The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1925, Page 3

_ A. B, Seaman $39.82 THIS ers’ Government. THE T.U.E.L. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into Organs of Revolutionary Clas of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm- PAGE Is Devoted to the Activity and Interests of the Trade Union Edacational League é (T. U. BE. U.) North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (R. 1. L. U.) wre Its Struggle for the Overthrowal SEAMEN’S COMMITTEE TELLS OF LIFE AND CONDITIONS ON SHIP IN CALL FOR WORLD SOLIDARITY The following excellent description of the conditions of life of seamen on American ships gives sufficient reason for the strike called by the I. W. W. Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union No. 510, just as the I. W. W. strike itself is given as proof of the need for international unity. Not only is the following article interesting, but-it is a call to action from the hands of @ seaman, J, Stone, secretary of the +— International Marine Workers’ Amal- gamation Committee. se 8 The Condition of the Marine Workers The workers of one of the greatest industries, of this country—in fact, one of the greatest industries of the world the marine workers, stand today un- organized, weak and incapable of real- ising the fight they could wage inst the prevailing conditions of Slavery thru the upbullding of a pow- erful marine union. Wages. Altho the shipowners and the capi- talist government of this country claim that the American seaman is the highest paid in the world, he is in fact the lowest paid if we take in- to consideration the high cost of liv- ing in the U. S. in comparison with that in other countries. For instance: England Holland Sweden $38 $40 Fireman ............ 42 “0 40 On the American ships the sea- man’s wages range from $40 to $50 on private vessels and are about $62.50 on U. S. shipping board vessels; for ‘firemen, $50 on private ves-els and $67.50 on U. S. S. B. vessels. The work on the U. S. S. B. ships is, however, not steady, since ships are iaid up so often that one is never.sure ‘of his job: ‘To make’a trip on a ves- sel for a month or two and then to ‘be laid off to loaf for another month in the shipping offices waiting for an- other job is an experience that very frequently happens to the American seafarer. Moreover, everybody ‘knows that it is easier to live on $40 in England, Holland, or Sweden than it is to live on the same amount or even on $50 or more in the U. 8. A. And so if we also take into consideration that the job of the foreign s¢aman is more steady we will come to the conclu- sion that the American seaman is the lowest paid. Working Hours and Overtime. A few years ago when the Interna- tional Seamen’s Union was still strong and the seamen»had an agree- ment with the shipowners and when the shipping commissioner acted as an intermediary between them, the working hours of the men on deck or fire or engineer rooms were esti- mated at eight hours a day, Every additional hour, be it at sea or in port, was paid for at the rate of time and a half. With the break up of the International Seamen's Union the payment of overtime was abolished and the old 12-hour day for the men on deck was again introduced. After the strike won by the I. W. ‘W. Marine Transport Workers’ Indus- trial Union, the eight-hour day was again given to the seamen, but the overtime was abolished for good. To- day a seaman can work from 12 to 14 hours a day without getting any compensation for time worked above the regular eight hours. There is no law or agreement to protect the sea- man from working longer hours. In most cases a lot of work on ship, instead of being. attended to in port by the shore gang, is left to be done at sea either by the black gang if it is in engine or firerooms or by the sailor if it happens to be on deck. Food, . Now about the food on American yessels. It will be easy to guess what seamen eat aboard the American ships when we learn that most of the shipping companies allow about 35 cents a day for the feeding of a man. ‘This, minus the graft on the part of the port steward and the other sharks, reduces the allowance*to 20 or 23 cents a day. No wonder that the seamen on most of our vessels are starving to death from lack of nourishing food, Conditions of & In order to keep the seamen unor- ganized, in order to enslave them the more, the American shipowners are maintaining a force of detectives— so-called “special: ‘whose duty it is to spy upon the workers, to re- port their conversation, and to pre- vent the “radical elements” from en- tering the docks. They also have spe: cial men whd mix with those in fore- castle, foreroom, or glory hall (the last is a large room for waiters and those of the steward department). ys They also spy upon those with radi- cal tendencies and report upon them upon arrival in port. Men feported in this way are rarely only discharged; in most cases they are. blacklisted or even framed-up. To raise your voice for your rights is equal to rebellion; for such a thing one is always, apt to be accused of belonging to the I. W. W. even tho you may never have gone near that organization. To frame-up an I. W. ‘W. is a very frequent