The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-22
N. Y. Fur Strikers
Thwart Maneuver
of the Reactionaries
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NCouLlnued from rage u
there have again appeared those per-
sons who more than once made a
mean attempt to thwart our efforts, to
interfere with our strike.
Persons motivated by personal and
political considerations have now
come forward with a new scheme
against our strike. Unfortunately
those persons appear under the
name of our own international. In
the name of the International they
have sent out a declaration to all
members. In the name of the
International they call you today
at 2 p. m. to meeting in Carnegie
Hall. They tell you that our strike
committee has hitherto prevented the
International from leading the strike.
They declare that they can obtain
victorious settlement for our strike.
They have sent out ballots to you and
they ask you to authorize their going
into conferences with the manufac.
turers and the taking over of the en-
tire leadership of the strike.
We believe it is not necessary to
tell you that we did not interfere with
the International in leading the strike
You all, Comrades, Furriers, know
very well that President Shachtman
is one Of the main officers Of our
strike committee. He could be, one
Of the main leaders OF the strike. If
he has withdrawn frp@ this leader
ship, if he did not wapt to bear the
burden of the strike and If some vice
presidents have often sought every
means of injuring the strike, it proves
that they did only think of interior
ing with the strike and not of help
ing to lead it.
But this is not the main thing. The
most important is the following:
If the International officers, who re-
moved themselves from strike activi-
ties and strike leadership assert that
they can obtain favorable settlement
for the fur workers, they must make
clear to the strikers the following
salient questions. ns
First, who gave them the right to
conduct negotiations and to speak in
the name of the strikers? Why have
hey not informed the strikers that
aey are conducting secret negotia-
lons with the manufacturers in the
anne of the strikers?
Second, why do the International
Ulcers call a meeting at Carnegie
Hall where there is room for only a
couple of thousand furriers? Why do
ahey not call a meeting in a larger hall
where all 10000 strikers would be
able to have their say?
Why have they not come to the gen.
eral strike committee and to the shop
chairmen in order to lead this strike
to a victory with united forces? Why
is it just now, when it is possible
to begin negotiations with the bosses
for a favorable settlement that they
have sent out letters with ballots,
called separate meeting and thereby
made an open attempt to split the
united and disciplined ranks Of the
strikers?
The general strike committee has
more than once declared and now de-
clares once again that the strike is
not being conducted for the question
who shall confer with the bosses for
settlement, but it is being conduct.
ed for better conditions for which the
fur workers are struggling with might
and main. 1t is no longer possible for
anyone to force himself upon the
strikers by sheer might or provocatlon
as leader. And nobody will be al
lowed to confer or to make a settle
ment without the consent of the strilS
ng furriers. The furriers who bear
the brunt Of the struggle must and
will be the persons who will decide
as to their representatives as well as
| the settlement TO be accepted.
Can we rely on the leaders of the
International?
This question viii not be settled by
any fake ballots which bear no sigma
lures and which can be counted in
any number desired, but by an honest
vote of the membership. No earnest
discussion as TO the points of settle
ment can be conducted today at Car
negie Hall. This can be done only in
gathering at which all strikers may
participate.
It is our deep conviction that II
none OF the internal enemies who are
closer now 70 the manufacturers than
70 the workers, would mix in our
struggle the furriers would have long
ago won their strike.
II aaama howayer that the present