The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-07
FURRIERS JAM
HALLS; PROTEST
Police Terror
Thousands of Strikers
Hear Left Speeches
By 4 Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK, March - Thousands
of fur strikers gathered In the three
largest halls in the downtown section
to protest the brutalties and arrests
Of the police. The police have been
beating, clubbing and arrestlng strik-
ing fur workers without cause or rea-
son, and have been protecting the
hired gunner of the bosses.
When Benjamin Gold came int
Webster Hall, the strikers gave hin
an ovation that lasted for a few
minutes. 81 know" he said "the terror
campaign that the bosses are carrying
on thru the police and hired gangsters,
will not in any way lessen the deter
mination and militancy of the fur
strikers to fight for their just de.
mands in order that they may live like
human beings and not like slaves.
We will hold responsible the manufac-
turers in any murder that the hired
gunner of the manufacturers may
commit No police force in the world
nor all of the gangsters of the United
States can break the solid ranks of
the fur workers and the instructions
for Monday morning are that all the
workers are going to be in mass
picketing demonstration"
Gitlow Gets Ovation.
AS soon as the workers saw Gitlow
coming into the hall, he got an ovation
that lasted at least fifteen minutes, ''it
is no surprise that the workers are
beaten and dubbed by the police for
the police serve the interests Of the
bosses and not the workers. They do
the bidding of the manufacturers and
all exploiters Of labor and the only
way the workers will be able to stop
the brutalities Of the police, prison
and injunction of the capitalist judges,
is by organizing political party of
their own, labor party that will
serve the interests Of the workers and
not of the bosses. Then the workers
will stop the brutalities Of the police,
the injunctions, and prisons of the
judges"
He then pointed out the Importance
for the needle trades to amalgamate
into one big union where all the work
ers of the needle industry VIII be un-
der one organization and not broken
up into many small parts.
Lyman, from the joint board, Cloak
makers Union, was then introduced
as the next speaker and said the
whole labor movement is watching the
fur workers strike, for a victory for
the furriers, means a victory for the
cloakmakers.
Dangers to Health.
William Weinstone, of the Workers
Party, brought out that the striking
furriers are subjected to the deadly
plague of tuberculosis and many other
diseases from the dyes and dust of the
skins. Weinstone then touched upon
the militant strike that the textile
workers are carrying on in Passaic
and Garfield, N. j., where the workers
were working for a starvation wage
OF Sill to $22 and when the workers
went out on strike, the cry was raised
of Bolshevik. Eyes, any worker is a
Bolshevik when he demands little
more bread for himself and children.
Yes and you are Bolsheviks because
you want to make a better living for
yourselves and family" ended Vein
stone amid an ovation that lasted ten
minutes.
Strikers Militant
Shapiro, one Of the most active,
workers in the strike declared: 1--WE
are ready at any time to show who is
using paid gangsters-the manufactur-
ers or the strikers. The police is work
ing for the manufacturers association,
and when the strikers are arrested in
wholesale numbers and the Judge fines
them they are willing to serve in jail
rather than have the union pay the
fines that are imposed upon them.
am proud to belong to an industry
where the workers are in such mill
tant spirit as the strikers are showing
here. We are striking now to carry
the union into the shops and not keep
II in an Office or a building. We are
putting It where the workers will
have something to say about their
working conditions"