scheme and it is done ever so often. In the past only the blacklist, but today a beat- ing or even a murder by hired gang- sters of the shipowners is a very com- mon thing on the water front. What Is the Blacklist? In the olden days the blacklist meant a list of names of undesirable sea workers. It was kept under cover and rarely displayed. At present it is very common that before signing articles, a seaman’s name is carefully looked up in a certain book by a cer- tain man whose appearance and du- ties are of a very doubtful character. This individual shouts 0. K. to the commissioner if the seaman’s name is not on the blacklist and then the seaman is permitted to sign up for a voyage. If the O. K, is not given the seaman is contemptuously rejected and thrown out. > Fingerprinting Introduced. The . fingerprinting, of seamen was practiced only during the war, but now it has again been introduced by the government on the west coast. Every seaman must leave his finger- prints before signing on the ship's ar- ticles. This disgraceful way of treat- ing a seaman as if he were a crim- inal will in all probability reach the east coast before long. ’ The Deportation of Seamen. It is greatly to the advantage of shipowners that seamen are mostly foreigners for with our new laws in operation a seaman can easily be de- ported as one who has illegally en- tered this country. The legality of a seaman’s entry can easily be disput- ed. For years foreign seamen have manned our ships; even today more than 60 per cent of the seamen on American vessels are foreigners. Dur- ing the war the American authorities were only too anxious to have these foreigners since 80 per cent of those who carried ammunition and trans- ported soldiers for the American gov- ernment were foreigners. Today scores of them are deported because they are “too radical” for the Ameri- can shipowners. y One who spends most of his life at sea, who has no friends or relations ashore, tho is not able to marry on ac- count of low wages, can easily be de- ported, framed-up or even murdered without any one ever learning of this outrage. And since the existing or- ganizations in the marine industry are too weak to protect the interest of the seamen, the seaworkers in Ameri- ca are the most helpless’ and forgot- ten men on earth, The administration of Coolidge has done away with the LaFollette law; it has diminished the power of the shipping commissioner, converting him into a tool of the shipowner; it has given the law en- tirely over into the Wands of the ship- owners, And that is why the Ameri- can ships are the most intolerable to work on since they carry,men with a suppressed spirit, enslaved and op- pressed like no other seamen under any other flag, International Unity. The Marine Transport Workers’ In- dustrial Union No, 510 of the I. W. W. have called a strike and written their demands to correct in some measure the abuses and conditions described above. The International Marine Workers’ Amalgamation Committee ndorses the demands of the I, W. W. en and calls upon all marine workers, organized and unorganized, to co-operate with the I. W. W. in their struggle against the shipowners. But, in addition, the I. W. W. as a whole should realize the importance of affiliation with the Red Internation- al of'Labor Unions, since to combat the tremendous power of the shipown- ers—who enjoy the full co-operation of the capitalist government—and to organize the tens of thousands of ma- rine workers still unorganised, the OF FAKER'S GRIP BUT OMITS CURE Collective Not Individual Action od By JOHN M. WALKER (Worker Correspondent.) The writer wishes to show the rail- road men of the different organiza- tions just how they are being led astray by their grand lodge fakers. Before a convention is held, the board of directors gets together and makes out all the changes they want in the constitution, They then have all their tools, their hand picked dele- gates, vote the way they want them to vote. Over half of these delegates are not in railroad service, but they have a nice trip every three years at the brotherhood’s expense. The Way It Is Done The board of directors consist of the grand president, vice-presidents, general secretary and treasurer. How can the rank and file expect to get anything when these fakers are there to get everything for themselves? If a delegate goes to a convention and does not ‘fall in with the gang, he never is seen at another convention. This is the way it ig done: It is three years before another convention. In that three years, one of the vice-presi- dents visits the delegates home town, gets the president, secretary and a few more local officers, and tells them never to sent Brother So and So to another convention, as he couldn't talk, was unreasonable and kept the convention in an uproar. The faker never gets up in open meeting and make these charges, but spreads the poison about on the uiet. The seed is sown. The good brother never goes to another convention. How About a Remedy? The above description by Brother Walker is undoubtedly true. But we would like to have something besides a negative attitude from those who complain of such evils. Brother Wal- ker does not mention a word of how