The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
The New Union in Action

usually the case with struggle single branch of light
industry.
This is struggle of workers who have liberated them
selves from of labor fakers traitors and
professional strkebreaking leaders that fastened it.
self upon the neck of organized workers. 1t strike against
the coalition of gament-manuacturing BOSSES allied with
trade-union officials the yellow socialist party and the
present-day national open-shop movement
1t is strike against the conditions in the dress industry
which the coalition of eows and bosses had established by
systematic collaboration in breaking down union shop cond
lions in series of long strike against the 5Ohour
week. against starvation against the rght
deprive any worker of his job at pleasure the
unmtgated slavery of the pecewo system and the sweat
shop.
response the workers to the strike call of the
union proves that the time ripe that the workers
ready make the fight for the 40our fveday week. for
the minimum SCALE that they ready to fight for the
abolition of the pecework system and the OF
the weekwok system for the limitation of contractors the
abolition of discharge and the recognition of the union
In fact the continued spirit of struggle shown by the
workers. their splendid defiance of the efforts of police
BOSSES private gunner and Socialists has compelled the
New York bosses of the entire needle industry already to
waver their fighting front 1t is absolutely estab
shed that resoue fighting continued without being fooled
into passive attitude win for the workers very de-
cded improvement the old agreement which the bosses
had fouted That old agreement drawn by the faker
lawyer of high finance for private profits in the labor move
ment, Mr.. Morris Hilqu long set aside by the
Bosses and is set aside well by History The strug
gle and the attitude of the bosses already show that Hill
quits provision allowing the bosses under the old agreement
to discharge worker "by agreement within two weeks of
his commencing work will be cast into the discard and the
strict rule of one week trial be established in the in
dustry the fight hard enough don't bend to
the first soft words of the Bosses The right of workers to
ceve full pay while awaiting decisions questions of dis
charge and the right to continue on the job while charges
of ineompeeney being investigated by the union
be won If theoretically fought for.
Already it is clear that continued fighting spirit of the
workers establish material advances wages and
clean sweep of the working hours 40 week.
TbaS 4b, Q NJa n hour
play tremendous role in the American labor movement at
this stage comparable to that of the 8hour day slogan of
so The fight under this 4ohour week slogan,
together with the fight against the speedup systematic
system by which the decentralization bosses rvetng
chains of uncomfortable slavery upon the workers not alone
this industry but throughout industry generaycouped
with the struggle for higher be confined to
the dress industry of New York. confined to the needle
industry whole Once these slogans crystaized by
the example of really militant struggle in the field of the
unonsm they will large sections of the working
class organized and unorganzed and will play large part
both in the building of unions and in the struggle
against the bosses agents in the old unions
Too much of the old traditions of the old craft unions
still to be found cngng to the skirts of the present strike
Though they led the workers from the DID, PREACHER
Gus, sitting leadership of the Sgmans Schlesingers and
Kaufmanns and made glorious page of labor history in
founding the union the present militant and loyal lead
ersp of the needle workers has not yet sufficiently cast
aside all of the traditions of the old organizations
Since the duty of the Communists must always be to march
ahead of all others in the struggles of the workers. this
tcsm cannot withheld from the Communists among the
leadership of the present STRIKE There is not sharp enough
with the old traditions of the Organization drive
which, the of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy
Quoted with the sole objective of enagng the boundaries
of the union although big difference is found in this
strikefor very substantial immediate economic gains for
the workers in hours and wages are being fought for
The leadership of the strike in many respects show
ing splendid example has nevertheless not put sufficient
emphasis upon the broadening of the strike too quick
readiness to accept agreements is indication of this.
The outstanding fact of the present strike is its proof
of the correctness of the left wing movement as expressed
in the program of the Trade Union Educational League
which is course supported by the Workers COMMUNIST
Party The present strike should be made more than it has
been thus far tremendous OF popuarzng the
full left wing program The workers in the New York dress
industry the members of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union whole necessarily regarded al
working in pioneer role which marks the path away from
the old, serve company of the yellow leaders
More than they should realize that the struggle Of thu
new industrial union under classconscious leadership,
break with the old craft unonsm under treacherous cor
rp leadership example for tens and hundreds Of thou
sands of other workers.
The militant courageous conduct Of the New Yorl
workers in the dress industry has already thrown sron
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