The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-27
10000 Workers at Union
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the Forward" who walked up and
down the street with policemen look
ing for workers to either beat up or
arrest.
When the thousands of workers
got there the Forward" sent out a
hurried call for help and the entire
east side was secured for the riff
raft to come to its defense against
the militant needle workers.
One worker was arrested here at
the behest of the Forward" police
combine and was held for trial in
night court.
Adopt Resolutions.
Three resolutions were adopted by
the meeting. One indorsed the one
hour strike on July Z for Sacco and
Vanzetti. The second was a mes
sage of sympathy for Aaron Gross,
recently cut up by right wing gang
sters to point where he almost died.
The main resolution reads in part
as follows: "The right to picket, the
right of workers to organize into
unions and establish standards of
wages and working conditions, is be-
ing defended by the New York Joint
Board of the Furriers' Union and 80
per cent of the union membership
which supports it in the present
strike.
"The shameless actions Of the
enemies of trade unionism within
the ranks Of the labor movement
have produced emphatic signs Of dis
gust and resentment among the rank
and file-notably the reputation of
the Woll-Frayne-McGrady Commit
tee by the New York Central Trades
and Labor Council and by other labor
bodies in various sections of the
country. But this disgust with the
effects of the alliance with the bosses
to crush fighting trade unionism is
not sufficient to defeat it.
To Raise Issue.
"We call upon every working man
and woman to raise this issue in his
or her union and to demand support
for the furriers' strike-the militant
outpost of the struggle to save and
build the unions into effective wea-
pons of the working class Of Amer
lea.
This mass demonstration Of
thousands of workers held in Union
Square on June 20, 1927, denounces
the attempt to crush the furriers'
strike and destroy the right to picket
and denounces the arrest and prose-
cution of workers for union activi-
ties.
Ask For Support.
I'VE call upon the entire labor
movement to denounce the actions of
the city and state authorities and to
repudiate the understanding policy
Of the enemies of labor in official
positions in the trade union move
ment.
Defend the right to picket!
Support the fur1iers' strike, NOR
ally and financially!
Defeat the attempts to turn trade
unions INTO company unions!
Defeat the alliance of the bosses
the reactionary union officials, DO
lice and Tammany Hall!
Demand an investigation of the
connection between the murderous
gangsters, the police and the official
leadership of the labor movement!
Build the labor movement"
Cut Up Workers Appear.
Towards the end of the Union
Square meeting James Mextaxas and
Frank Weiss, fur strikers, who were
cut up by right wing gangsters last
Friday were introduced from the
center platform. They were swathed
in bandages. The workers cheered
them Justify for several minutes.
The speakers included Ben Gold.
Louis Hyman, Juliet Stuart Poyntz.
j. Blieman, Rebecca Grecht, Louis
Suslxin, Al. Shaap. Irving Shapiro,
Isidor Shapiro, A. Zirlin and Charles
B. Zimmuman.