The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
Striking Furriers i'm N. Y.
Call Workers to Battle for
the F0rty-H0ur Week

Fellow workers! To the workers
of our great metropolis, notably to the
workers of the needle trades, belongs
the honor of having first established
the 44-hour week. Now, partly due to
our fight, the ideal of 40-hour week
is stirring the minds of thousands
upon thousands in this industrial dis
trict. The Fur Workers have en-
braced it, enthusiastically and stoutly.
The New York section of the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers.
Union has adopted the demand of the
40-hour week in principle The Cap
Makers Union has endorsed it. The
Amalgamated Clothing workers of
America have just accepted it at their
Montreal national convention. Presi-
dent Green of the A. F. of L. has
given the 4O-hour week his endorse
ment.
New York Unity.
Now is the time to come to our aid
and to make the demand. for a 4O-hour
week the demand of New York's or
ganized labor. We, the workers of
New York and vicinity, must be the
pioneers in establishing this great
new principle of freedom in our shops,
factories, mills, in the building trades
and everywhere, where. the workers
are toiling. The time is sripe. We, the
Fur Workers, are in the front line.
We have proven by our actions that
we are capable of holding the battle
line. But your aid is urgently needed.
We therefore appeal to you, workers
, of all other trades, not only to SYM
pathize with our struggle for the 40
hour week in principle, but, to fight
for it in practice.
Mass Meetings.
Fellow workers, mass meetings and
other gatherings will be called to
demonstrate for the 4O-hour week. Do
not fail to come. Make these meetings
the hugest and most imposing labor
demonstrations of the year. Show the
employers and the powers that be that
you are determined to fight for 40
hour week. Show by your very num-
bers that the 40-hour week is a mass
demand. Show the world in general
and the working class in particular
that you are united, organized, con-
scious of your powers and enthusi-
astically engaged in the fight.
Labor organizations! We appeal to
you to rally around the banner we
have now raised. Remember that our
cause is your own cause Let every
central and local body declare its
readiness to stand firmly behind our
fight for the 40-hour week Let every
central and local body do its utmost
to make every gathering, every DEM
onstration, and every other action in
favor of the 4O-hour week a success.
Let them make the 40.hour week, the
most urgent general point in the pro-
gram of their work. And let them re-
member that every right needs the
sinews Of war. W
We have been engaged in bitter
struggle for months. eWe need finan-
cial aid. We can get1it from nowhere
outside the working class. In calling
to you for immediate financial aid,
we appeal not only to working class
solidarity, but we remind you of the
great importance of the fight for the
4O-hour week which is your own fight.
A New Era.
A new era is dawning upon the
working class. New viStas open be-
fore the laboring masses. Let us all
unite in raising the banner of the
forty-hour week. Let it become the
battle cry of labor all over New York,
all over the country.
Long live the 40-hour week!
Long live the solidarity of the work
ing class!
Long live the workers struggle for
| freedom!
General Strike Committee,
Furrlers' Union.