The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-20
AMALCAMATED
tail ORS CALLED
TO CONFERENCE
TUEL of Amalgamated
Calls for Fight
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and organizations are the achleNe-
ments of the Hillman- Beckerman-
Schlossberg clique.
The workers have lost all faith
m their leadership. Every cutter,
tailor, operator and presser feels
and suffers from the achievements"
of the Hillman leadership. Hillman
now realizes that his throne is en-
dangered. Hillman accuses Becker
man Of being guilty for the pre-
vailing conditions. Beckerman ac-
cuscs Hillman of being the guilty
ono. hut we, the tailors, know the
truth. We know that they are all
guilty, guilty Of the crime Of ruin
ing the lives and victimizing thous-
aEds upon thousands of tailors, as
a result of their policies of betrayal
of the interests of the workers.
With their policy Of reducing the
cost of production in union shops to
those of the non-union shops, they
brought about a situation where the
worker must work sixty and seventy
hours under a back-breaking, in
human speed-up system, in order to
earn a meagre living for his FAM
lily. AS a result of the speed-up
system, thousands of workers are
being made permanently unemploy-
ed. The conditions in New York
have developed situation so bad
that they are now bringing the fas-
cist gangster leader, Mr.. Risman,
from Chicago for the purpose of
taking the New York bundles back
to Chicago in order to cover up his
achievements" of helping the Chi
cage employers to force upon the
workers Hillman's speed-up schemes
of production, in order to blind the
unemployed to the real source of
their misery.
During the last few weeks the
clique has been meeting continually,
discussing NEW plans; they speak
of amalgamation, Capitalization and
utter other long words, but we, the
workers, know that behind these
beautiful phrases new plans of be-
trayal are being hidden, new plans
to still further enslave the tailors.
Their plan for amalgamation of To-
Gals is in reality plan to unite all
graft cliques; their plan that the
bosses reduce dues and taxes from
The workers wages (check-off sys-
tem) serve only the interests of the
corrupt officialdom.
Where are the plans to improve
the conditions of the workers?
Where are the plans to unite the
workers for struggle against the
bosses and against those who have
reduced our union to a bosses
union, to a mere company union?
There is not a tailor who would
except the Hillmans, Beckermans
and Schlossbergs to propose such
plans to them.
Such plans the workers them
selves must formulate. For this
purpose, we are calling a rank and
file shop delegate conference of all
mems clothing workers, children's
clothing workers and shirt makers
to be held Saturday and Sunday,
Feb. % and "a at Stuyvesant Ca
sine, End Ave. and Sth St.
Every shop must be represented.
Every worker who is ready to fight
for better conditions, every worker
who realizes the necessity for a
union to serve the interests of the
workers, every worker who suffers
from the inhunlan speed-up system
in the shops, every worker who re-
alizes the danger of company-union-
ism, must see to it that his shop
sends representatives to the con-
ference in order that, with united
ranks like the dressmakers, cloak
makers and furriers, he will be able
to organize for a struggle against
the bosses and their agents in our
union.
Send representatives to the shop
delegate conference.
Fight against piece-work.
Fight against the check-off sys-
tenn.
Fight against Hillman's fake
amalgamation
Fight for union to serve the
interests of the workers.
Fight for the unity of all needle
trades workers.
Support the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union.