The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-09
TELLS or FIGHT
AGAINST BOSSES
AND S. P. TAKERS
Calls All Workers to
Support Real Union

From the headquarters of thu
Needle Trades Workers industrial
Union has come a declaration to thu
labor movement. This il
the first official statement to be is
sued by the new left wing uniol
since its formation at a five-da!
ending recently. Afte'
stating in detail the reasons for thu
establishment of the new industrial
union, the declaration appeals to thu
workers for support in its figh
against the bosses and the labol
takers.
The declaration follows:
Brothers and Sisters!
The bitter struggle OF the past
few years conducted by the thou
sands of needle trades workers
against the bosses and the cor
rupt union bureaucracy; the
bloody attacks of the bosses and
their agents, the right wing Of
ficialdom of the needle trades
unions; their attempts to convert
the unions into company unions
has forced the cloakmakers, dress
makers and furriers to call con-
vention of elected representatives
of all the organized locals through
out the country to organize a new,
industrial union.
For the first time in the his
tory of the needle trades unions
the conservative and destructive
system of artificial divisions and
separate craft organizations was
officially done away with at his
toric and an enthusiastic rank and
file convention of the cloakmak-
ers, dressmakers and furriers,
held in the beginning OF January,
1929, at the New Star Casino,
New York. At this convention
the National Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union of the United
States of America was officially
organized. The convention did
away with the system Of clique
rule, practiced by the reactionary
and corrupt right officialdom.
The new industrial union was or
ganized on the basis of rank and
file leadership 1.-THE shop delegate
SYSTEM. The large number Of as
sembled delegates at this conven-
ton unanimously condemned and
repudiafed the treacherous policy
of DISQUALIFICATION" praeticed
by the A. F. of L. and socialist
union bureaucrats, and unani-
mously decided that the new in
dustrial union shall carry OIL its
activities on the basis of the class
struggle. The convention most
emphatically condemned the union
smashing methods of and treach-
cry committed by the right wing
officials against the organized
workers in general, and the needle
trades workers in particular. and
proclaimed the revolutionary slo-
gan of the working class-Work-
ers Of All Countries Unite!
The New Industrial Union Instru-
ment of Struggle for the
Workers.
The National Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union was
horn in struggle against the
bosses and the labor traitors; it
was organized so that the daily
struggle of the workers for bet
ter conditions may be conducted
in the most effective way. The
convention has laid the founda-
ton for a new union Of workers
and has adopted decisions opening
new avenues for widespread or
ganizational activities. The adopted
policies and methods for struggle
and for the administration of the
union do away with the possibility
for an organized clique of a few
individuals to become the unre-
stricted rulers of the union, as is
the case in the craft unions DOM
mated by the A. F. of L. and So
cialist union bureaucrats.
The new industrial needle trades
union will be conducted in line
with the adopted convention poll
cies, which guarantee that the
membership alone shall be the ac-
tual administrators and leaders of
the union and shall have complete
control over the activities of their
elected officers. The convention
has given the right to the mem
bers to recall the officers who
will not serve the interests of the
workers Loyalty or will in any way
renounce the fundamental policies
approved by the convention. The
convention condemned the destruc-
tive tactics of the right union
splitters in expelling honest and
active union workers for their po-
litical convictions and for their
affiliation with political parties
other than those of the official
leadership. The National Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
recognizes and respects the right
of every member to his political
convictions and affiliations; the
industrial union recognizes the
workers as a class, regardless of
their nationality, religion, race,