to avoid or counteract the influence of the union bureaucrats. Has he no idea of the power and possibility of a left wing movement in the railroad unions? Hay he never heard of the Interna tional “‘ommittee for Amalgamation in the Railroad Industry whose activi- ty has set thousands of local unions into opposition to ‘the reactionary bureaucrats? Does Brother Walker imagine a rank and file movement in which each progressive member. is isolated from every other one, fight- ing a lonely and losing battle? That would certainly be no movement at all, What Is A Left Wing? But we suggest to Brother Walker that he think of collective effort in fhe union against the fakers, just as he thinks of collective effort of the workers in a union against the bosses. Why not a left wing movement, or- ganized with local committees in all lodges? A movement with a national executive and a publication, literature and power to see that any brother who is persecuted by these vice-presidents or any other sort of fakers is protect- ed by the whole committee movement which would expose the traitors and by rafsing fighting issues against them everywhere ultimately educate the membership to such a level of class understanding that they are immune from the poison of class collaboration and would stand no autocracy from their servants who assume to be their masters.—Editor, T. U. E. L. Section. THE DAILY WORKER oe —VABROTHERTELLS [AVERAGE WAGE UP; TOTAL WAGE DOWN, IN US.A Don’t Be Deceived by Statisticians By LELAND OLDS (Fe ed Press Industrial Editor) A gain of more than 5 per cent over July, 1924, brought the average week- ly earnings o: tory workers in July, 1925, up to » according to the uv. Ss. department of labor. This is the nea average since 1920 when weekl wages reached a peak at $31.61 ages this July were 18 per cent below that high level. Employment showed a drop of 1.1 per cent compared with June but there were 7.4 per cent moré workers on factory payrolls than in July, 1924, when the first Coolidge depression reached its maximum. This gain, how- ever, means only that big business is stabilizing employment at a low level. The average employment of the first 7 months of 1925 is considerably be- low the same period of 1924. 76 Per Cent Capacity The new low level at which employ- ment is beirig stabilized means little more than % of full-time capacity. Factories ate averaging about 90 per cent of full time for 80 per cent of a full working force. Average weekly earnings are today 88% per cent above July 10 years ago. The figures for July each year since 1916 are: Average Per Capita Weekly Wage in July 1925 $25.82 1920 $31.56 1924 24:53 1919 23,84 19238 25.61 1918 20.08 1922 21.98 1917 16.50 1921. 23.14 1916 = 13.69 The apparent gain of the workers in the purchasing power of wages is more thai’ offset by the speeding-up which is narrowing the number of jobs. The total wage payments to fac- tory workers in July, 1925, were less than 72 per cent of July, 1920. Com- pared with July, 1915, they show an increase of only 53 per cent. Factory owners paid 10 per cent less in total wages in July 1925 than in July 1923. Part Time General More than half of all the establish- ments reporting to the department of labor were operating with less than a normal force and over one-third were operating part time. Only 17 per BRITISH MINORITY CONFERENCE BIG LABOR PROGRESS |683 Delegates Repre- | sented 750,000 ial to The Daily Worker) .—The National Minority Momevent, the definitely revolution- ary left wing of the British unions, held its second annual conference at Battersea Hall on August 29 and 30. The aims and objects of the move- ment are set forth as follows: “1. To organize the working masses of Great Britain for the overthrow of capitalism, ‘the emancipation of the workers from their oppressors and exploiters, and thé establishment of the socialist commonwealth, Class Struggle Program. “2. To carry on a wide agitation and propaganda for the principles of revolutionary class struggle, and to work within the existing organiza- tions of the workers for the purpose of fighting for the adoption of the Program of the National Minority Movement, and against the present tendency towards a false social peace and class collaboration and the delu- sion of a peaceful transition from capitalism to socialism, “3. To unite the workers in their everyday struggles against capital- jism, and at all times to advance the watchword of the united front of the workers against the exploiters. “4. To maintain the closest rela- tions with the Red International of Labor Unions and to work for the unity of the international trade union movement.” Officers and Delegates. The officials are Tom Mann, chair- man; general secretary, Harry Pollitt; general organizing secretary, George Hardy, and treasurer, Geo. Fletcher. The conference was attended by 683 credentialed delegates, with 142 branches in the provinces sending 165, and 41 trades councils sending 82. By industrial groups, the metal workers sent 126 delegates, building workers 103, transport workers 75, general workers’ organizations 33, co-oper- atives 16, miscellaneous trade unions 75, minority groups and shop steward committees 56, and unemployed