. The National Civic Federation review . ould haveon a matter of such grave importance and re-sponsibility, for in but very few instances, ifany, had there ever been a publicly announcedreferendum vote taken, in which the word strikewas involved, that did not carry meetings of the campaign committee werelargely guided by the reports made to it by thesecretary of the campaign committee. For sev-eral meetings previous to the one in which itwas decided to send out the strike vote themajority of (hose who assembled at these meet-ings were the paid secretaries and field menworking
. The National Civic Federation review . ould haveon a matter of such grave importance and re-sponsibility, for in but very few instances, ifany, had there ever been a publicly announcedreferendum vote taken, in which the word strikewas involved, that did not carry meetings of the campaign committee werelargely guided by the reports made to it by thesecretary of the campaign committee. For sev-eral meetings previous to the one in which itwas decided to send out the strike vote themajority of (hose who assembled at these meet-ings were the paid secretaries and field menworking under the orders and control of theauthor of this malicious edition. Whatever hereported to the committee was a signal for thosefield men and secretaries to attest to. Underthese conditions he was practically master ofthe situation. This me too system did notappeal to the officials of the Amalgamated As-sociation very strongly, and as a result theywere not regarded with much favor, and inmany instances their position on important ques-. PRES. M. F. TIGHE tions given but little consideration. * * * It has been shown, First, that the charge ofintentional desertion from the campaign com-mittee by the Amalgamated Association was adeliberate falsehood, conceived with maliciousintent and as an afterthought to sensationalizethe authors work sufficient to make it a sale-able article. Second, that because the officialsof the Amalgamated would not allow them-selves to become mere pawns for him and hissecretaries and field men to move as they sawfit, the Amalgamated became the target of ven-omous and malignant attacks largely centeredon Assistant President Davis, who as a memberof the campaign committee, at all times actingunder the advice of the writer and the Inter-national Executive Board, insisted that the cam-paign be conducted on legitimate trade unionlines, and not on lines suggestive of the methodsadvocated and practiced by Syndicalists andI. W. W. organizations. * * * While the
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