The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-13
Next Steps and Prospects
in Garment Workers. Fight


up in the struggle with full force"
their assistance can only have effect
on the following conditions: First,
that the unity should not be mechani-
cal but real; and second, that the
leaders of the groups should have not
a partial following of their locals but
a complete one.
5resau Cannot Deliver.
Those two conditions, however, are
impossible of accomplishment. No
real unity, for instance, is possible
between Breslau and Sigman. And it.
is also sure that as much power as
the Breslau group may have, all of
that power cannot be delivered thru
the group.
The struggle against the pogrom
leaders has until now also drawn in
quite a part of the membership of the
'loyaP locals. In the pressers' as we'll
as the cutters locals, the membership
has ceased to keep quiet as hereto
fore. They have lifted their heads
and are speaking, protesting and de-
handing. There are hundreds OF or
ganized cutters and pressers who are
daily in the first lines of the masses
in the struggle against the machine.
They are the vanguard of the fighters.
Trouble Ahead for BresIau.
Under such conditions it will not
be easy for Breslau and his colleagues
to deliver from their locals all that
they might wish to. And there can
not be doubt that if they will make
the attempt to throw the whole power
of their locals into the struggle on the
side of the pogrom leaders, that will
provoke shaking-up in those locals
themselves. The chiefs of the Bres-
lau group then will need to seek as
sistance from others rather than be
able to give assistance to other politi-
clans.
And just so. can the assistance of
the bosses in the season not have
greater value than they give now to
the Slgman machine. In the first place
they cannot scare the cloakmaker
with the bundle any more. The treach-
erous maneuvers of the Sigman ma
chine have brought the trade to such
bad conditions for the workers that
the cloakmakers feel already that with
silence they will not gain any bun
dies. e.s
Bundles Poor Argument.
And when he does receive bundles
he cannot make living at it. The
suppressed voices of the workers are
raising higher and higher. The pres
ent revolt against the machine has
also come as an expression of protest
againt the begging conditions to
which the cloakmakers were misIed.
The present revolt is an outcry
against the wounds which have been
inflicted upon the workers.
The cry is against the bundles
which are made in slack times in all
kinds of scab and cooperation shops,
and 1T comes because of the better
conditions in the union shops being
abolished so that they cannot even
earn the most necessary things for
their livelihood.
This revolt is a cry of pain against
those who have forced the workers
to suffer in silence, against those who
have made this brutal pogrom simply
because the more conscious of the
workers have dared to raise this cry
and not choke in silence.
Secondly, we can say the follow.
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Bosses Will Suffer,
If the bosses in the season will at
tempt to hurt the workers with the
bundles they will without a doubt pay
dearly for it. A strike against the
boss, against machine terror is
much stronger weapon then, then
strike in slack time. The workers
will not be short of pickets as long as
the struggle lasts, even in the busy
season. And the bosses will certainly
not get any JOY out of these pickets at
that time.
1t seems that the figure ito hurt
the cloakmakers with bundles" will
have to be discounted. Sigman will
apparently very soon find out the mis-
take in his figures.
Members Are Set On Victory.
The saving of the Sigman CLIQUE
can only come if the cloak and dress.
makers should themselves weaken
their struggle. But this is impossible
to imagine. The struggle OF the cloak
and dressmakers is not an accident;
1t is a revolt from long years of suf-
fering, revolt against union usur.
pers who dragged. the workers into
all kind of mire.
Such a revolt cannot, from itself,
be given up. And this struggle if con
tinued as it will and must be, will
surely bring defeat to the pogrom
leaders, and the conditions of the
workers will then be improved.
Must Take the Offensive.
In order to bring to an end the
present struggle, the cloak and dress
makers must have in mind but one
thing; they must see that the strug-