The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-18
CLOAK COMMITTEE
ISSUES ACTION CALL
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of the workers are intolerable and
that they themselves have brought the
workers to the edge of the abyss which
threatens to engulf them.
The responsible union representa-
tives, chosen by the rank and file,
realized that the hour for action has
struck. A conference was called of
all elements who want to unite the
ranks of the workers and rebuild the
union. The conference met with i'm
mediate response. Even these ele-
ments, who hitherto had believed in
the possibility Of a settlement with
the Sigman machine, were finally con-
WINGED that the only way to build the
union is to unite all the active and
constructive forces, and they were
drawn into the work.
"On Wednesday, May the 8, 1928,
the foundation was laid for the re-
building of their union. A wave of
enthusiasm gripped the conference, as
well as the mass of the membership
who have followed it's proceedings. 4
resolute decision, as firm and unyield-
ing as steel, rose in the hearts of all
We can and will rebuild our union.
We can and will curb the domination
of the bosses in the shops. We can
and viii improve our daily lives and
cease to be slaves. We can make
sacrifices. We are accustomed to
sacrifice. But the union will live and
flourish
Begin At Bottom.
"In the name of this conference, we
call to you, brothers and sisters! The
time has come when we alone, all Of
us, shall take up the struggle. We
must begin from the very foundation,
from the shops. In every shop the
workers must organize themselves i'm
mediately and choose shop representa-
tives, shop chairmen and shop COM
mittees. Get to work at once! Ar
range shop meetings-elect shop
chairmen-and wherever you have no
shop representatives or where the
clique has forced it's supporters on
you, act like organized warriors. Es-
tablish everywhere the motto: "One
for all and all for one"
The shop chairmen of every city
will be united in a shop chairmans
council, which will serve as our di-
rect contact with the workers in the
shops. The shop chairmen's councils
elected and controlled by the workers
themselves must be the foundation on
which our organization will rest. In
every city we will organize special
organization committee that will take
in the largest possible number of
active rank and filers. The organ
ization committees will work hand in
hand with the National Organization
Committee. The object of the organ
ization committee will be to imme-
diately get to work in organizing the
open cloak and dress shops, and to
establish union conditions everywhere.
Workers! Brothers and sisters!
Take up the work. Enough disin-
tegration enough helplessness -
enough freedom for the eXploiters.
We must rebuild our union every
where, in the large as we'll as the
small centers, in the large as well as
small shops. Thru our organized
power we can accomplish amazing re-
suits. Single-handed we are helpless.
I'VE must re-establish the 4O-hour
week which we have won thru our
sacrifices in the strike of 1926. The
Sigman pogrom has made it impos-
sible for us to enjoy the fruits of our
victory, and so long as either Sigman,
Schlesinger or any other representa-
tive of the clique will be in power,
they will sabotage our struggle for
the 4O-hour week. Only we, the work
ers alone, thru our organized power
can regain this victory. We must re-
establish the minimum scale of wages
which the bosses together with the