The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21

are making this last desperate
on the manufacturers to issue
threats.
There is such strong sentiment
among the workers in favor of this
stoppage that the union officials are
| frightened" says Louis Hyman. They
realize at last that their machine is
tottering and that the workers instead
of being impressed by their terror
istic methods are all prepared to defy
hem.
I'VE have 10 meeting halls already
engaged, and we are trying to find
five more. If the Joint Board and the
employers want to turn this two-hour
stoppage into a permanent strike let
them try to carry out their threats
and see what happens"
How the garment workers are meet
ing the united front of the Sigman
gang and the bosses may be seen by
the following resolution Of the dress
makers of Local %:
Resolution Of Dressmakers.
I'VE, the dressmakers of Local %,
assembled at a general membership
meeting in Webster hall on Tuesday,
Aug. Is. adopt the following resolu-
tons:
Whereas, the clique of the Joint
Board and the international, together
with a few discredited members Of our
local. are now carrying thru fake
election for new executive board
and manager of our local, without our
consent and in the face of our most
outspoken opposition; and
Whereas, thru this fake election
they aim to take possession of the
records and the property of our local,
in order to terrorize the membership
for their loyalty to our struggle for a
union controlled by the rank and file,
and to force them to recognize and
pay dues to the discredited Joint
Board; therefore be it
Resolved, that we most emphatica-
ally condemn this fake election which
is intended to force the membership
to submit to the autocratic rule of
the Joint Board machine; and declare
this act OF calling this fake election
against the will of the membership
disgrace to the labor movement.
1--WE hereby declare that we shall
not recognize, nor have anything to
do with the fake executive board and
manager, and call upon the entire
membership of our local to do like
wise.
THE only officers of our local rec
ognized by the dressmakers are the
members of the executive board and
the manager whom we have legally
elected and to whom we have given
our most loyal support in the present
struggle.
Warn Bosses, Hands OIL"
1--WE give our most hearty approval
to the Joint Committee of Action. of
which our executive board is a part,
for it's prompt and courageous action
in arranging two-hour stoppage in
our industry on Thursday, Aug. 20, at
8 p. m, as warning to the employ
ers not to take advantage of our in
ternal struggle to undermine our union
standards; (2) to force our employers
to keep out of this struggle; 60 to
,, compel the officials Of the Joint Board.
who have long been repudiated by the
members. to leave our union; ca to
| lecide on a general stoppage in our
industry should the Joint Committee
of Action deem this necessary.
I'VE pledge ourselves as one man
to cease work at the call OF the Joint
Committee OF Action, and to remain
on strike until the united front OF the
discredited oficialdom OF the Joint
Board and the bosses has been broken,
and our struggle for a strong and
militant union. able to defend the in.
terests Of our membership has been
crowned with success"
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