THE MILITANT Saturday, May 17, 1980.
Page Hillman Recordfor Toronto ITROTSKY BOOK FREE!
slaves. Convention and intellectual boosters know anything about it?
The ninth biennial convention will be held in May, in Toronto, Canada. What are the achievements the Amalgamated can show for the last few years? The publicity agents, the pen slaves, will do their It is now over five years since the Moreover, letters can be seen daily in best for their masters. They will show Right wing has been in complete control in the Right wing press, the Forward and the the wonders the Amalgamated has done in the Amalgamated. Have conditions of the Day, about the intolerable conditions piece the Philadelphia campaign and the unenworkers been improved. No! Conditions work brought to the workers. will quote ployment insurance which Hillman union Do you want to get a copy, free in New York are worse today than ever. one hall of a letter. was a long time a brought the workers for the last few years, charge, of My Life by Leon Trotsky? bro The clothing workers work under the most member of the Amalgamated. lot of Let us examine the Philadelphia situation you want to get the book which is arous inhuman conditions. Hillman went a step workers know me well. was one of the first.
ing such enormous interest in the revolufurther than standards of production. and best workers and carned a good living.
What have the workers gained since tionary movement in Europe and America. reductions in wages. With the aid of local But when the union began her business politicians he forced piece work on the ventures, and neglected the union, could The Amalgamated press and the boosters the Amalgamated came into Philadelphia? Many workers anxious to have it are upemployed. They can get it in spite of that.
New York tailors, although tho workers no longer make a living, and had to leave could not show what the workers gained.
The Militant is offering a copy free to any rejected it at meetings. The liberal and New York, When was in thiladelphia met a for worker who turns into its oflice TEN yearly socialist press hailed this nove as a vic Now am in a small town of 1, 000 mer manager of the Amalgamated in a subscriptions or TWENTY six month subtory for the workers.
inhabitants, only Gentiles. am the only restaurant, for the last few year amancriptions to the paper. Approach your The Times not long ago carried an arJew. If were in New York today, with ager for the clothing manufacturers. He friends and fellow workers. The Jub for ticle by Louis Stark: Amalgamnted union the Amalgamated, would surely be in the took an active part in the Amalgamated a year is 00; for six months it is 00.
and employers celebrate this week the sucsame position and would need relier for campaign in Philadelphia and made a dollar Collect the subs and the money, forward cess of the Impartial machinery which has Passover. am very sorry that they made or two. asked him how it was possible them to the office and get your copy of the improved Industrial relations and seltled a beggar out of the tailor. The Day, to organize the Philadelphia market. He Autobiography, which has been called rotdisputes.
March 20, 1930. These facts prove what answered The Amalgamated spent over sky greatest work, absolutely free of Hitman Kind of Labor Unity Hillman and his henchmen made out of a million dollars and we made the workers charge. This 00 book is yours for the the Amalgamated under their regime. Hill join the union. asked hin what have the little effort required to get the subs or Next Wedneday evening the New York man not only destroyed the best of the workers gained by it? He answered again, renewals.
Clothing Manufacturer xchange will be workers in the Amalgamated, he destroyed Fool, don you know the Amalgamated host at a dinner to about 1, 000 engaged in its very soul.
must convince the employers it will the manufacturing of men clothing, leadthem to deal with the union? asked ing officers of the Amalgamated Clothing The only ones who are making a living him, How will the Amalgamated get back OR YOU CAN GET FREE COPY OF Workers of America and a group of distin in the Amalgamated today are the stall, the the money they spent? Through dues and guished guests interested in human relations editors and the boosters (I mean the pen taxes, he answered. Now understand Tire Real Situation in industry.
what the workers in Philadelphia gained. The dinner will celebrate the fifth The outside world and the intellectuals the check off system, speed up and efficiency Russia anniversary of the founding of the impartial still consider the Amalgamated a radical which will throw a few hundred workers This book is also available free of machinery of the men clothing industry and progressive organization. Where do out of the shops.
in New York under the chairmanship of they get their information. They go to charge to all workers. Here you will find Jacob Billikoff, economist, social worker Junches, and dinners given by the employWhat about unemployment insurance the. nly Englisa translation of the famous and pioneer in industrial relations.
ers in conjunction with the union officials.
Well, unemployment insurance is a good Platf rm of the Russian Opposition, supthing but the way it is conducted in the pressed by Stalin, and Trotsky letter ex Without strikes or lockouts the im They interview Hillman, Billikoff, the presAmalgamated 10 is only of use to the crooks, posing the falsifications of the History of partial machinery, sometimes called a lab ident of the Clothing Manufacturers Exchange, etc.
not the majority of the workers.
oratory of human understanding. bas funcThis is how they get their will the Russian revolution and the Communist tioned smoothly and efficiently because the information. Then they edit journals and cite a fact and let the pen prostitutes of Party. You will also find here the imthe Amalgamated deny it. In New York, portant Testament of Lenin. It is a 00 union bas embraced the labor view of con claim they give their readers facts, that each local received a sum of money to book but you can get it free from the structive rights and responsibilities to in they are the authorities on labor problems.
dustry and because the employers have also on research work.
pay out to the workers in unemployment militant by turning in yearly subscripHow can these insurance. So Harry Cohen gang received tions (at 00 each) or 10 six inonth subs welcomed such a constructive cooperation. people give facts when they were never in 000. They paid out 5, 000 to all the a shop, and never investigated conditions. at 00 each. Rrewals are accepted. The discussion on the Westion of workers and took 3, 000 for themselves, piece work continued for three years dur These professors or economisty merely reDo you see how smoothly things work in ing the course of which the inadequacies of peat what one person, Hillman told them the system of production standards became when they dined together. At least they the Amalgamated? These are the achievements with which the union comes to the apparent to both sides. year and a hall should go into a few shops and interview WE ALSO OFFER FREE COPY Toronto convention.
