The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1926, Page 7

- Burin o Second Section: THE DAILY This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1926 With Rubber a By Maurice Becker WORKER. Ee 290 Dollar a Pound —y WHERE IS THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES? Open Strike-Breaking by Cahan, Green & Co. NEW YORK fur workers wrote a big chapter in the book of organ- ized labor last Thursday, when an offensive of the fur manufac- turers, the police and the Jewish Daily Forward gangsters to demo- ralize the strike in the fur market, was met and defeated by a demon- stration that will long be remembered in labor history.. The reac- tionary international officials of the Fur Workers’ Union thought. to accomplish the demoralization of the striking New York local by calling the rank and file strikers into Carnegie Hall, excluding the strike leaders, and there have Mr. William Green or his substitute? Hugh Frayne, plead the cause of the bosses under cover of official position in the A. F. of L. We have seen this game played before, The. writer. recalls: an instance when it was worked in the coal fields by the Pennsyl- vania Coal company’s agents who called “strike meetings,” excluded the strike leaders and had the company’s flunkeys, with an im-| ported “labor skate” or two, take charge of the strike. Tt worked then, but not this time. Ben Gold, general manager of the. joint board and in official charge of the strike, was not permitted to enter the meeting, b ’ Carnegie Hall, which was called for the purpose of ‘delive death-blow at the strike. Hugh Frayne, the dirty-work “man dt William etic was oot on thé nner to address the mepting: Dt But the spontaneous roars of the fur workers for Ben Gold prevented the meeting from proceeding. Frayne and the Beckerman gang had to be content with making a statement to the capitalist press show- ing their intention to break the strike, and having the central labor body withdraw its endorsement of the strike. But in spite of gangsters and police, Frayne and his aids were compelled to give up the meeting by the demonstration of the workers. What is the meaning of the event? More and more we see the teactionary union officials and socialist party leaders acting as the open disrupters of unions and the breakers of strikes. Berry in the printing trades, Lee and others in the railroad unions, Lewis, Far- rington and company in the United Mine Workers, function more and more exclusively as the breakers of strikes‘ and destroyers of unions. And at the same time we see more frequently the leadership of strikes in the hands of the left wing. This means that more and more frequently the rank and file of the unions see illustrated be-’ fore their eyes the true character of the, right wing trade union bureaucracy as agents of the capitalist class. Closer comes the time when the labor movement will be freed of its scareeciae and won for the: real. interests of the workers. ‘ 1 | * The fur cworkers of New York made a proud record Thuraday. Let them aig their backs and win the usin g g® i o} # 4