The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-17
WEEKLY PAPER
TO AID NEEDLE
TRADES UNITY
Committee Orders Joint
Chairmen's Meeting

| enlargement of the needle workers.
The employers in the needle industries
have taken full advantage of this sad
state of affairs to foist upon the
needle workers more cruel schemes of
exploitation, and have even tried to
bring back the hateful sweatshop sys-
tenn"
Rally Against Corruption.
The committee calls upon all or
ganized labor to supports it's fight
against corruption gangsterism and
treaeherous -officialdom; and to rally
round the committee in its fight for
the defense and preservation Of the
unions.
The Unity Committee is the official
body (which will lead the struggle
against the union breakers"
United Action.
"The Unity Committee stands for
the united action of the two Joint
Board The Unity Committee stands
for the complete amalgamation of the
needle trade unions. The formation of
this committee marks the first step
toward the realization Of the dream
of all progressive workers. The ANAL
gamation of all unions into powerful
instruments Of struggle for the bet
terment of the workers conditions.
"The Unity Committee will central
ize and mobilize all the forces Of both
unions for the defense of the workers
against the gangsters employed by
the officers of the International Lad
les Garment Workers Union and the
international Fur Workers Union.
Will Free Prisoners.
"The Unity Committee will make
it possible to defend the workers in
their shops and maintain their union
conditions.
"The Unity Committee win conduct
struggle against the corrupt Of
ficials to victorious conclusion.
n behalf of the Joint Board of the
"In behalf of the Joint Board of the
Cloak and Dressmakers' Unions and
the Joint Board of the Furriers'
Union the Unity Committee appeals
TO the workers to help, morally and
financially, to free the active work
ers who were imprisoned due to the
betrayal and frame-up by the treach-
erous International officials. We APP
peal to the workers to pay their dues
nd taxes to the Joint Board"
Two Unions Together.
In this effective way, the Joint
Boards Of the two powerful unions
will unite their "organizational
strength and resources in order to
combat their common enemy which
seeks to deliver the unions to the en-
ployers."
The left wing representatives,
:hosen by the workers, will in this
way continue to fight militantly, as
they have in the past, for the inter-
ests Of the needle trades workers.
The fighting spirit Of the workers is
undaunted by the treachery of the
International officials. The workers
are only more determined than ever
to rid themselves of the old type O
bureaucrats.
Start Weekly Paper.
"A weekly paper Tor FUR workers
cloak and dressmakers, will be issued
regularly beginning next week, so II
was announced yesterday by represen-
tatives of the Unity Committee
formed of delegates from the Fur
riers, and the Cloak and Dressmakers
Joint Boards.
The decision about the paper was
made at a committee meeting at which
an executive subcommittee was Sc
lected to carry on the activities Of the
united forces of the two unions. This
subcommittee consists of Louis Hy-
man, C. S. Zimmerman and Ben Gold,
who is secretary.
The Unity Committee will hold
Joint shop chairmen's meeting next
Tuesday, at a hall to be announce
later. Further plans will then b
formulated for carrying on the join
work in the fight against the force
of treachery and reaction in the In
ternational Fur Workers Union and
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union.