Denver labor bulletin., 1915-03-06

A call for conference OIL representa-
tiyes of local unions of the Journeymen
Tailors Union of America to meet in
Chicago, March 81, has been issued by
a committee of Chicago Local No. 8.
This is a movement to rescue the old
and once militant organization from the
wreckers who have recently been in con-
troll. The call for the meeting is as
follows:
To all local unions and individual mem
bers greeting.
Local Union No. of Chicago issues
this call to the local unions interested
to devise ways and means of maintain
ing the integrity of the j. t. U. of A,
realizing that it is imperative at this
time on account of recent action of the
general secretary and part of the G. E.
b. in connection with the vote taken
on amalgamation with the seeding fac
tions of the Garment Workers, in not al
lowing sufficient time to consider the
proposition, and the misleading manner
in which it was presented to the mem
bership, and the Tailor" being published
two times in one week SO as to not give
opportunity to any opposition, numerous
protests and request for another vote
have been ignored. The constitution is
a secondary consideration, in place OF
enforcing the laws. The g. E. B. vio-
late the law, Sec. $50. Chairman Werdes
has been employing himself as general
organizer in violation of that section.
The T. l. u. I. also have in their em-
ploy an expelled member of the United
Garment Workers as assistant editor,
William Block, to say nothing OF the
organizers that are not tailors. The
7. 1. u. I. contributed to st. Louis pa
per, the New Unionist," $40 per month
for over one year to slander labor Of
ficials and other organizations. The
support was withdrawn after protest
from Local No. s.
Now we find that the official organ,
the "Tailor," is to be published in New
York and paid for at the rate of five
cents per member to the amalgamated.
Schlossberg, editor in chief, who has
authorized such mover 1t has been inn
possible for any member or local union
to get anything published in the "Tai-
1or" that would in any way criticize the
officials actions, but you will notice
that the editor has been quite lavish in
his remarks of the poor, ignorant, spine
less Jour. that knows nothing but
work. Surely we can not all become
progressive and secure $50 per week and
expenses; militancy pays for some in
dividuals Mr.. Brais and Mr.. Hillman
have stated that they would not organ
ize on any label base, as that is obso-
lete, not progressive. but we find that at
the last G. e. B. tJanuary 3I) meeting
10000 journeymen tailors' labels were
issued to Rochester, N. ", garment
worker, and application for $4,000 to
Boston.
BY whose authority can the Garment
Workers use the Journeymen Tailors
label? This merely proves our conten-
ton that the amalgamation is a clean
cut sell out of the T. /. U. J., J. T. U
of A, and gentlemanly way of reliev-
ing the union of its funds. And the
often-repeated remarks of General Sec.
retary Brais: "To h with the small
unions, they do not amount to anything
anyway. We are after bigger game"
Therefore we earnestly ask all local
unions interested in tie journeymen tai.
lor and the maintenance of the J. I. U
of A, to send one OF your members tc
represent your local. each local union
defraying the expenses of their represen
tative.
Conference to meet in Chicago on the
9th day of March, 10 o'clock a. M, al