The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-30
NEEDLE TRADES
TAKERS REIGN
IN QUAKER CITY
Betrayer of Workers Is
Continual
(Bv q Worker Correspondent.l


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, (By MaiD.
The present situation in the Phila-
delphia locals of the Cloak and Dress
makers Union is a reflection of the
achievements" of the bureaucracy in
the I. L. G.. w. U. The union-smash-
ing campaigns waged by Sigman
with the purpose Of driving the mill
tants out of the organization resulted
in a general chaos in the Philadel-
phia locals. The main part of the
dress industry is unorganized Wages
are cut so low that the standard
reaches 500 of two years ago. The
few bosses controlled by the union
being sure not to find any resistance
on the part of the union officials
take advantage of the situation and
depress conditions so far that there
is not much difference between a
union and open shop.
The clique in control of the locals
being a prominent link in the Sig
man machine, are engaged in quiet
but intensive campaign to aid the
machine in its struggle, at the same
time to create the impression that
they are willing to fight for the in
terest of the workers. The clique CON
Quoted so-called organization cam
paign last year. It was supposed to
have been an answer to the urgent
and general demand for organiza-
tional work. For the purpose of, this
organization campaign $4,000 was
borrowed from the Hosiery Workers
Union and shipped to New York to
help in the struggle against the mem
bers of the New York organization.
And as a result of the campaign
came the organization of the Manu-
facturers' Association, and an agree
ment was reached between the union
and the association. Now the fake
nature of this agreement is obvious to
all. The clique decided to call it a
gain" This "gain" is now referred
to as a platonic relationship between
the union and the association. But
this platonic relationship neverthe-
less robbed the union of the right to
strike in any of the association shops
And in spite of the fact that the
bosses never had in mind to comply
with any decision in the agreement
the union officials were "true" to the
agreement to the last minute it ex.
PRED.
Another organization campaign
was started this year. With the ex-
perience of the last years betrayal
which is still fresh in the memory Of
the workers, with general chaos pre-.
vailing in the industry, having a big
unorganized field and being tied up
with the famous agreement of last
year, the unions started campaign
to tackle single shops and organized
them one by one.
It is more than two months since
this campaign was started. What are
the results of the organization com,
mittee? They succeeded in getting
two shops out on strike. The Pioneer
Waist Co., having about 35 workers
and the Queen with 7 workers. The
strike in the Pioneer Co. was ended
with an agreement reached which
was nothing more than a new edition
of the existing meaningless agree
ment with the association. And two
days later discharge of active union
workers took place, and again the
workers in this company went on
strike until the boss agreed to rein.
state the discharged ones. And with
the Queen Company, which is an in.
dependent shop, after a days strike
an agreement was reached but there
is no union representative in the
shop and the boss does not hire his
workers thru the union.
The organizat;onal campaign still