The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-14
LEADER
HYMAN REPLIES
TO The BOSSES
Many Mass Meetings of
Garment Workers


NEW YORK July 12.-Character-
izing as "the height of audacity" the
threat of the Industrial Council of the
Coat, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers
] Association, Inc, to appeal to the po-
| lice commissioner and the district at
torney against alleged violence by
striking cloakmakers, Louis Lyman.
chairman of the general strike COM
mittee, declared yesterday that all the
violence to date has been committed
by underworld hirelings of the bosses.
Only Strikers Suffer Violence.
I'VE are not afraid of action by the
police commissioner or the district at
torney," Mr.. Hyman declared bitterly.
when it is considered that to date
three of our pickets have been shot
and another stabbed and many others
brutally beaten, it is consummate
nerve on the part of Mr.. Finder, pres
ident Of the Industrial Council, to
threaten us with police action. 1t is
byword in the industry that a good
many shops are now under protection
! Henry N. Finder said his complaint
had been based on alleged efforts to
drag foremen and designers to union
headquarters in order to sign up on
the strikers side" Finder also stated
that designers and foremen have
right to work and that they are con-
sidered members of the firms. Mr.
Lyman insists that designers have the
right to join union il they desire,
since they and foremen are merely
workers.
Foremen Of What?
"Foremen are only necessary when
there are workers to work." Mr.. Hy-
man stated yesterday. UNLESS it is
the manufacturers intention to have
] them work with scabs replacing our
strikers, I cannot see the necessity of
the foremen and designers remaining
in the shops. Designers, as everyone
is aware. can only work in conjunc-
ton with others. Since the rest are
on strike, they are useless at this
time.
"Mr. Finder boasts idly when he
talks of being willing to lose the en-
tire season rather than concede to the
workers just demands. | want to tell
him that the workers are ready not
only to lose this season but to strike
into the next in order to achieve our
purpose"
Albert Weisbord, youthful leader of
40 Do 10 favff1a ct 10 mill ko ON
OF the principal speakers at series of
huge mass meetings to be held this
week on behalf of the 10000 striking
cloakmakers of New York. The dem
onstrations this week will be preceded
by march Of pickets thru the strike
districts, headed by Louis LYMAN,
chairman of the general strike com
mittee. the general staff of the picket
committee, of which J. Goretsky is
chairman, and other strike leaders.
The principal mass meeting will be
held at the Manhattan Lyceum. 66
East Fourth street, and bennington
hall, IA Second street. Tuesday at
p. m. sharp and at Arlington Hall. 10
st. Marks place, also at 2 O'clock
Weisbord and Norman Thomas, for
mer socialist candidate for governor of
New York. will address the Arlington
Hall gathering Wednesday.
Many Meetings.
Other meetings will be held Tuesday
at Lenox Assembly, Clinton Hall.
Grand Central Palace and Odd Eel
lows Hall For Wednesday additional
meetings are scheduled at the Grand
Opera House, Vienna Hall and
Brownsville Labor Lyceum, Brooklyn.
and Laurel Garden, the Bronx.
Other prominent speakers scheduled
to encourage the strikers in theirde-
mand to bring the jobbers. who con-
troll rs per cent OF the garment in
dustry, into responsibility TO the work.
ers, are: Louis Hyman, chairman OF |
the general strike committee: Morris
Sigman, president OF the |. L. G. w
u; Julia Stuart Poyntz, frasini OF the
Italian Chamber OF Labor: Ben Git
low. Ben Gold, w. Olgin. NJ !, Budish,
L. Antonnini and Teinstein OF the
Hebrew trades, ~