The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04
CREAM OF The
GARMENT trade
GOES LEFT WING
l. l.. C. w. Designers Go
Entirely with Left
BY J. p.
worker Correspondent


is on. The revolt of organized labor
against the organized bureaucrats and
gangsters in the unions is rising high.
The fact that the revolt began at
the lowest stratum of labor is the
best guarantee for its success. Now
the revolt is reaching such upper
strata" as have been until now con-
sidered too conservative, impene-
trable for the left wingers' propagan-
da, and invulnerable.
One of such "invulnerable unions"
was of the United Designers Of La
dies Wear in New York, I. L. G..
w. U. Local As.
What Used To Be
Until the last 100000 fake strike,
staged by the notorious Sigman-Fein-
berg machine, the membership of the
designers local were staunch support
ers of this ill-famed gangster machine
and often shouted down any progress
i've and cleft winger" who attempted
to expose the crooked deeds of the
union bureaucrats.
There were times, when mere re-
port of proceedings written by left
winger and appearing in the Commun-
list daily Freiheit was bitterly con-
demned, and promises of bodily harm
were dealt out openly by the agents
of the machine inside the union.
Like in all other unions, where re-
dictionary bureacrats rule with iron
hand for the benefit of the master
class, so in the Designers Union, this
docile spirit was built on two facts:
Firstly, on the ignorance of the
membership about the true character
Of the bureacrats, and secondly, on
the gangster organization and tactics
used at the membership meetings.
Designers Wake Up
Sigman, the president, and Fem
berg as manager of the joint board,
were handing out promises which
they never kept. In the meanwhile,
hundreds of designers were walking
the streets of New York unemployed.
The one time cream of the trade"
is beginning to feel the sledge-ham-
mer of capitalism that is pounding
them irresistibly into the general
mass of the proletarian class. Gradu-
ally the class feeling developed
among them.
But the complete change of spirit
came only when the. old agreement of
the Cloakmakers' Union with the
bosses expired and was to be i'm
proved and renewed. The designers
rekoned on inserting into the new
agreement a special clause, which
should protect them on the job, as it
protects workers of other locals of the
great International Union.
When the news broke thru, that the
Sigman-Feinberg-Hillquit machine
double crossed them, and by fixing a
secret agreement with the bosses be-
.trayed every branch of the garment
workers organization, the spirit of
wrath was steadily mounting and the
membership falling off
Endorse Left Wing
Finally a resolution was adopted,
condemning the crooked, old, burea-
cratic Sigman machine and fully en-
dorsing the left wing militant joint
action committee.
When later, with the victory of the
joint action committee, the New York
Joint board was recognized, the de-
signers Immediately took advantage
of the new situation to send a special
committee to the joint board, demand
ing full cooperation of the joint board
in its organization drive, as well as
full fiedged recognition of the de-
signers' demands in all future deal
ings with the bosses.
Elect Left Wing
Logically, the joint board accepted
these demands as self evident.
So the one time cream of the
trade" which is separated from the
bosses by only one step, went entire
ly left, and in their last meeting at
the Hotel Pennsylvania elected only
such members as delegates to the con-
vention of the |. L. G. w. u, who
had an unbroken record of left wing
activity"
The elected delegates are: Brothers
Chack, j. Prokop and Slackman. AS
alternates; Brothers f. Moss and Nit
chell. Watch the local grow!
Framed-up Railroader