The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-20
STOP WORK TO
ANSWER SICMAN
BOSS COMBINE

NEW YORK CITY, August 1a.-The
Joint Committee of Action Of Locals
| 2, 9 and %, of the international
Ladies' Garment Workers. Union Is
calling all cloak and dress makers to
stop work on Thursday afternoon at
three o'clock and fill ten Of the Iarg-
est New York City halls with their
numbers in order to show the manu-
facturers who are secretly aiding the
Sigman gang in the Joint Board that
the rank and file look to the Joint
Action Committee and not to the Sig
man gang for leadership, and mean
to permit no boss or bosses to trifle
in union affairs. A general stoppage
will be discussed if this continues.
The circular distributed turnout
New York shops states as follows
Sisters and Brothers:-It is nine
weeks now since we are conducting
bitter struggle against the machine
of the Joint Board and the Interna-
tional
In their attempt to suppress the
revolt of the membership against
their corrupt rule, the officialdom re-
sorted to the most despicable meth
DDS. No weapon was too degrading
for them to employ in their conspir-
acy against the membership.
Alliance With Bosses.
All their methods have been total
failure. The cloak and dressmakers
have offered an iron wall of resist
ance against all the vicious attacks.
The Joint Board has now made an
open alliance with the bosses In or
der to break our ranks. This open
betrayal of the workers has gone so
far that the bosses have practically
become the chairmen in the shops
and force the workers to pay dues to
the Joint Board and discharge them
by the hundreds at the instigation of
the Joint Board machine.
This loyal service on the part Of
the bosses has been rewarded by CIV
| ing the bosses a free hand to disre-
gard all union rules and act as they
please in their shops. Thru a secret
understanding between the Joint
Board and the employers, hundreds
of workers have been thrown out Of
their jobs, under the guise of ''reor-
ganizations." Even the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Fund, to which every
one of us has contributed his or her
share, is used as a weapon to force
the workers to pay dues to the Joint
Board.
Must Say, Hands Off,"
Cloak and dressmakers! You have
always shown splendid spirit in our
struggle. You have at every oppor-
tunity demonstrated your readiness to
defend what you believed to be right
and permitted no one to trample upon
| your rights
The time has come when you must
say to your employers: Hands on"
The time has come when you must
say TO the Sigman clique: "Out With
You'll"
The time has come when you must
declare before the entire world that
you alone will decide who your rep
resentatives are to be and not the
employers.
In order to demonstrate your
power and make an end to the
present situation, we call on you
to stop from work on Thursday
afternoon, August 20, 8 o'clock
sharp, to demonstrate your deter.
minatlon to carry this fight to a
successful conclusion.
| Come to the halls that will be an
signed for you. There you will act
upon the question of calling a general
stoppage against the employers in
the event that they will continue 10
interfere in the internal affairs of our
union.
It is your solemn duty to come and
voice your opinion. 1t is your duty to
come and decide the fate of the cloak
and dressmakers.
We call on all the cloak and dress.
makers: Operators, sample workers.
pressers, cutters, finishers, tailors
diapers, examiners and all other
workers in the trade to come and de-
eide the outcome of our struggle.
JOINT COMMITTEE OF ACTION.
Locals 2, 9 and "a.