The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-13
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ONE UNION, COAL
OF CONFERENCE
OF FUR LOCALS
Cooper Union Meet to
Open Drive Wednesday

Delegates representing nearly
every furriers' local in the United
States and Canada met in confer
ence here last night and decided to
form an international united-front
committee for the purpose of build
ing one union in the fur manufac-
turing and fur dressing industry.
In addition to official representa-
tives from bona fide out-of-town To-
Gals, affiliated with the Internar
tional Fur Workers Union of the
A. F. of L., the conference included
the leaders of the left wing New
York Joint Board and of the Pro-
gressive Bloc of the right wing
Joint Council of this city. This con-
ference decided to build a genuine
national organization upon the ruins
of the A F. of L. organization
wrecked by it's socialist-A. F. of L.
leadership.
After constituting themselves as
an official body, the united confer
ence, as first step, voted to call
a mass meeting this Wednesday
night, August Is, at Cooper Union,
for the immediate mobilization of
the workers in the industry to begin
the erection of the union.
A. F. of L. Admits Defeat.
The International Fur Workers
Union was destroyed when the A
F. of L. chiefs, socialists and bosses
joined in wrecking the union because
of its left wing policy and leader
ship. The recent publication of Sc
cret letters between Edward F. Nc
Grady, A. F. of L. agent in the fun
industry and Abraham I. Shiplacoff
I leader Of the right wing forces ir
the New York Jewish labor move
ment, have revealed that the right
wing fur union is about to go out
of existence.
Officially pledging to enter the
fight in a united and determined
effort to lead the masses in a strug-
gle to build real furriers' union,
representatives at the conference
unanimously adopted the following
decla1 alton:
"The reorganization of the New
York Joint Board and it's component
locals has resulted in the break
down of the organizational power
Of the Joint Board and of every
other local of the International Fur
Workers Union of the U. S. and
Canada. The employers have taken
the fullest advantage of this situa-
tion to undermine the union control
and to deprive the workers of their
hard won concessions. The furriers
and fur dressers have thus been
robbed of their union standards and
union wages, and plunged into des-
spair and empoverishment.
Sweat Shops Increase.
GAS a result of this state of af-
fairs, the number of open shops and
sweat shops in the fur manufactur-
ing industry and particularly in the
fur dressing industry have increased
to an alarming degree and further
threaten the existence of even the
present miserable standards. The
locals all over the U. S. and Canada
are thus in imminent danger of be-
ing completely wiped out of exist
ence.
"The attempt to reorganize the
New York Joint Board and its COM
ponent locals, the backbone of the
! international Union, has not only
rendered the international and in
competent and worthless instrument,
but despite the alarming condition
of every local union, the Interna-
tional officials also chose to con-
tinue the destructive internal war
fare, and therefore assume the role
of direct union breaking agency
To Build One Union.
"In view of the foregoing, the un-
dersigned have gathered in confer
ence in New York City and pledged