The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-24
YELLOW FAKERS'
ATTACK SETS MY,
UNIONS ON FIRE
S o CT aIist Autocracy
Fought by 10000
BY ERNEST ETTLINeER.

NEW YORK CITY With unani
nifty seen only in great mass strikes.
thousands Of garment workers at their
various mass meetings have unequiv-
ocably condemned the attempt Of the
officials Of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union to disrupt
their organization and make it a PHI
able tool of the Forward gang and the
socialist party.
The reaction Of the rank and file
against the terrorist policy Of the
union officialdom reached its climax
and thousands of workers loyalty
pledged their support to their duly
elected executive boards to fight and
resist any attempt to tamper with the
organization and so break down the
standards attained by years Of strug-
gle.
Suspended Executives Take Offensive.
The executive boards Of the respec-
tive locals of the Garment Workers,
Local %, Local and 8, illegally sus-
pended by the autocrats Of the Inter
national, Messrs, Sigman Feinberg &
Company outlined the causes Of the
attack on the union and pointed out
that the union machine being bank
rupt and unable to gain for the work
ers union conditions and unwilling to
make militant fight against the en-
ployers had resorted to this latest tao
tic and in true autocratic style had
attempted to intimidate the union by
the suspension of the executive board.
This outrage should be sufficient to
point out to the workers that the Off
cialdom were interested in nothing but
to perpetuate their control and were
willing to sell the union hand and foot
to the employers if by so doing they
could retain control Of the organiza-
ton.
Machine Is Desperate.
Menaced by the growing protest Of
the rank and file against their treach-
erous policy of collaboration with the
bosses, the union machine in one last
desperate attempt endeavored to split
the organization and weaken the fight
ing power of the union.
II was pointed out that, whereas the
joint board has an income Of over
five hundred thousand dollars a year,
with no legitimate expenses, yet their
voraciOus appetites were never salts
fed and in spite of the protests Of the
local unions they forced thru a raise
in the dues which would further en-
able them to live of the backs Of the
rank and file.
1t also was pointed out by the var
ious speakers that whereas the sus-
pended locals had in their ranks
forty thousand workers which is sixty
per cent of the total union member
ship, yet their representation on the
joint board was only twenty per cent.
And it was only by means Of this
rotten borough" system that the ma
chine retained its control in spite Of
the fact that the overwhelming major
10y Of the membership was opposed 10
them.
At all Of these meetings the rank
and file unanimously adopted resolu-
tions Of condemnation against the tao
tics and policies of the joint board and
the International, and pledged their
full support to carry on the fight to
the finish, forming for that purpose a
joint council Of the three suspended
locals and attempting to win to their
support the rank and file of the other
locals of the International.
No Dual Movement
That the International and the Joint
board will by every means seek TO
throw dust into the eyes Of the work
ers and to brand this revolt as dual
unionism," the work Of reds, etc, is
| obvious, but the leaders Of this move
ment recognize full well the dangers
Of secession and dual unionism and
are appealing to the rank and file OF
all Of the unions of the International.
They point out that it is the union
machine that is the wrecker and be-
trayer Of the International Garment
Workers Union and that unless the
mass Of the workers rises up in revolt
against the treachery and class col
laboratlon policy Of the International
all that the thousands Of workers have
struggled for in so many years Of bit
ter battle will be lost.
The Garment Workers everywhere
must unite their ranks and struggle TO
preserve their organization and work
ing standards in the face Of the Of
fensive OF the employers and THAR