The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
STRIKE out OF
SY MP ATHY FOR
BUSTED WORKERS
Sig1man Visits Boston;
Trip Is Failure


BOSTON, (By Mail The month
Of August was a month of great
evencs in Boston. The conference Of
shop chairmen and committees called
by the National Organizational Com.
mittee, which took place on Aug. q
was so successful that the Interna.
aonal clique leadership fell into q
panic.
For days did this clique contem-
plate the breaking up of the con-
ference by intimidating the workers,
warning them against going to the
conference and threatening with dis
charge. At the end, shop after
shop disregarded their orders and
came to the conference. Fifty-seven
shops, which represent about rs per
cent of the garment industry of Bos-
ton responded to the conference.
The spirit of this conference was
one of enthusiasm, devotion and
hope Every worker present felt
that he is contributing and he is
ready to contribute all the time for
the building of a new and powerful
union. The speeches, the actions
taken all breathed with new con-
structive readiness to build.
The mass meeting of Cloak and
dressmakers held on August %
where hundreds of workers endorsed
the decisions of the conference to
build union of cloak and dress
makers was another knock to the in
ternational clique. The new union is
now the subject of discussion on
every corner and every place where
cloak and dressmakers gather.
This constructiveness and spirit
of enthusiasm has also been trans
mitted to the shop. Shop after shop
is telling the business agents of the
international that they refuse to
recognize officers who were afraid to
face an election; they refuse to
recognize a union which practices
discrimination, yellow dog contracts
and machine control, and the inter
national is powerless against the de-
termination of the membership to
build their union.
The policy of terrorizing the
workers thru the imposing of fines
and thru discharges from jobs met
also with failure in Boston. Solomon
Farbush, who was fined by the
chairman of the membership meeting
with five dollars for making a re-
mark to the dislike of the chairman
never paid this fine. The cloak and
dressmakers of Boston realized that
the imposing of fines by chairman
of a meeting was challenge to the
entire membership; they accepted
the challenge and when brother Solo
mon was discharged from the job
per order of the self-appointed
Joint Board officialdom the cloak
land dressmakers came to the picket
line to his defense. In the case of
the Cohn and Jacobson & WORTH
more, where one of our workers was
discharged, twenty-seven out of the
thirty operators in the shop went
down in sympathy with her. This
shop was the greatest surprise to
the clique. A shop where the for
mer president of the Joint Board
and a former vice-president of the
international are working, shop
where the workers have taken little
interest in the work and life of the
union, expected that not a word
would be said in the defense of the
discharged workers, but they were
mistaken. The workers of Cohn and
with the discharged worker and only
Jacobson came down in sympathy
after two days of persuasion and
intimidations did the clique succeed
in getting some of the workers to
go back to work. Today there are
eighteen of the workers out on
strike and the strike is as lively as
ever.
The Boston cloak and dressmakers
are not ready to fight for the in
ternational. The most die-hard right
wingers realize the injustice COM
mitted by the international clique all
thru these years. They also know
that if a fight starts in the shops
the pressers, the cutters and every
other worker in the shop is going to
suffer and they refuse to take up
The fight for the international
against their own brothers whom
they know as the best union men
and women.
The determination of the workers
to build their union, the answers
that the business agents receive from
the workers in the shops, the shop
meetings held every night in the
headquarters Of the N. o. c., the re-
sponse on the picket-line in the de-
Tense of the locked out workers
everything is working against the
clique, a terrible Generalization is
letting in their own ranks. Every
worker, right or left, feels that the
light which the international started
Boston, is not fight for the good
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