especially we must be on guard when organizational steps are taken, We must put the Workers Party and its role to the fore, the party must advance to the degree that the Labor Party movement advances. We must draw revolutionary implications from our demands, must strike a revolution- It was not: sufficient to agree to a Labor Party policy. !t is a weakness of the party that we did not under- stand as completely as we ought why there, must. be a Labor Party. The masses of America were not yet class conscious as in Europe, where mass parties of labor were formed long ago. In this country we must have a bridge across the gulf| It was necessary to understand why the Labor Party is the form. The unions have their separate struggles, a labor party gives them a class unity. First, a labor party gathers together and unifies the mass- es, second, it turns these masses against the capitalist state power. It fs necessary in the press, in classes and thruout the party that the mem- bership be educated upon the labor party policy so the party can be mob- ilized to a man in the fight for a labor party. Immediate demands had always been the basis of the labor party pol- icy. The party must organize com- mittees in unions, in central bodies, in the C. P. P. A. and in other or- ganizations to work for organizations of the labor party. Agitation must be cai on in city elections. The success of such agitation is exampled by the experience of Comrade Wilkins in Lima, Ohio. A labor party is to function not only for election campaigns, but also outside in all the political struggles. Where possible we shall run Com- munists on a full Communist program as labor party candidates, Repeating the necessity of educating the party membership upon the labor party pol- icy, Comrade Ruthenberg ended his Presentation of the subject. Several comrades spoke briefly up- on the reports, Browder summed up the discussion, briefly disagreeing with the illustration of Lima, Ohio, as a proof of correct policy, because the branch of our own party had de- _|that the Labor Party policy must be clined as the labor party movement had increased. hi be resolu ary note. Last year there were o| jective reasons for mistakes. No it will be easier to build more sec! ly, The party must tackle this jo seriously, vigorously and effectivel; for a Labor Party movement which will be the basis for building up our own Communist Party in this country. Comrade Ruthenberg, following, ac- cented the importance of the party securing a fundamental understanding Klan Conference Closes. BUCKEYE LAKE, O., Aug. 27—The national council of the ku klux klan which has been in progress here since Tuesday is to end tod No outsider is allowed in to the meeting and the doors are carefully guarded continu SIGMAN'S LIES BARED BY LEFT WING COMMITTEE Militants of the Needle Trades Repel Force (Continued from page 1.) chairman of the L. & W. Cloak Co. of 28-30 East 10th street, refused to call a shop meeting ordered by the Joint Board. After several business agents sent by the Joint Board had failed to force Rabinowitz to call the meeting, he was attacked by gang- sters on his way home from work and was badly beaten, His assailants also escaped without arrest. Harry Farber was also beaten up at 32 West 18th street, whete Rose was beaten up. eels The Joint Committee of Action is- sued an emphatic denial of the Joint board’s etatement that the workers discharged result of last Thurs- day’s stoppage had come to the board for help, saying that they had been misted in this fight. All the shops, where workers have been locked out have been handled by the Joint Committee of Action. More than half of them have been settled and the workers have all been taken back. In the other shops strikes have been called and these places are now being picketed by committees from the Joint Committee, Joint Board Terrorism, The joint board, instead of trying to settle any shop difficulties as they pretend, is actually attempting to stir up more trouble for the workers by threatening jobbers who will not agree to boycott certain contracting shops. Every sort of terrorism is being used by the union officials to force the members to recognize their authority, and especially to pay them dues. In addition to these tactics of force, the joint board is endeavoring to stir up race antagonism by filling the shops on strike with workers from the Italian locals. These Italian mem- bers are not so weli acquainted with the issues in the fight as are the Jew- ish workers, and they are allowing themselves to be used as scabs be- cause they have been misled by the joint board officers, The Joint’ Committee of Action is planning a special campaign of in- formation among the Italian workers, feeling certain that if they fully un- derstand the situation they. will not join wtih the corrupt officials in op- posing the rank and file of the mem- bers in their fight for a democratic union, Sigman Gang Takes Jobs, Two examples of the joint board’s ‘| Dersecution of workers were cited to- day by Louis Hyman, chairman of the Joint Committee of Action, At the Principal Cloak Co., 32 West 18th street, five operators were dis- charged last Friday as a result of Thursday's stoppage. The Joint Com- mittee of Action settled the matter with the employer and the workers were reinstated and went back to work yesterday. Yesterday 5 business agents from thé joint board, together with a strong arm detachment, visited the shop and threatened a strike if the 5 operators Were not sent down at once. Against his will, the employer was forced to let the operators go, and the Joint Committee of Action has now declared a strike in the shop. Another Strike, At the Magedoff Co. at 122 West 27th street, an operator and a presser were discharged as a result of the stoppage and while the boss was will- ing to take back the operator, Bres- lau insisted that he be allowed to fill the presser’s place with someone else, The operator refused to go back with- out the presser, and the joint board re- fused to let the presser return, so this shop has also been declared on strike, Militants Officially Expelied. Official notification was received to day by C. S. Zimmerman, Rose Wor tis, B, Miller and Pauline Morgen- stern of Local 22 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union that at a meeting of the New York Joint board, held last Friday, August 21, they were expelled from the exe- | cutive committee of Local 22 and bar- red from holding office or taking part in union activities for 3 years, This expulsion follows the suspen. sion of these members several weeks | ago after they had been omitted, evi. / dently thru oversight, from the gen eral suspevsion and trial of all execu. tive committee members of Locals 2, 9 and 22 which took place in June, ‘These newly expelled officers are all members of the Joint Committee of Action and have been taking a promi- nent part during the past two months in the fight of Locals 2, 9 and 22 “against the officials of the union, Pressers Meet Today. The Joint Committee of Action is responsible for the calling of a meet- ing of Progressive Pressers, members of sos which will be held at Web- er: | on Thu right after work, 1’ Ateust 37, Plans will be outii operation between Operators, finishers in any difficulties ari ater oe fe call for the meeti; has be en od to all members tt be ned for close co- pressers and the and dreasmakers ising in cloak and