The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-26
TUUL CALLS FOR
Millinery TRADE
WORKERS FIGHT
Exposes Zaritsky; All
to Picket Fairview

the Chicago capmakers and ruined
their local union No. 5. The cor
rupt officers have destroyed the
Chicago millinery Local 81 and now
through shameful maneuver with
the bosses have brought about a
lockout of the Chicago millinery
workers. With the aid of gang
sters, police, courts and injunctions,
the Zaritsky clique has expelled the
leaders of the Boston cap local No.
7 and broken up the local union.
With the same methods Zaritsky
and his paid ieutenants have
smashed the millinery Locals So and
"A of Boston and Philadelphia.
ain the most vile manner Zarit-
sky and Co. started a bloody attack
upon the biggest and most progress
sive local of the International, the
largest local of women in America,
the Millinery Local 43.
"The Zaritsky machine carries on
its destructive work according to a
systematic plan worked out jointly
with the bosses, the socialist party
and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and
is bound up with all the poisonous
enemies of the workers. Conscious
ly the Zaritsky clique is spreading
chaos and decentralization in the
ranks of the workers; is destroying
the unity of the workers; is weak
ening their resistance and their
struggling spirit; is aiding the
bosses in introducing piece work,
standards of production, in cutting
wages and in carrying out reorgan-
izations by discharging the most
conscious union workers, as in the
case of the Fairway Hat Co.
"It is not with constructive but
destructive work that the Zaritsky
clique concerns itself. 1t cannot
show single instance where it or
ganized a new local union. Tens of
thousands of dollars of workers
money, collected in dues, taxes and
in the unemployment fund are used
by the. Zaritsky machine to hire
gangsters and politicians in order
to destroy the union. Thousands of
dollars, robbed from the suffering
unemployed cap and millinery work.
ers, were given by Zaritsky to the
Sigman-Schlesinger- McGrady COM
pany unions.
"The facts prove conclusively that
the Zaritsky clique serves the
bosses and betrays the workers. 1t
is small wonder, therefore, that out
of the 10000 cap and millinery
workers in the U. S. A. only few
thousands of them belong to the
Zaritsky company union. The work
ing conditions in the so-called union
shops are not better than those of
the thousands of workers shaving in
the open shops. Due to the open
and shameful betrayal of the Zarit-
sky clique the conditions of the
workers are worsening. The Zarit-
sky gang is fighting the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
the only union in the needle trades
based on the class struggle, which
is today struggling for the interests
of the workers.
"The strike of the workers against
the Fairway Hat Co. indicates their
protest and anger against the Ia
risky gang. The millinery workers
of Local 43, affiliated with the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, are fighting together with
the operators, who were thrown out
of their jobs because of the con-
spiracy of the Zaritsky clique with
the bosses. The hired gangsters and
the notorious thugs Of the CLUB"
make murderous attacks upon the
pickets and help the bosses break
the strike. An injunction against
the strikers has already been taken
out by the Zaritsky clique and the
bosses.
"The Cap and Millinery Section
of the Trade Union Unity League
calls upon the cap and millinery
workers, -trimmers, operators
and blockers, to unite in the strug-
gle against the bosses, the gangs
tiers, the Zaritsky clique and the
courts; in a struggle for higher
standards of living, against piece
work, speed-up, reorganization,
wage cuts; in struggle against Ia
risky company unionism for indus
trial unionism, struggle to organ
ize the unorganized.
"The strike of the workers against
the Fairway Hat Co. must be won!
The Zaritsky traitors must be
driven out of the union!
"a united front Of all cap and
millinery workers for the defense
against the enemy must Immediately
be organized!
"Cap and millinery workers!
Come to the picket line formed
against the Fairway Hat Co! A
strike should be the answer to every
attempt Of the bosses and Zaritsky
to rob you of union conditions!
defend yourself against the Ia
risky gangsters
Help build the Industrial Union!
Join the Cap and Millinery Sec
ton of the T.U.U.L.!
Organize shop committees in
every shop! The committees to con-
sist of representatives of all
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