The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-17
TRACTION BAR0NS BEHIND AL SMITH SLUSH FUND
SPEAKERS AT BIG
CLOAK MEETS RAP
SIGMAN AMNESTY
Fake Scheme Exposed
by Hyman, Borochowich

With an enthusiasm seldom
equalled in the history of needle
trades workers mass gatherings, 1880
cloak and dressmakers here, crowded
! to capacity Cooper Union and Web
ster Hall yesterday and unanimously
decided to fight the misunderstanding
cliques of Sigman and Schlesinger I'M
! til they have regained union condi-
lions in the shops, and rebuilt the
union shattered by the reactionary In
ternational union officialdom.
The meetings We're called by the
National Conference of the progress
sive delegates locked out of the con-
Ivention of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union in order to
bring to the New York membership
report of the continued intentions
of the bureaucrats to fight against
unionism in the industry.
Pass Resolution.
The speakers were Louis Hyman,
manager of the Joint Board, Joseph
Borachovich, Sasha Zimmerman, Rose
Wortis, j. Levine, manager of the
Chicago Joint Board, and A. Lutsky,
progressive delegate from the Los
Angeles local. Harry Berlin, of Local
10, was chairman.
The speakers at the other meeting
in Webster Hall were: Ida Rothstein,
from Chicago, l. Goretsky, l. Weiss
berg and Saul Shelly, chairman of the
Committee of so.
The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted:
"We, the cloakmakers and dress
makers, assembled at mass meetings
in Cooper Union and Webster Hall,
declare that we, the workers, who
have devoted years Of our lives to the
building of our union SO that it may
serve as an instrument in defense of
our interests, will never submit to the
domination of the cliques who jointly
with the bosses have converted our
organization into company union
and desire to reduce the workers of
our trade to submissive slaves of the
bosses.
Repudiate Convention"
"We repudiate the fake Boston con-
vention and their fake manifesto, in
tended to perpetuate the discredited
cliques in power. We brand it as
new scheme to trick the members out
of their fundamental right to demo-
cratic administration of the affairs
of their union and to keep them I'M
der the iron heel of the cliques' dom
ination.
eve give our fullest endorsement
to the National Organization Com
mittee, which is aiming to unite all
the constructive elements in our
union in an effort to mobilize the
mass of the workers throughout the
entire country in order to rebuild our
union and re-establish our union con-
ditions.
eve call on the National Organiza-
ton Committee to begin immediate
preparations for an organization
drive to unionize the thousands of
workers who had been forced into
open shops as a result of the war
brought upon us, and to mobilize the
WOIkerS. III Inc union SnOpo W Ie-SS-
tablish union conditions"
The so-called amnesty decision,
passed at the convention of the union
wreckers still in session in Boston,
announced that Communists would be
permitted to Renter the union, but
would never have the right to run
for office. This fake resolution fools
nobody, an announcement from Joint
Board office states: "It is clearly
understood by the masses of cloak
and dressmakers to be declaration
that the war against them will be
continued" The militant delegates
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