or- gahizations 45. There were 430 branches, seven district committees and six executive committees rep- resented. Altogether it is reckoned that. 750,000 workers were repre- sented. Tom Mann Stilt Leads Labor. Besides the general organization re- LABOR PARTY, BUILDING UNIONS x cent of the meat packing establish- ments had %@ full force and only 44] Port following the address of the old per cent had fall time. For other im-}¥°rking class fighter, Tom Mann, who ‘portant industries the corresponding opened the conference as chairman of percentages were flour mills 43 per |the movement, the conference heard cent and 36 per cent; cotton goods|TrePports from the special sections, 53 and 61; Woolen, mills 39 and 57; |™iners, transport. workers, building men’s clothing 42 and 70; women’s | Workers, metal workers and general clothing 39 per cent and 63 per cent; | Workers. iron and steel 29 and 50 per cent; Each of these sections have their foundries aiid machine shops 25 and |S$Pecial programs, and the Minority 40; boots and shoes 41 and 51; auto-| Movement as a whole has the follow- mobile plants 32 per cent with normal | !9& among its leading demands: An force and 60 per cent on full time | increase of wages of $5 a week for schedules. The country’s production | @!! existing wage scales with a power exceeds its ability to dispose | minimum of $20 a week. The 44-hour of the products, week for all trades except mining a) ne and a six-hour day for miners. Na- Hatters and Capmakers to Cooperate | tionalization of mines, railways and NEW YORK—(FP)—Cooperation | #ll chief heavy industries, without has taken the place of jurisdictional | Compensation and with workers’ con- disputes between the two leading | trol. Unemployment relief based on unions in the headgear trades. The | Confiscation of idle land and factories new spirit is reflected in the joint labor day message sent out by these two organizations—The United Hat- ters of North America and the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers In- ternational union, LOW WAGES AND SWEATSHOP RULE LOT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKERS, SAYS APPEAL TO LABOR UNIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—The Photographic Workers’ Union No, 17830 has issued a call to all workers urging cooperatitn in their struggle to get better working conditions. B Under the caption of “Help Us Child Labor” the following letter has been sent to pe York City: To All Labor Organizations: The men and women who take and make pictures, who develop plates, films and papers, who finish Kodak prnits, are overworked and under- paid, their jobs are at best insceure; sweat shop and unsanitary conditions prevail in most instances. Their average wage is between $15 and $20 per week, All these things, together with other occupational evils, have had a tendency to greatly undermine = — necessity of international organiza- tee becomes most evident and press- ing. When seamen of all countries are united in one fighting union; when no |ships manned by scabs will be un- loaded by organized longshoremen— only then will our strikes be fully ef- fective. The longer we remain isolat- ed from the revolutionary marine workers of the Red International of Labor Unions, the greater our crime against those who anxiously await a call to be organized. No program for the American seamen can be imagin- ed as having hope of success unless it follows the policies and asserts its unity with the transport workers of the Red International of Labor Unions. pabtiey J. STONE, Secretary, International Marine ers, Amalgamation wl Transport Work- fi Abolish Swedtshop Photography and il labor unions in New ve their strength and individuality, and at the present) moment they are but mere playthings of shifting moods and varying seasons. The purpose of this communication is not only to acquaint you with the facts, but also: to enlist your whole- hearted support in the attainment of our aims. YonoCAN and. MUST give us your assistance, our demands must be made known to your membership, their help seeured and resolutions passed in ourtbehalt. Here are afew items for your im- mediate consideration: 1) Look forthe union placard be- fore patronizing any photographic establishment. 2) Demand the union label, on all Photographs and Kodak prints. 3)" Refrain from handling union photographs, It every solitary member of your organization will respon to this ap- peal, the Photographic Workers’ Union of America, Local No, 17830, will be greatlyistrengthened and the objects for which it is striving, at- tained. non: Fraternally, The Photographic Work: of America, Local No, 17830, Afliated’ With the A, F. of L. ‘ juis A, Baum, Bi 88 Representative. Me with workers’ control. Housing re- lief for workers by requisition of empty houses and intensified work to build new houses for workers. Break With Imperialism. In foreign policy the minority move- ment accents its separation from im- perialist interests by repudiation of the Versailles treaty and the Dawes plan, treaty and trade with Soviet Russia, a trade unionist’to represent England at Moscow, and “Repudia- tion of the conception that the Brit- ish Empire is of any regard to the British workers, and instead, to pledge ourselves to work in close con- nection with the workers of all those countries comprising the empire and assist them in their struggle to over- throw British imperialism.” with the aims and methods of the ™ Page Three MAJOR ISSUES AT MINNESOTA CONVENTION; LAWSON A TRAITOR (By Worker Correspondence.