ago the union consented to the revolution employers and workers alike. If not they ary step of going on a piece work basis. ought to go into different union offices Hillman comes to the Toronto convenSince Lenin Died (See the New York Times, Special Features, where workers assemble, talk to them, tion when thousanls of workers are sufferThis book by Max Eastman was the first December 1, 1929. hear their grievances and sentiments. This ing from unemployment. The best workers work in the English language to tell the This article by Louis Stark shows that would call facts and research. Otherwise have been expelled or squeezed out through truth about the struggle in the Russian the Amalgamated officers together with the they deceive their readers when they say Hillian efficiency. There will be no Communist Party between the Opposition employers celebrated the victory they had they give them facis. This stuff they give opposition at this convention because all led by Trotsky, on the one hand, and Zinachieved at the expense of the workers. their readers is fake, not facts.
opposition was crushed by Hillman and oviev, Kamenev, Bucharin, Stalin on the Yes, the Amalgamated doesn believe in Did Hillman ever tell his publicity agents policy or none at all.
because the Left wing had either a bad other. You will have an excellently drawn strikes any more. The impartial machinery about corruption and graft that is going on picture of the beginings of this fight after works smoothly and efficiently. This is true.
in his organization? few months ago No opposition, except the rivalry be reading this book. The Militant has sucFor whom? For the bosses! Yes, the Hillman removed Harry Cohen with his tween Beckerman and the Forward gang on ceeded in getting the last few dozon copies employers have welcomed Hillman congang for taking graft. Hillman just disthe one hand and the Hillman machine on of this book, of which no other edition structive cooperation. It pays the employthe other.
covered that Harry Cohen is a crook, The serious business of the exists. It has been sent to us from Engers. agree with Louis Stark when he convention is to be a new balance of powland, the American edition being exhausted.
mentioned with quotations (see last Milsaid Hillman union consented to the er between these rivals.
itnat) from the Advance that Cohen was It sells for 00, but you can get it free of revolutionary step of going on a piece work tried and condemned by a committee for taWhat can the workers expect from this charge by turning in yearly subs (at basis. Have the workers given their conking checks. Who took Cohen back convention? Nothing! The boys and their 00 each) or six month subs (at 00 sent? No! What the employers could not into the Amalgamated to sell out the workguests will have a good time at the expense each. get when they fought the Amalgamated for er! Hillman took him back. Cohen of the tailors, playing whoopee, banqueting 26 weeks in 1921, they got through HillIt is the after convention sold cotton and unionism to the clothing and boozing. man good will and constructive leadership.
manufacturers. Nevertheless, without reperiod that is important for that is It is no wonder that Hillman gets medals turning to the trade, Cohen was installed when the Left wing will again be confrom capitalist institutions while the workSend All Subscriptions and Fands to once more on the union payroll within a fronted with the need of organizing for the ers get matzohs for Passover, short period after the Chicago Convention.
fight. Let the lessons of the past be our The Militant Not long ago saw a circular sent During the Cohen attair in 1921 Hillman at guide to the future. A, SCHNEIDER 25 Third Avenue, New York City out to the clothing workers by the three a meeting in Manhattan Lyceum said, largest local unions, 5, and 2, signed by Cohen can never come back into the orthe secretaries and local officers. In the THE ganization without stepping over my dead WEEK nobody will pay the penalty for the barbarcircular they stated, Brothers, arise! do body. Schlossberg said he would resign ous murder. Lynching is not only the apnot stand aside. movement to lift the before he would sign pay checks for Continued from page 1)
proved extra legal method of the Bourtailor from his deplorable conditions began Cohen. You can see how they kept their Hughes, a Negro, in the local court house bon South, but also of democratic Massathrough the united three Jewish Executive promise. Are they doing it for principle?
Boards. The time is not far distant when chusets and pioneer Washington. George, After seven years of taking graft and vault. Like the National Guard and State Hughes, Wesley Everest, Sacco and Vanour trade will be lifted up again to the helping to destroy the New York organizaMilitiamen in other states, the Texas Ranzetti are all victims of an identcal capextent that we could with pride recall the tion, Harry Cohen was again removed with ger are always available at a moment italist justice. The greater brutality of the name Amalgamated in the city of New his state for taking graft. Cohen ig notice, with pistols, machine guns and tear South is provoked by the anxiety of the York. We need your help and cooperation. pored the summons and did not appear bombs, to charge into the ranks of workers Southern bourgeoisie to keep the Negroes These local unions have been controlled before the committeo. The question is, striking or fighting for a minimum living terrorized in order to prevent them from by the Right wing for the last few years why did not Hillman try these grafters? standard. That is what they exist for the cxpordinating their enormous potential since Tillman began his expulsion policies. The answer must be that willman did not defense of bosses law and the order strength for the overthrow of wage slavThese local officers helped Hillman to force want the ontside world and those intel of capitalism. But when bloodthirty mon ery. Better than the white worker, the on the workers the piece work system. lectuals to know how much dirt there is sters are on a lynching bee. the law white masters know the Negro can be out These charlatans who are responsible for in the Amalgamated. Cohen left enough abiding Rangers if they are on hand at strongest ally in struggle. common the present conditions because they helped grafters in the union to go on with their all excercize their book sworn duty by bitter struggle of white and Negro labor Hillman to bring about these miserable work without fear. Hardman, the pen seeing that the savage mob conducts the against the horror of lynching and Jin conditions, ask the tailors for help and slave, writes about cleanliness in the Amal. lyncing in as quict and undisturbed a. rowism therefore, is imperatively necesronpratoon gamated. Can you beat it? Do the liberal manne as possible Needless to add that sary.