New-York tribune., 1920-12-10
New Needle Trades ALI
ance Unites With Anal
gamated, Charging Plot
to Revive the Sweatshop
Expect to Enlist
With the A. F. OIL,
Leaders Hope Unions viii
Soon Be Formed Into
One Big International

The conflict between the Amalpa.
mated Clothing Workers of Americs
and the Clothing Manufacturers As.
sociation Of New York assumed ma.
tion-wide aspect yesterday when twcn.
ty-tlvc delegates representing five in.
ternational organizations in the need]e
trSdes met at the Hotel McAlpin ano
formed Needle Trades Alliance, with
total membership Of 100000 workers
Almost the first act performed by
the new organization was to adobt q
resolution throwing it's support to the
side of the Amalgamated and charging
that the clothing manufacturers in this
city were engaged in an effort "to
throw back the industry to the ole
sweatshop system"
The new Needle Trades Alliance con-
sists Of the international Ladies Car
ment Workers Union, with a member
ship OF 10000; the Amalgamated d
Workers Of America, 100000; the In,
ternational Fur Workers Union. 12, 900;
the Journeymen Tailors' Union, $4,000
AID the United Cloth and Cap Makers
Of North America, $1,000. The United
Garment Workers, who we're also in
vitel to enter the new alliance, declined
to do so on the ground that the Anal
ganated was not an American Fedora
ton Of Labor organization. The United
Garment Workers and the Amalga-
mated have been at loggc rheads for
several years because Of jurisdictional
dispute.
Will Ask to Enter A. T. of l..
The other four organizations entering
into the alliance nre affiliated with the
A. F. of L. 1t is understood an effort
will be made to obtain the admission OF
the new alliance as body into the
federation, thus making possible the
healing Of the standing conflict be-
tween the Alnlagamated and the feder-
alton over the United Garment Workers
The officers Of the new alliance are
Benjamin Schlesinger, president Of the
International Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, chairman; Thomas Sweeney, sec
rotary Of the Journeymen Tailors, vice
chairman, and Max ZuckeYman, secre-
tary of the Cloth, Hat and Cap Makers,
secretary.
plans Of organization was appointed
The committee, which will report at a
meeting at the Hotel McAlpin this
morning, consists Of Morris Sigmund,
vice-president of the International La
dies Garment Workers. Union; Mr.
Sweeney, Morris Kaufman, president
Of the furricrs; Max Zaritsky. pres-
dent o+ the cap makers, and Sidney
Condemn Action of ClothicrS
The following resolution was adopted
by the alliance in support of the Anal
gamated in its confic. with the manu-
tacturers' associations:
We, the delegates representing the
International Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America, the Journeymcn
Tailors' Union, international Fur WorL-
ers' Union. United Cloth, Hat and Cap
Makers Union, with total membership
Of 100000, assembled at the Hotel Nc
Alpin for the purpose OF forming q
needle trade alliance, recognize that
the clothing manufacturers Of New
York and Boston have declared war On
the clothing workers of these cities by
breaking relations with the unions,
summarily dismssing the impartial
chairman and destroying the machinery
for government in industry, hoping
thereby to bring about a return to the
sweatshop system. We do hereby con-
denim the action of the manufacturer rs
as move calculated to destroy the or
Continued or pags tsn)