The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-08
Who Are the Enemies of the Needle
Trades Workers?

York strike which promises to begin period IN the
lives of the oppressed workers of the entire needle industry
Within an hour after the needle workers out
the street determined and for all to smash through the
terrible conditions in the dress industry hear from
Mr. Benjamin Schlesinger yellow socialist and president of
the bosses scab union in the industry Did Mr. Schesinge
say anything about the nsufferabe conditions the miserable
and other hardshps which have driven the workers
to fight No Did Mr. Schesinger- alleged abor" leader
express any wish that the workers upon whose unondues
lived many years. should win improvement in these
conditions? No. Schesnger head of the bosses company
union, had only one idea to express
any is by the Needle Workers
scabs) in the shops which have signed with us
smeanng with the scab unon) 1--WE will make
certed effort to have the POLICE protect the shops"
At the moment the yellow socialist Schesinger ut
tering this unspeakabe treason the poceaes of Schles
niger and the bosses at work committing the
crimes which he threatened For asking the workers in the
Bernard shop West oath st. to come down. strike,
Henry Rosemond coored fur worker of the leaders of
the strike member of the Joint Board of the Union
hit the head with iron pipe stabbed and knocked I'M
conscious by the police accomplices of Mr.. Schesnger
simultaneously the police busy arresng members of
the Union for distributing the strike CALL
For long time have been pointing out that the
cas party and the tradeunion bureaucras have become
fact "a party of the police and srikebreakers Already
thousand times this has been When Schlesnger
denounce this strike for the right to live, IAN out
rage and candalous it is only another proof that the
right wing precisely the level of the worst
fessonal skbreakng thugs who hire out by the day at
strke-breakng The difference if there lies in the
cowardce of the Socialist bueaucrats who dare not meet
the workers the picket ne but who merely sit in uxur
offices SANDER and threaten the workers This proo
type of yellow ureaucras not only ISLANDERS the workers who
strike but also attacks the Workers (Communis
Party because is the and only party of class the
only party which does not betray the workers His hatred
the needle workers who threw off his treacherous leader
ship exceeded only by his hatred of the which
the workers have for themselves in the Union of So
ciaist Soviet Republics. He lies about the strike he
the police to crack the heads of the workers for the benefit
of himself and the BOSSES and he his the
workers cause world scale.
This is not Schesinger alone who speaks yell
low socialist bureaucrat speaking for the whole aggega
ton of the socialist party and the crooked reacherous
swindling bureaucrats and the bosses.
Is there single worker in New York who doubts the
guilt of this caous bunch of strkebreakers? If
honest worker still doubts that Schlesnger the socialist party
and the Forward in outright conspiracy with the
scab Bosses let them read the following words of F. c.
Rogers of the Wholesale Dressmakers Association published
Wednesday in the bosses newspaper "Womens Wear
Speaking for the scab dress employers, Rogers said:
eve perfected arrangement Rights
by the workers will be into the vacancies with little delay
with the Rights the production of
ISOLATION members and of those firms calling the
ton for assistance will be maintained"
So the treason of the socialist strkebreakers
brazen that they do not conceal It, lar as
the bosses trade paper is concerned They only lie very
shalowly) in the socialist for boobs to read
Who the needle workers enemies in this strike?
Answer: The bosses AND the socialist trade union
bureaucrats.
The bosses and the bureaucrats of the A. of l..
pany union the police AND the AND the state
power the bosea these the forces lined against
the workers.
But the workers have a and more powerful union
weapon than they had before The union the
workers unon-not the bosses union, which the old
Sigman Schesnger scab union is 1t is not craft
union dividing the workers. but industrial union uniting
the workers. and which will ultimately unite all the workers
of the entire needle trades industry has leader
Ship chosen by the workers themselves held to their duty
by the workers. and subject to recall by the workers if they
do not perform their duties militant leaders of class
struggle The workers have confidence in this leadership
Again say that the dress strike must not be
ceived conducted merely craft strike single branch
of light industry Industrial unionsm and the class strug
gle must be the strong guiding line in this strike The future
and the present needs of the dress makers and of the needle
workers and the working class must be held in view at
moment Then we will see that dressmakers' strike