The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
TrimmersStrike; Local
"a Men Defy Misleader

lied the shop five years ago and
had maintained union conditions in
it, should be fired. When the
operators drew lots to see who
should work, and the three winners
went to work, the boss refused to
accept them because they were not
the three he and Mendelowitz had
agreed on. He told the workers of
the bargaE with Mendelowitz.
Workers Show Solidarity.
Mendelowitz' threats, and spe-
cial executive board meeting of the
local, have all failed to shake the
/ determination of the operators to
repudiate this sell-out by their
official. This whole trick of the
boss and Mendelowitz, the trimmers
recognize as part of plan to force
them out. Though Local 43, n. T.
w. ]. u, they have had control of
their department. in the shop.
The second week of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
campaign to win union condi-
lions in all New York dress shops
began yesterday, with determine
ton expressed by all members to
force a shown down in shops that
refuse to sign with the union or
have violated conditions after sign
ing. The industrial union is actively
at work mobilizing all forces for the
struggle. More strikes are expected
soon, and strike action will be Wig
orously pushed against all employ
ers who do not carry out the condi-
tons and pay the wages demanded
by the union. This strike move
ment will proceed regardless of the
fake strike of Schlesinger & Co. and
his prearranged settlements"
Thursday, Hotel Roosevelt, the
conference called by Governor
Roosevelt, of the manufacturers,
the jobbers, the retailers and the
bureaucrats of the international
Ladies' Garment Workers will meet,
and work out more details for whole
sale betrayal of the workers, and
the fastening on them of company
union and the no-strike agreement.
Anti-Strike Machinery.
Acting Governor Lehman, of New
York, has applauded the system
used in the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, and the cloak section OF
the garment industry, and undoubt-
eddy some such scheme will be de-
vised for the dress trade.
The fake strike, by which the en-
ployers and the l. L. G. W. CO.
operate to lock out workers about
January 1 and rehire them as MEM
bers of the /. L. e. w. company
union has been loudly advertised at
the packed convention of the l. l..
G. W. held all last week in Cleves
land.
Misleaders Split Board.
Reports from Cleveland tell Of re-
organization in the /. L. G. w. form
of "union" taking place amidst an
orgy of disqualification speeches
by state governor, mayor, President
! Green and Vice President Woll of
the A. F. L. The convention has
divided the l. L. G. w. joint board
to make separate bodies for the
cloak and dress trades. The cloak
workers have already been sold into
company unionism through a fake
strike of the I.L.G.W. as far as the
misleaders were able to get any
control Of the situation, and appa-
rently the Schelesinger outfit feels
it can now simply lay them on the
shelf, and turn its attention to the
dress workers.
The Cleveland convention also en-
dorsed the A. F. of L. and United
Textile Workers movement into the
South, which has for its object a
united front with the mill barons to
prevent their workers from joining
the militant National Textile Work
ers' Union. Schlesinger's gang
voted to spend part Of the money
they hope to extort from their work
ers in shops they control to send
one "organizer" to help the U. T. w.