The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
APPLAUD END OF
SICMAN-BOSSES'
COMPANY union
National Convention to
Be Held Soon


makers, assembled last night at
giant mass meeting in Bronx Sta
dium. thundered a mighty YES"
for the passage Of the resolution
which heralded the launching of
new union in the ladies' garment
manufacturing industry.
Jamming tight all aisles, the
field and the bleachers of the huge
Bronx football park, the vast audi
ence declared their intention of re-
placing the ruins of the old Inter
national Ladies Garment Workers
Union with new workers organ
ization that will unionize the trade
nationally and restore bearable
working conditions to the factories,
when they were destroyed, together
with the old union, by the Social
ist"- -boss-police coalition.
Make Labor History.
With tremendous outbursts of en-
thusiastic applause, the crowd of
workers endorsed the declarations
of the leaders of the National Or
ganization Committee that a new
historic era was dawning for the
workers in the industry with the
successful holding of this meeting.
When Ben Gold, lebder of the
Furriers Joint Board, gave express
sion to these sentiments by saying,
"This is not a protest demonstra-
tion, this meeting is here to build"
the stadium rocked with deafening
applause.
Reject Rotted Structure.
The speakers, leaders of the N.
O. c., which will lead the drive to
! erect a powerful cloak, and dress 8
makers union, all echoed the deter
mination, of the masses to COM
pletely discard. every vestige of the
rotted structure led by the Sigman-
Schlesineer clique through their
agents and allies, bosses, police and
gangsters.
| For twenty-five months the cloak
makers have been suffering under
moro and more degrading sweat
shop conditions, due to the fact that
the right wing has destroyed the
once powerful cloakmakers union,
speakers declared. During all that
time we have called upon the right
wing to end the war against the
workers and make peace, they said,
but now, we call halt TO appeals
for peace, knowing that it is inn
possible to make peace with agents !
of the employers.
Tells of Struggles.
Charles S. Zimmerman, chairman
of the meeting, delivered the key
note of the sentiment of the gath
ering when he recounted the strug-
giles of the left wing against the
corruption and gangsterism of the
Sigman clique and the workers
fight for clean and honest union
of the membership.
Hyman Gets Ovation.
Louis Hynan, chairman of the
N. o. c., was received with great
ovation when he took his seat on
the speakers platform with Ben
Gold, leader of the left wing Fur
riers Joint BOARD.
Joseph Berachevick, Rose Wortis
and Julius Portnoy, three outstand-
ing leaders of the N. o. C. then
spoke. Other speakers were, Harry
Berlin, of Local 10, H. Korets of the
Organization Department, Saul
Shelly, of the one time impartial
committee of so; A. Gutesman Of
the former Tolerance Group.
The resolution unanimously car
ried by the thousands assembled
calls for the following immediate
measures:
We call on all registered work
ers to Immediately change their
books at the Joint Board. We callEs-
on all workers in our trade to rally
around the National Organization
Committee; to pay their dues and
the voluntary tax of $40 SO as to
raise the necessary funds with
which to carry thru a successful
organization campaign.
We call on our legally elected Of
ficers and the National Organiza-
ton Committee, under whose lead
ership we are launching our new
union, to make immediate prepara-
tions for general election in our
union under the supervision Of the
Council of Shop Delegates, on a
basis where all elements will be
able to participate in the leadership
and the work of building our Cloak
and Oressmakers' Union.
We call on the National Organi-
zation Committee to begin immedi-
ate preparation for a convention Of
true representatives of the ladies'
garment workers of the entire
country, so as to LAUGH our new
Ladies' Garment Workers Union ON
a national scale.