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 14—The Minneapolis Staté Federation of Labor will meet in annual convention at Austin, on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of this month. It is calculated that from 200 to 250 delegates will attend. y i The convention this year holds great promise of being a very interesting session, by reason of the fact that many complex and pressing problems will stare the delegates in the face, which cannot be ignored and sidetracked, but must be squarely faced and dealt with. At the present time the labor movement is in an extremely weakened condition. after cited. This state of labor affairs, has set many earnest workers in the labor movement, to seri- ously concern themselves with the health of labor. But let us state the bad condition existing. Organizations Wrecked. Practically all organizations among the railroad shop crafts have been destroyed, what exists being com- Pany ‘unions. Almost nothing has been done in the state, to cope with this situation among the rail workers. The building trades are also in a very bad way. Outside of Minneapo- lis, St. Paul, and Duluth, the building trades have been wiped out. And in these cities seventy-five per cent of all construction work, is done under open shop conditions. The situation is simply unbearable with respect to these trades. As far as the metal trades are con- cerned, we can say positively that hardly are they organized. Only a handful of these workers are organ- ized out of the’ vast numbers in the trade. The culinary trades are non-exist- ent as far as organization goes. This trade is the most sweated of all Long hours, low wages; intense ex- Ploitation of female workers, are the Prevailing conditions. Laws which ostensibly were made to protect the women and girls, are openly violated. The federation has left this trade to sleep in misery. This is also true in regard to all the miscellaneous trades. No effort is put forward to organize them. It is simply disgraceful to say the least. Steel Workers Ignored. A hundred thousand workers, di- rectly and indirectly, employed in the steel industry, are now, as during the entire tenure of office by Hall and his reactionary cohorts, are complete- ly. without organization. These workers labor for nine and ten hours a day. Their wages are paltry. No safety devices are fur- nished, as the recent accident in a mine near Crosby disclosed, which cost the lives of 40 miners. Moreover, Wm. McEwen, editor of Duluth Labor World, and a member of Hall's reactionary family, as a member of the governor's investigat- ing commission, vindicated the steel trust of all negligence, of all guilt. A fine piece of work indeed. Federation Lacks Vitality. One of the first questions, there- fore, of prime importance to organiz- ed labor, which must be answered, is the scandalous lack of vitality in the federation. There has been a tremendous fall- ing off of membership and a great number of local unions have passed out of existence. The general posi- tion of the federation with respect to its membership and its activity, has never been so low as it is at the present time. E. G. Hall, the president of the federation, and George Lawson, its secretary, together with their ilk, have shown no signs of a program to meet the desperate situation which confronts organized labor. They have absolutely made no effort to organize the unorganized. Not only that, but they as leaders of the federation, have not crossed a single straw to stimu- late the low pulse of the federation. As far as their activity is concerned, in these important phases of the fed- eration, it can be tersely expressed by Numerous resolutions in consonance the word nil Consequently, there is quite a grow- movement were passed at the confer-|ing sentiment against the further de- ence which marked a most con-| teatist leadership of Hall and Law- constructive period in the develop-| gon, whose outlook, such as it is, on ment of revolutionry labor not only| labor problems, has not benefited the for British workers, but for the world | federation, as the record shows, proletariat. This plight of Minnesota labor de- G hy mands a program of organization and Carpenter: education, such as the militant left s to ather wing is presenting to reconstruct the * “Ty: With Building Crafts | decaying organizations. The failure of Hall, Lawson & Co. to deal .with WASHINGTON—(FP)—Among the | these organization problems is suffi- building trade unions which will be of-| cient proof of their utter incompe- ficially represented at the conference | tency to lead the federation, unless in Washington Sept. 22 calied by the| We are to regard the federation as national. board of jurisdictional| their special card reserve. In awards will be the carpenters, who | that case they are highly qualified to for some years have not been affiiat-|T@main at their posts. But