The evening world., 1920-12-09
$4,000 CLOTHING
WORKERS FORM
ONE BIG UNION
New Needle Trades Alliance
VIII Act on Lockout
and Strike.
FUR MAKERS INCLUDED.
Will Fight to Retain Advant-
ages Won in Previous Tie
Ups of Industry.

the Needle Trades Alliance ot
America, on organization represent
ing 3s5.OOO workers in all parts or
this country engaged In the making
Of clothes and furs for men and
women, was brought into existence
to-day at u meeting at the Hotel
McAtpire Whether tlIis Is TO be an
industrial rather than a trade alli-
apce mono Of the delegates to the
meeting would say, but &c was ad-
United that within q short time the
strike OF the fnrrians and tho lock-
out OF the clothing workers are TO
bs taken uD for consideration.
Al ths meeting there were five dele
-ates eaah from the following orSaIl-
nations: Tho International Ladies'
Garment Makers. with a membership
OF $4,000; the Anlalgamhted Clothing
Workers of America, whose member
zni1 Is 200. 900; the international Fur
Workers Union, $4,000: the Journey
man TaiIorS Union. $4,000, and the
United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers of
North America $1,000.
The delegates 10 the meeting were
selected at tho annual nonvent1ons o.
the several bodies last sunln6r and
were granted flIu powers 70 effect the
organization which came today. 1t
Is the FIRST time that practically all
The needle-~orCSinE trades have been
joined IN one body.
These permanent OHiceTE were
siected: Benjamin SdhlesSsnEsr'
President of tho IadleS' Garment
Workers Union. Chairman: Thomas
Sweeney. General Secretary or The
Journeyman Tailors. Vice Chairman:
Max Zuckerman, SGcrctary o' the
Hat and Cap Makers. Secretary.
One of the American Federation Of
Labor organizations. tho United Gar
ment Workers, makers OF mems
clothing, refused to join In tho al
liance. The two chlef factors OF the
new organization arc the Interna-
uonal ladies' Garment Workers,
which is a member OF the A. ). Of l.,
end the AmnlEtmated Clothing
Workers Of America, which Is not in
the A. T. OF L.
p. Schlessinger, who returned o. :Ais
country recently after visit 70 Nos
cow where Il was said, no had sew
sral interviews with Len!ne, an
nounced this afternoon that each Of
The organizations in the new alliance
would preserve its autonomy, and
that the standing Of any Of then, IN
the A. T. Of L would not be affected.
The new chairman. who las been
working toward this alliance since
1916, said that the reason for the uaw
body was that al Of it's component
organizations had grown up from the
old swcat-shop system ana through
their unions had been able To- Improve
conditions. He said that they wanted
TO make IL difficult tor any employers
20 broa AdOwn the conditions which
mad been brought about by the long
fight.
Mr.. Schlesstngcr pointed ou. that
Z over an emergency arose in which
thg five internatlOnalS would Oe in
No,vtd they would he able To con
Irol the workers end Of the situation
bv the fact that they all are zone
hundred" unions, or in other words,
that all workers fn their respective
llnes we're union members. lie also
said that later the DELEGATES woulq
probably discuss an arrangement
whereby members OF one union who
were idle and were capable or doing
work in another union might 1e
given necessary permission 10 40 ~
as long as their previous nOn-cm-
ployment lasted.