The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-30
RED TICKET ENDORSED
BY NEEDLE WORKERS

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council of the American Federation
of Labor, who demonstrated with
the Tammany police authorities of
New York City for not being suf-
ficiently harsh and brutal in deal
ing with the striking workers. Mr..
Green in his praise of Smith does
not speak for the rank and file of
labor, especially in New York state
where the iron fist of Tammany
Hall is known so well. Particularly
the needle trades workers have
learned to know the meaning of
Smithism through bitter expert
ence. They we'll remember how the
Governors Commission, working
hand in glove with the right wing
officials of the International Ladies
Garment Workers, sought to break
the strike of the cloakmakers.
"Time and again Tammany Hall
has demonstrated it's solidarity with
the manufacturers and the treach-
erous right wing leaders by the
ruthless police brutality displayed
against peaceful pickets, and by the
issuance of numerous injunctions
against workers on strike. The rec
ord of the Smith administration and
of Tammany Hall speaks louder
than the hypocritical catch-phrases
of Al Smith.
"The city administration under
Jimmie Walker or the state admin
istration under Al Smith, the So
called great friend of labor" re-
fused to give the slightest assist
ance or relief to the thousands Of
unemployed who tramped the
streets last winter suffering hun
ger and privation. On the contrary,
the Tammany Hall police did not
hesitate to use their clubs freely
whenever the unemployed sought to
organize to demand some medium of
relief. On the other hand Mr.. Smith
has cooperated with the traction
millionaires in their inhuman ex-
ploitation of the traction workers
and their attempt to mulct the
workers of the city by instituting a
seven-cent fare. The workers of
New York City may confidently ex-
pect that after Election Day they
will be blessed with the seven-cent
fare and the abolition of the emer-
gency rent laws.
"Time after time the representa-
tives of labor have, stormed the
gates of the capitol at Albany in
behalf of women and children in
industry, the sick, the aged and the
large toll of injured workers-only
to be rebuffed by both AL Smith
and the republican legislature.
"In view of these things, which
are matter of record, the masses
of the workers of New York state
will repudiate the action of those
who so basely spoke in their name in
behalf of labor's enemy, Al Smith,
and will demand an accounting for
this treacherous betrayal"
Eloquently setting forth the re-
peated betrayals of the workers in
terests by the Socialist" Party, and
the assistance in union wrecking
rendered to that party by the polit-
ical parties of the bosses, the reso-
luton adopted declares in part:
1--WE, needle trades workers, cloak
makers, dressmakers, furriers, tail
ors, cap and millinery workers, as
sembled in mass meeting at Irving
Plaza Hall on Wednesday, August
20, intellectually approve of the
action of the National Needle Trades
Committee, Trade Union Educa-
tional League, which has endorsed
the program and the candidates of
the Workers (Communist) Party.
"The last few years have been
for us a period of intense and con-