The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-29
PRIME COMP ANY
GOES into court
FOR INJUNCTION
Boston Upholsterers Tie
Up Plant
BY S. WlNoKuR
worker Corresponding

the upholstererSS at the Prime plant
now enters the third month with the
company in the courts attempting to
get an injunctiontsout against the
striking workers Mr.. Rosenberg, at
torney for the bosses, is desperate in
his attempt to getsthe injunction as
tho an Injunction will upholster
couches, chairs, eto.s
Demand Union Recognition.
The strike in the Prime plant was
called in the north of October, when
member of Local No. 81 or the Up
holsterers' Union Vas fired from his
job. The union demanded that the dis.
charged worker be reinstated. The
company refused and strike was
called. When the Shop was pulled
out" the local made demand on the
company that the firm recognize the
Upholstery Workers Union.
Union Head Betrays Workers.
This firm, whiebswas running open
shop for number of months at one
time was a union shop. It became a
non-union shop last January following
the betrayal of the union by its Inter-
national Vice-President Graves and the
business agent of Local No. 81, who
signed an agreement with the bosses
following the strike Of September,
1924, that the union workers would go
back to work at the union price basis,
but that the workers in this shop
would not have any representation in
Local 81. This betrayal of the union
by its head was the first step that led
this firm into the open shop column.
Four Shops Settle.
After the Prime plant had been on
strike two days. "a strike was called
in four other shops, the Common
wealth, Kay, Klein and Hutcher
plants. The Kay was the first shop
to settle and theyother three followed
within few daysoThese shops agreed
to the following demands of the
union: Ysbe
l., Recognitionbof the union.
g. Strictly union conditions.
3. Improvement of sanitary condi-
tions. ~
4. No secondhand material be used
to perform work. ~
At the Upholsterers' International
Union conventiono held in Chicago
Graves made accusations that the
Communists weres disrupting Local 81
Of Boston, becausesthey fought his pol
icy of getting together" with the
bosses and betraying the union mem
bership. y ~
International Refuses Help.
The general executive board of the
international unioni which sanctioned
the strike has not ogiven the strikers
any help as yet. sWhen Cohen, the
international president, was in Boston,
to investigate" the strike situation,
he was asked by one of the left
wingers, C. Freedman, who is also
vice-president of Local 81, what he
intended to do His answer was moth
ing" He claimed that the general
executive council could not act and
that all he would do is to credit the
local on the account it owes the in
ternational. This was the encourage
ment given by an international presi-
dent to a group of striking workers!
Levy go Assessment.
When the members of the union
saw that with the Resistance" which
the president offered that the strike
could not be wops they voted an so
assessment which has been reduced
to so, since there rs but one shop on
strike. 1t is because of the militancy
of the young left wipgers in the union
that he strike in the shop continues
with the strikers c5nhdent that they
will win and force the Prime plant
to accept all OF thes union conditions.
Graves Mpst Col
The demand that Graves must go
is gaining more apd more momentum
as the left wing SEpws up the dis
ruptive tactics that,this henchman OF
the bosses is usinA n the union. One
of the bitterest opponents of this re-
dictionary is the ydllfg militant fighter
in the executive board, c. Freedman.
1t is thanks to the information that
Graves furnished the International
it is thanks to hiss betrayals in the
strike of September 1924 it is thanks
to his activities that today the Prime
shop is an open shop. The member
ship at last realize who Mr.. Graves
is, and their verdict is--he must 60!
Graves, who has seen the militants
in the union gaining more and more in
strength as his betrayals are brought
into the light OF day. and fearing that
he will soon be kicked out of office,
has announced that he will resign in
a few days.
Make Fighting Unit.
His announcement should not salts.
fy the left wing. They should fight
and work to get every union official
who wants to play the bosses game
out of the union and make the union
a real fighting unit for the upholstery