The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-17
GANGSTERS AND
POLICE ATTACK
N. Y. UNIONISTS
S Arrested, Many Hurt
as 5000 March
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the nightsticks Of the police and the
blackjacks of the gangsters.
Those arrested were: Grace Seido'
man, 70 East 105th St., Bertha Code.
1850 Lyman Place, the Bronx, Rose
Kuntz, 946 Leggett avenue, the Bronx.
Rose Cohen, 35 2. 155th ST., the
Bronx, Rose Sweet, IA Clinton st.
Pressers Plan Protest.
The demonstration was planned at
the meeting of Local S5, the Press
ers' Union, held the previous night
at Manhattan Lyceum. Following
the announcement of Joseph Goret-
sky manager of Local 35, Of the de-
cision Of the general executive board
to demand the resignation of left
wing strike leaders and the books
and property of the union, by a
unanimous resolution of the garment
workers assembled there, the resig-
nation of right wing officials on the
executive board was requested, and
the huge demonstration planned for
one o'clock of the following day.
Because of the outbreaks, the bru-
tality on the part of the right wing
strong-arm men, and the threats by
Sigman and his cohorts to take over
the headquarters OF the joint board
and the locals and install by force
right wing officials, hundreds Of gar.
ment workers are guarding the Of
fees Of the joint board, 12S East
25th st. and Locals 2, 9, % and Sc.
Attack Local 35.
The two attacks on the left wing
members of the union made by the
right wing gangsters was foreshad-
owed by the attack that preceded
the meeting Of Local IS at Manhat-
tan Lyceum the night before. AS the
pressers were gathering between five
and six O'Clock, a mob of jeering and
bowling reactionaries camped across
the street from the hall.
/ When they say they could not dis.
turb the meeting by these tactics,
they fell upon the arriving members
of the left wing and a free-for-all
fight ensued. Reserves from the
Fifth street police station were call
ed, but it was fully half hour be-
fore order was restored.
Beginning Of Fight.
These violent movements on the
part of the Sigman-Beckerman ma
chine are the beginnings of a final
desperate struggle to regain control
of the union. Chagrined because
they have ben unable to discredit the
left wing leadership Of the strike, the
machine is now resorting to force to
GUST the left from office.
At the meeting of the right wing
of Local 50, formed of reserves from
various unions who were snatched
out Of the Rand School and the PEG.
pies Home when the ranks of the at
tackers outside Manhattan Lyceum
we're found to be thin, Joseph Bres.
law, ex-manager of the local, out.
lined the plan by which the right
wing hopes to betray the strikers to
the sub-manufacturers
Further Betrayal.
He announced that the general exc
cutive board of the international
Union had requested the Association
OF Manufacturers to recall the lock
out and confer with the union and a
/ committee OF cloakmakers appoint.
ed for that purpose by the G. {. r.
Meanwhile the left wing leaders OF
the strike are still carrying on, un.
daunted by the disheartening betray
ais and attacks Of the reactionary
right wing. Despite the action of the
/ general executive board in demand
ing the resignation Of left wing Of
ficials of the union, the unanimous
endorsement of their Leadership by
/ the demonstration outside the ma.
tional Offices of the union and the
strikebreaking Jewish Daily Forward
has encouraged them to continue
their defense of the strikers.
BY S. o. LEVINE.
Especial to The Daily Worker)
BOSTON, Dec. 15.--Boston needle
workers at an enthusiastic mass
meeting held tonight at 2S Hayward
Place adopted resolutions condemn.
ing the Sigman clique in the cloak
makers union for their strikebreak-
ing tactics in the present strike in
New York and pledged full support
to the joint board Of New York in
the struggle. The meeting also
pledged support to the victory loan
issued by the strike committee.
The meeting was called by the
Trade Union Educational League and
the right wingers in Boston showed
an example OF Sigmanism by trying
10 prevent the meeting from being
held.
Disruption.
II was originally called at Scenic
Auditorium. Sam Wiseman OF the
Cap Makers Union presided and
Miller Of the cap makers and Rebec
ca Grecht began TO speak but the
right wingers, who before hand