The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-04

hoWn yesterday when Mayor
services as an arbitrator on
>the second day of the fake STOP
page in the cloak trade. This
hypocritical gesture on his part
is supported by the right wing of
ficials who are quite willing that
Walker exploit the present situation
for political capital.
Fights Strikers.
Walker, under whose administra-
tion thousands of fur, cafeteria. iron
and other strikers have been clubbed,
jailed and terrorized, invited the L.
l.. G. w. chieftains and representa-
tives of the bosses to meet with him
tomorrow at noon.
The leaders of the present fake
stoppage of the cloakmakers have
for many years been on the most
cordial of terms with the corrupt,
labor-hating Tammany Hall gang
which only recently fired 800 city
engineers because they demanded a
wage increase.
Supported Tammany.
During the last election campaign
it was revealed that the |. L. G. w.
clique had received $4,000 from Col.
Herbert Lehman, banker and pres
ent lieutenant-governo on the un-
derstanding that votes of cloak
makers would be delivered" to the
Tammany candidates. In 1919
Schlesinger, the president of the l.
l.. G. W., on the official stationery
of the organization, enthusiastically
endorsed the candidacy for state
senator of Irwin Untermyer, son of
the corporation lawyer, Samuel
Untermyer.
On the second day of the stop
page, the clique found convenient
excuse for the miserable response in
their halls by the alibi that large
numbers of the cloakmakers had
gone to beaches and other nearby
resorts for the July 4th holiday.
The capitalist press, contrary to
its handling of genuine labor strug-
giles, yesterday continued to carry
columns of phoney publicity, giving
fantastic figures in connection with
the stoppage, some of them report
ing twice as many workers tout"
as actually work in the New York
trade.
Women's Wear, the trade organ
of the manufacturers, which on the
day of the fake stoppage admitted
that the move was primarily aimed
to build the company union of the
bosses, yesterday again spilled the
beans.
'Finishing Garments"
Substantiating the charge made
by the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union last week that the
stoppage had been postponed be-
cause many bosses had not provided
themselves with sufficient samples,
Women's Wear in yesterdays issue
badly states:
"In both Council shops and in
shops of the submanufacturers'
group, it was reported that ma
jority of the relatively few work
ers who remained were finishers
engaged in putting garments thru
the last processes of manufacture.
Some employers cited the fact that
the finishers were allowed to re-
main, while other workers struck
as proof of good will existing be-
tween themselves (the bosses) and
their workers"
And at another point: "The firms
no surprise over the walk
out. They point out that Council
officials (thef boss association ad-
vised that no employees be retained
in instances in which it appeared
that majority would respect the
strike call"
Cloakmakers, members of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, yesterday continued to dis
tribute the call of the union urging
the workers to convert the fake
stoppage Of the Schlesinger-Dubin-
sky clique into real strike for
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