The daily worker., 1929-02-21
The Revolt Against Sidney Speedup Hillman


The organizaonal accomplishments and the spirit
of militant expressed in the founding of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union and in the present New
York dress strike will be reinforced very materially by the
Shop Delegates Conference call which addressed
yesterday by the New York section of the Trade Union
Educational League to all members of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers.
We have said that the strike and the present rug
gle large sections of the needle trades workers for emanc
patton the bosses agents who have ruled their organ
cations years and reduced the old unions to virtual
pany unions would have effects that must not and cannot
be confined to the relatively small original field but must be
extended the entire needle industry and far beyond its
borders to the of the organized and unoganzed
workers.
1t is welcome news to the cassconscious workers that
the movement against sweatshop conditions and corrupt
bossdden unonsm is at last making serious advances in
that baiwick of yellow unonism controlled by Messrs Hill
man, Beckerman, Schlossberg & Co.
Conditions in the Amagamated Clothing Workers have
their pecuiarties This union ITSELF in the first
place. born of the struggle against the corruption and boss
control OF the old United Garment Workers Union This his
torcal fact left popular conception of the Amagamaed
Clothing Workers Union something purer" than the
older organizations certain amount of radical phrase
ology used to hang in official circles and the fact
that the union only fifteen years from the strug
gle which BIRTH caused many workers to be slow to
wake up to the fact that Mr. Hlman has himself long
become little Gompers of the worst type surrounded by
corps of bureaucratic euenans and gangsers that would
make Bill Green green with envy Hman himself is fine
pecment of that type of parasite upon the body of organ
lied labor which gets into its place boodsucker in the
struggle radical against older and rival boodsuckers
AT throughout fifteen Hill
has kept Joe schossberg whose particular function
sisted largely in rolling sancmonous phraseslearned in
the reformist socialist labor party-wh enough radical
flavor and yet enough ambiguity to keep the workers under
this bureaucracy beudded with the notion that the leaders
fighting the bosses with whom Hlman in reality
arranged the system of collaboration for the
speedup system the blacklist merciless expulsions stimuli
taneously from the union and the shop, etc.
Today the Himan machine stands completely severed
from the rank and file of the unioncompete developed
bureaucracy and above the workers in whose life
thp
and the union bureaucrats Earlier in the of this de-
veopment there quarres between Hilman and the
Cahan gang of the Jewish Daily Forward and between Hill
and Beckerman outandout gangtercaptan of the
old school But these quarres quarre of rivalry for
the right to graft the workers the snecures of office
and profit Today the whole lineup of traitors against the
workers cooperate for the of hold
ing the Amagamated Clothing Workers virtual company
union with the inscription its banner Hearty Cooperation
with Employers"
So utterly abandoned has this gang of bureaucrats
that of its chief activities to peddle among cloth
ing manufacturers the theory that the workers the mems
clothing industry be exploited successfully with the
help of the agents of the Amagamated Clothing Workers
than without such cooperation" No longer has worker
in the clothing industry the slightest chance of being
favoraby heard in any complaint against boss registered
with the "unon."
The speedup system is the beau ideal of Sidney Hill
1t is the first gospel of unonism to this bureaucratic
machine which leans for support upon the militant spirit
of the workers. but the eneres of the BOSSES The
off system of the cardinal points of the cooperation be-
tween the bureaucracy and the bosses against the workers.
from whom the bosses trusted by MIR Hman to collect
the union dues
But the revolt is coming. The Shop Delegates Confer
of next Saturday and Sunday York foreshadows
day in the relations between the yellow Hman bureau
cracy and the and it has ensaved The militant
leadership of the Trade Union Educational League has given
to the workers the mems clothing industry the
program and the cystazaton necessary begin the
ment.
Bigger events to be expected in the needle trades
industry in all it's branches The Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union must and shall embrace the entire needle
industry 1t alone furnish the workers of the
clothing factories with organzatona and honest mill
tant leadership to fight their way of the present sweat
shop conditions onward toward the larger struggles
with which emancipation
The dress strike cannot but affect with it's example the
many thousands of workers whom Hman has bound and
sold to hearty cooperation with the scabherdng BOSSES
Who Stole the Goods the Cartoon?
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