not from ed with the building trades depart-|®2Y Constructive labor standpoint. ment of the American Federation of The Labor Party. Labor and have not accepted the|, The labor party is mother issue awards made by this board, that is going to stir the convention. While the most’ conspicuous dispute As is well known, Minnesota labor is engaged in by the carpenters regard- | 098 the pioneers of the labor party. ing jurisdiction is with the sheet | it has definitely committed itself to a metal workers, they have trouble also Tenpe party, at the New Ulm conven: with the lathers and other building tion held in 1918, the federation took trades, The conference has been sum- bi gniebone vif al ster gt ty rhe moned to start settling these ditter-|,, moved That the delegates to ences. the Minnesota State Federation of Labor, in annual convention assem- bled, do hereby declare that they keenly appreciate the urgent neces- your pocket when| sity of united, aggressive and indepen: r union meeting, | dent political action of th | Put a ¢opy of the DATLY WORKER ¢ you go to yi The open shop barrage has left its trail of wrecks, due to causes herein-+— class in order to intelligently and effectively solve the many momentous labor problems growing out of the Present world crisis in government and industry.” This resolution put Minnesota la- bor into the farmer-labor party. It still stands as the position of labor on that question, Hall, Lawson Showed Stripes. It must be remembered in this con- nection, that both Hall and Lawson were opposed to this action by the New Ulm convention of 1918. They did not participate in the delibera- tions on that issue. They didn’t want a labor party, as that group is strong for “rewarding your friends and pun- ishing your enemies,” that is to say, the capitalist parties. They have con- strued this resolution as meaning @ petty bourgeoisie political dabble; They have gutted its proletarian sig- nificance. Since its passage, both Hall and Lawson, as labor lieutenants of capi- talism, have successfully pursued a policy of emasculation, of defeatism. They have sabotaged it to a stand- still. This resolution provided, to use its own terms, “for a permanent political movement of the working class.” Very well. But Hall, Lawson & Co, have seen to it, that no such @ movement would emerge out of the trade unions. As a result of this piece of sabotage, on the part of these misleaders, the resolution is a dead letter today. The Communists are doing their level best to make the the desires of the rank and file, heed- ed by the officials. Hall and Lawson must answer to the convention, for their sabotage of the labor party. The convention un- doubtedly will take proper steps to insure the organization of a labor party whose foundation shall repore in the tradé unions of the state. Be- cause the capitalists and their labor, henchmen are opposed to this kind of, a party, is only the more reason why labor should adopt it. It certainly is? an evil day for labor, when the stands ard of its political and industrial cons! duct is formulated by its natural enee: mies. Election of Officers. The officers of the federation a! going to be elected at this conve! tion for the next two years. It is predicted by labor men herd that Hall and Lawson will have the fight of their pie card careers, to be re-elected. It is pointed out that their failure to meet the problems of the federation, in any sort of way, has demonstrated even to the backward sections, their unfitness to lead. Then there is profound disgust with the manner in which Hall and Lawson have used the official year book, in which they publish scab ads. Even the timid are inflamed with wrath against industrial blackmail. Their sabotage of the labor party is also something that they cannot explain away. Their stewardship of the fed- eration has not rebounded to the wel- fare of the working class. They must go, the progressives declare, who will be on hand to submit constructive measures to build the labor move- ment of Minnesota, MACHINISTS OF DETROIT ANSWER JOHNSTON ORDER DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 14—The machinists of Detroit have given an- other vital blow to the reactionary ad- ministration of “B, and O.” Bill John- ston, president of the International Association of Machinists. At a call meeting of Lodge No. 82, the members in a most decisive way protested against the executive council's expul- sion policy by a vote of 57 to 5, de manding the rescinding of their deci- sion as printed in the official circular No. 183, A committee was elected to draft @ resolution answering the ridicufous charges that “the Workers Party, Trade Union Educational League and The Young Workers League are dual organizations to the International As- sociation of Machinists.” The members of this Lodge are greatly aroused against the present administration. At a recent special call meeting, the recall of the Inter+ national officers was endorsed by @ vote of 90 to 4. ‘ae At the last meeting, William Green, — pree‘dent of the A. F. of L. was also severely criticized for his Labor speech, wherein he attacks the G munists within the trade unions had not outlined any Policy of ‘sing fe unorganised rit fl