The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-21
Joint BOARD
LIES ABOUT
SHOP STRIKES
Joint Action Committee
States Facts
tspeeIaI to rhe DaIIy WORKER,


NEW YORK CITY, Aug. ts-The
announcement Of the Joint Board re-
gardng the settlement Of three Of the
largest shops on strike, was denied
by the Joint Committee of Action and
branded as just another trick OF the
Joint Board to try to deceive the work.
ers.
The Joint Board stated that the
workers in the Best Cloak Company,
ia West 18th street, the H. Fred.
ericks Co., 2O5 West 39th street and
Wittenberg & Shimberg Co., 1872
Broadway, had deserted the Joint
Committee of Action and turned to the
support of the Joint Board.
A Solid Front.
Contrary to the Joint Board state
ment, the shop of the Best Cloak
company was settled by the Joint
Committee of Action in spite Of con-
tinued interference from the Joint
Board. Several weeks ago the Joint
Boards business agent had ordered a
meeting of this shop, and when the
chairman refused to call the meeting
the boss was told to discharge him.
Immediately all Is workers in the
shop, cutters included, stopped work
and for four weeks they remained out
on strike. During that time some Of
them (not alb received strike bene-
fits and this is the money which is
termed a "bribe" by the Joint Board.
This strike was finally settled by
the Joint Action Committee, and all
the workers, with their chairmen,
have gone back to the shop. All the
efforts If the Joint Board to make fur.
Their trouble there, especially to turn
the cutters against the other work
ers, have been unsuccessful.
Strike Against Discrimination.
In the H. Fredericks Co., and Wit
tenberg G Shimberg, the situation is
as it has been for the past eight
weeks. The Wittenberg & Shimberg
Co. were ordered by the Joint Board
to discharge l. Steiner soon after he
was suspended as a member OF Local
2 Executive Committee.
This shop is small one which
sends most Of its work to small Ital-
ian contracting shops in Brooklyn.
The Joint Board threatened to cut OF
these sub-contractors IL the firm re-
fused to obey its rulings, and altho
they were unwilling, they were forced
to let Steinzor go.
he Tofnf O~~n,.ttSno - ~4t~-
declared this shop on strike and be-
gan pickecing it regularly. A strike
was also declared on the H. Freder-
icks Co. when H. Hochstein was sent
down from his job for exactly the
same reasons, and picketing has been
conducted at this shop also. These
shops are still on strike and the pick
citing is still going on.
Sigman Terror Drives Worker 70
Collapse.
An instance Of the Joint Boards ter
rorist tactics is revealed in the case of
NJ Herlich of 1853 Minford Place. who
worked as a cutter in one Of the
other shops on strike because Of the
discharge of workers who sympathis-
ed with the Joint Committee Of
Action.
After Merlich had left his Job with
the other workers in his shop and
stayed out for two weeks, gangsters
came to his home at 1 o'clock in the
morning and threatened that II he did
not go back to his Job they would beat
him up and kill him. In fear OF this
life, Herlich went back to work and
after day and half, the strain Of
the whole situation brot on a mental
breakdown and he is now in hos
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