The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-23
Membership of the
Amalgamated Called
to Act for Union
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time and again, three times in sue
cession, a cut in wages.
They only made fuss that they
would organize the unorganized"
tailors, but have done it only upon
the crook of the finger of the manu-
facturers' association (the organiza-
ton campaign of PHILADELPHIA AS
it looks now the leaders of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers have made
themselves a subcommittee of the
bosses association.
The Reign Of Terror.
The most active members of the
union have been suspended. Locals
have been disowned. Workers are
thrown out of shops when they dare
protest against the criminal behavior
of our leaders. Terror has been insti-
tuted by which not only the expulsion
policy has been put In effect but also
individual members have been beaten
up. This chapter of history in the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
America has no comparison. Meet
ings of locals of the union have been
turned into battle grounds by Hill
mans gangsters.
The official press of the Amalgam-
ated is turned into sheets by which
the Hillman machine sought to cover
up its criminal activities with ether
lied and radical phrases. No word
has been said about the struggle that
the membership leads against the
bureaucrats. Not syllable has been
written about the living problems of
the tailoring industry. Everything
there had been planted in rosy colors.
Forced to Revolt.
The unbearable conditions in the
shops on the one hand, the contin-
uous conceding policy Of the Hillman
machine to the bosses on the other,
the terror against the membership as
good third, were the forces that
brought the membership into uprising
against the bureaucrats.
The struggle embraces more and
more workers over the country. New
York is in revolt There is almost no
local where the machine agents have
not been defeated. There is no shop
where the workers have the slightest
faith in our leaders who mislead.
They have tried to fabricate lockouts
and strikes in order to regain the
trust of the membership. But they
were mistaken. Theamembership re-
fuses to recognize them. The only Or
ganization that has the trust of the
membership in New York is the Anal
gamated Action Committee.
Chicago Uprising only Begun.
The tailors in chicago are coming
out into open battle against the so
called "readjustmasvs" and against
heir bureaucrats. The pogroms that
! the Hillman agents organized against
the membership cannot check the
fight. On the contrary, it acts only as
spark in powders it spreads the.
fame to its full length and breadth.
Workers of Rochester, too, have
shown that they wish to have nothing
to do with the corrupt Hillman meth
DDS and this was shown plainly in
their recent electiong This is the senti-
ment that is prevalent among the
workers in our trade against the Anal
gamated machine. 1
The Hillman game in the Anal
gamated is lost. The bureaucrats feel
it. This is the one reason why they
hav renewed their campaign of ter
ror on the one hand and peace nego-
tiations on the other. The New
York locals which elected a commit
tee to speak terms with the bureau
Gratis play unconsciously into the
hands of the machine. There are
few men in the committee who are in
earnest and it is to them that we ad-
dress the following:
I. Those who desire peace must
first Of all decide that all expelled
members must be relnstated. The
dissolved locals must be reorgan-
lied. Those 40 we're thrown out
of work becalrtt Of their opposition
to the HiIlman anachine must be put
to work again at their former
places.
2. The officers n the New York
Joint board must resign at once and
new election must take place for
members Of the Joint board and
executive committees.
8. The New York organization
must be united into one Joint board
and each local Of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Of America shall
be represented there on a proper
tlonal membership basis, aboIlshlng
privileges of one local over another.
Those who speak Of peace must
realize that the above is the only
basis on which we can come together.
If those who speak OF peace are in
earnest they will not hesitate a
moment In accepting the above, with
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