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February 15, 1927
The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
What is this article about?
Two Fancy Leather Goods Workers members fined $25 each for attending left-wing meetings instead of right-wing mass meetings organized by Sigman-Beckerman and Company, amid Abraham Shiplacoff's attacks on workers. Meanwhile, charges against a graft-accused shop chairman, a Shiplacoff ally, were dismissed.
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SHIPLACOFF GETS
MILITANTS FINED,
BUT NOT GRAFTER
Two Who Attended Left
Meetings Persecuted
Because they refused to support Abraham Shiplacoff in his attack against the workers in the local needle trades, two members of the Fancy Leather Goods Workers have been fined $25 each.
The charges against them was that instead of attending the mass meetings held in the 69th and 71st armories by Sigman-Beckerman and Company, they had gone to one of the seventeen halls where the left wing workers had gathered to counteract the right wing maneuvers.
Graft is O.K.
While the grievance committee was eager to fine militant members of their organization they quickly squashed charges brought against a shop chairman by one of the workers who claimed the chairman had accepted fifty dollars from the boss so the latter could violate the trade agreement. This shop chairman is one of Shiplacoff's henchmen and had to be protected while the two workers had to be punished for opposing the union wrecking policy that the right wing administration of the union is pursuing.
MILITANTS FINED,
BUT NOT GRAFTER
Two Who Attended Left
Meetings Persecuted
Because they refused to support Abraham Shiplacoff in his attack against the workers in the local needle trades, two members of the Fancy Leather Goods Workers have been fined $25 each.
The charges against them was that instead of attending the mass meetings held in the 69th and 71st armories by Sigman-Beckerman and Company, they had gone to one of the seventeen halls where the left wing workers had gathered to counteract the right wing maneuvers.
Graft is O.K.
While the grievance committee was eager to fine militant members of their organization they quickly squashed charges brought against a shop chairman by one of the workers who claimed the chairman had accepted fifty dollars from the boss so the latter could violate the trade agreement. This shop chairman is one of Shiplacoff's henchmen and had to be protected while the two workers had to be punished for opposing the union wrecking policy that the right wing administration of the union is pursuing.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime Story
Deception Fraud
What themes does it cover?
Deception
Crime Punishment
Justice
What keywords are associated?
Union Fines
Militant Persecution
Graft Protection
Needle Trades
Left Wing
Right Wing
Shiplacoff
What entities or persons were involved?
Abraham Shiplacoff
Sigman Beckerman
Shop Chairman
Where did it happen?
69th And 71st Armories, Seventeen Halls
Story Details
Key Persons
Abraham Shiplacoff
Sigman Beckerman
Shop Chairman
Location
69th And 71st Armories, Seventeen Halls
Story Details
Two union members fined for attending left-wing meetings opposing Shiplacoff's right-wing policy; graft charges against aligned shop chairman dismissed.