The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
Issues and Forces in the Struggle
in the Needle Trades

1t is not surprising that The Neo York Times is acting as the
mouhpiece the ractOnay against the militant
majority the Ladies' Workers.
the other needle trades unions.
The Times has its into propaganda agencies
for the Sman forces and their program and why should give
them all the support of which it is capable? pre-
The program of The Times the needle arbitration
The of SigmaA and his followers the program Hill
man and Becerman for the Amagamated Clothing Workers
bitration
The program Daily Fooad language organ
Of the socialist party in the needle trades sarbration
The program the Net0 Leader weekly organ
cals party for the needle trades, arbitration
The program of the trade union ofcialdom
trade union America expressed Watson
Parker BILL compulsory arbitration.
The program the capitalist class working
class is also compulsory arbitration expressed
ker DILL and IN the message OF President Coolidge
with the further amounting abolition important
caeo the right strike expressed the
United supreme August Dorothy This
decision of sweeping character giving right
emne what strikes Justified has
by the heads of the trade union movement.
The present struggle the International Garment
Workers Union athO pictured by the right wing capitalist
simply struggle against theory practice
and against Communists in the light of the above facts reality
struggle preserve the unions work
ing class against attempt make of them spiess
fectve organizations in which all will struggle has killed
and which depend upon good
play upon the part of the capitalists improve
living standards Of the membership
latter policy the history of labor in every land shows to
fatal the trade whole working
Here is where clear understanding of the
oed and the form the struggle takes necessary every
The drive against the Communists
not made this time because the ed good
the demagog Communists have
the needle trades especially in the International
Workers and needle trades workers stampeded
cry of Communism"
The fight the Communists this because the Com
mun Party membership and its ympahzers
Ladies' Garment Workers stand suarey the path right
would ead-te path arbitration
workerempoyer cooperation and impotence
The Communists the hardest fighters militant policy
and their devotion and organzaonal ability impossible
the right wing in the l. L. W. over to Tam
Hall thru the medium of the governors
Fighting side by side with the Communists left wing
the union which saved it from destruction of Sigman
and the socialist party cohorts represented the
Nec Leader.
Against these workers aligned BOSSES the national Of
cialdom of the Amalgamated the l. W. IT, the A. F. of
leaders, the right and capitalist press police powers
The government.
lined here will deal with enough to saw now
that the drive against the Communists wing the l. L.
g. W. u is nothing accidental but essentially clash between
Imperialism the labor policy would
make efficiency of the unions correct policy of
The Communists adapted to the needs of
which would make of the unions fighting an
pressed class unions in which the capitalists search in vain
aid carrying their schemes ensavng the work
ing class.
No honest worker will be in doubt side he will sup
port in a struggle centering around such basic issues