The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-25
NEEDLE WORKERS
CALL CONFERENCE
Shop Delegates to Lay
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that only the Workers (Communist)
Party supports them in their strug-
giles, and is the only political or
ganizat.on that stands with them in
their great task Of building q new
fighting union of all needle work.
eIs.
Outstanding Fighters.
Outstanding fighters in needle
trades struggles, workers who have
led the cloak and dressmakers and
the furriers in their strikes and bat
ties against Tammany injunctions,
socialist and A. F. of L. betrayals,
and are now leading them in build
ing their new union, are candidates
on the Workers (Communist) Party
ticket, standard bearers of the only
anti-capitalist party in America.
These are:
Ben Gold, manager of the New
York Joint Board of the F'urriers
Union, Communist candidate in the
Twenty third Congressional District,
Bronx.
Samuel Liebowitz, assistant man.
ager of the Furriers Joint Board,
candidate in the Twenty-fourth Con-
gressional District, Bronx.
Charles Zimmerman, manager of
the dress department of the Cloak
and Dressmakers Union, now part
of the needle trades National Or
ganization Committee, and also
chairman of the organization COM
mittee of the N. 0. c., Workers
(Communist) Party candidate for
assembly in the Fourth Assembly
District, Bronx.
Joseph Borochovitz, manager of
Local 2, Cloak Operators, of the N.
O. G., and also vice-chairman of the
National Organization Committee,
Communist candidate for state SEN
ate in the Twenty-second Senatorial
1lSCflcU, Bronx.
Samuel Liptzin, a leader of the
tailors in New York, expelled by
the union bureaucracy from the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union for his activity in behalf OF
the tailors and his uncompromising
struggle against the Hillman-Beck-
erman machine, candidate for as
sembly in the Twenty second Assem-
bly, District, Brooklyn.
These candidates and other lead
ing needle trades fighters will be
the principal speakers at the open
air rallies which the Needle Trades
Campaign Committee has decided to
hold in every section of the city
where cloak and dressmakers, fur
riers, cap and millinery workers, and
tailors live. Two such rallies have
already been held in the Bronx and
in Harlem. Three others are planned
for Saturday night, Sept. 20, in
Williamsburg, Brownsville and East
New York. In addition to these
street meetings, which will be held
regularly, needle workers Red
Nights are planned. A committee
of rs speakers has been formed to
carry the program of the Workers
(Communist) Party to the needle
workers throughout the city, and
mobilize them for support Of the
Communist candidates.
Indoor Mass Meetings.
Besides the street campaign raj
lies, indoor mass meetings will be
arranged in various sections Of the
city during the month of October.
The Needle Trades Communist Cam
paign Committee will conduct an in
tensive drive frcun now until elec-
ton day to mobilize the masses of
needle workers for the Communist
campaign. Vote Communist! is the
slogan around which thousands OF
cloak and dressmakers, furl-iers
milliners and tailors will be rallied
in the elections, 20 strike a blow
against the Tammany and repub-
lican machine and the socialist be-
trayers, who have combined to fight
the needle trades progressives, and
t. protest against the entire cap
italist system under which needle
trades as well as all other workers
suffer.