The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-29
CALL is ISSUED
DENOUNCINC The
8 BOSS PARTIES
To Lay Definite Plans
at Meet

w orkerS in the needle trades in
dustry of New York were yester-
day called to elect delegates and
representatives of their labor or
EXAMINATIONS and factories to a con-
ference called to endorse the presi-
Dental candidates running in the
fall elections on the ticket of the
Workers (Communist) Party. The
call was distributed in the thousands
in the markets and gathering places
of needle trades, workers, by the
Needle Trades Campaign Commit
tee. 1t was signed by Aaron Gross,
leader of the Furriers' Union as
chairman, and I. Steiner, chairman
of the Cloakmakers Joint Board as
secretary.
Cites Bitter Struggles.
After showing in its appeal the
anti-working class character of the
three boss parties, republican, demo-
cratic and socialist, the call states
the conference will be held Tuesday
evening Oct. 9, at o'clock, in
Bryant Hall, 42nd st. and Sixth
Ave. The appeal declares:
Within the next few weeks we
will be called upon to cast our votes
in the coming presidential election
I'VE, the needle trade workers,
have gone thru a bitter struggle
during the past few years; a strug-
gle in which we had to meet the
combined hostile forces of the So
eialist trade union bureaucracy, the
bosses and the capitalist state, with
its democratic and republican
judges; struggle in which we have
seen the interests of the workers
sold out to the bosses by the mis-
leaders of the union, and where
every attempt of the workers to de-
fend their union and union condi-
tions was met with the full power
of the brutal police force of the
democratic Mayor Walker and Gov
ernor Smith, whom the bureaucrats
Of the American Federation of La
Dor have endorsed as "the friend of
labor"
Socialists Are Enemies.
1.-THE experience of the past few
years have demonstrated to the
workers that the socialist party,
(under whose leadership the pogrom
against the needle trade workers
was launched), just as the big capt.
talist parties, is only an instrument
Of oppression against the workers
The struggle has thought the work
ers of our industry to distinguish
their friends and their enemies. 1T
has taught them the need for
building real unions, controlled by
the rank and file 1t has taught
them the need of a real political
party of the working class which
will stand ready to defend the in
terests of the mass of workers
against the bosses and their agents
Nov the time has come when the
workers of our industry must trans
late these lessons into definite ac-
ton. During this coming presiden-
tial campaign the needle trade
workers will have an opportunity to
demonstrate that their bitter experi-
ences of the past few years have not
been in vain, that as a class-con.
scious worker they will throw their
entire support to that party which
has championed their interest. that
party which has always been the
first to support every effort of the
workers of our industry as well as
other industries to improve their
conditions, The Workers (Commun-
ist) Party.
Ready to Fight.
; LET this conference be the an
sswer of the needle trade workers to
jail tha acts of treachery of the So
scialist party, the instigator and
,leader of the present struggle. Let
this conference in no uncertain
terms tell all the enemies of the
Wy A NT IN n"AY