The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-11
RIGHT WINGERS
join BOSS WAR
ON N. Y. union
Sigman Supporters in
Rand School Meet
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ment made Wednesday night said that
its shops would be closed and the
10000 workers locked out, Notified
that they could come back only on
an open shop basis and with no agree
ment with the union.
The general strike committee charge
that the contractors are executing the
policies of the jobbers and the right
wing Sigman machine to smash the
strike. There has never been such
conspiracy perpetrated against union
before, they declare.
Workers Fight.
Great mass meetings of locked-out
workers were held in four halls Thurs
day night and the workers modified
to repel the attacks Of the bosses and
their allies, the right wing Sigman
machine.
1t is very significant that stimuli
taneously with the attack Of the
bosses a meeting was held in the Rand
chool of 95 representatives of New
York right wing trade union groups
which mapped out a campaign to ex-
| terminate Communists from the trade
unions and to help the Sigman ma
chine smash the cloakmakers' strike.
The meeting decided to call confer
ence of all trade unions for Dec. 81
to meet at Beethoven Hall and con
slider plans for the complete elinana-
ton of COMMUNISTS from the trade
unions.
Flight Wing Call.
The call issued contains the follow
ling: I'VE call for war against Com
munist disruption We call for the
workers of all unions to unite against
the internal enemy the Communists.
The division between the trade union
movement and the Communist adven-
turers must be definitely established"
The call further stated: "The revo-
luton in Russia created the impression
in the minds of number of people
that a similar revolution was due in
the United States and that ANY union
that did not join the Communist In
ternational was a traitor to the work
ing class. Then followed a period of
wild activity in the trade unions and
the Workmen's Circle, with the Trade
Union Educational League working
under tructions from the
Workers (Communist) Party. The
unions must remain free from outside
domination and from the interior
ence Of all political parties"
Reactionary sIgners.
The call was signed by Abraham
Beckerman, chairman of the Joint
board of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Union, Louis d. Berger, man
ager of the Neckwear Makers Union;
Samuel A. Beardsley, president of the
District Council of Jewelry Workers
Union; Morris Feinstone, secretary of
the United Hebrew Trades; Samuel
Hershkowitz, manager of the joint
council Of Cap and Millinery Workers
Union; Rose Schneiderman Of the
Women's Trade Union League and A.
!. Shiplacoff of the International
Pocket Goods Workers Union
The committee that signed this
statement also bitterly attacked the
Furriers' Union OF New York and the
methods they employed in the recent
strike which that union won. The
signers also stated that the newly
formed committee and the conference
in Webster Hall on the 21st OF the
month will lend their aid to the Sig
man machine in the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union in
their fight to GUST the Communists
who have been leading the fight OF the
cloalkmakers in the present strike and
lockout in New York.
According to reports from the offices
OF the International, all day and night
the underworld elements are being
modified for the attack upon the pro
gressive leadership Of the New York
union.
The striking cloakmakers are plan
ming a big drive to enlist the support
OF the entire labor movement in their
life and death struggle to defeat the
bosses and their agents and to main.
tain the union.
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