The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10
PLAN REAL CLOAK
STRUGGLE AT BIG
SHOP MEETING
Elect Committee of Is
to Conduct Strike

An enthusiast onferene of several
hundred rank and file representatives
of a large number Of cloak shops,
held at Irving Plaza, 18th st. and
Irving Pl., yesterday afternoon, took
concrete steps to Illustrate the be-
trayal plans of the officials of the
International Ladies Garment Work
crs Company Union and to convert
their fake stoppage into a real
struggle of the thousands of cloak
makers for the 40-hour five day
week, abolition of piece work and
other union conditions.
The conference, which was called
by the militant Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union at the request
of several thousand cloakmakers who
packed Cooper Union last Friday,
was distinguished by the fighting
spirit that prevailed. Among those
present were not only workers who
have been following the leadership
of the Industrial Union all along, but
many who had formerly been de-
luded into putting their faith in the
scab International, but whom the de-
velopments of the last few days
the brazen alliance of the I. L. G. w.
chiefs with the employers.
Elect Rank and File Committee.
Addresses were made by Industrial
Union leaders, as well as by rank and
file delegates, exposing the con-
spirac4 of the bosses and their COM
pany union agents and expressing
the determination to wage a real
struggle.
The chief task of the conference
W IS the election of rank and file
committee of 25 which will take &C
tive charge of the strike and work
in cooperation with the Industrial
Union. In a resolution passed I'M
animously, giving the real facts be-
hind the fake stoppage, this new
rank and file committee is instructed
to issue a call to the workers to or
ganize their shops, bring them to
the halls of the Industrial Union and
continue to strike until their de-
mands are won; to arrange a large
mass meeting of cloakmakers within
the next few days to rally them for
the struggle; and that all necessary
measures be taken to make it clear
to the cloakmakers that they must
not contribute single penny to the
company union and that they must
resist all efforts to extort money
from them by force.
Already Announce End of "Strike.'
So panic stricken have the I. L.
G. W. company union agents become
at the response to the call of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union to convert their fake stoppage
into real strike that they are not
even putting up the pretense of
awaiting the outcome of the new
negotiations" scheduled to start to-
day with the employers, but are an
nouncing that settlements with indie
pendent manufacturers will start to-
morrow and the workers will be
back in the shops by Monday. The
leaders of the three bosses associa-
tions pretend to be incensed at this
plan to settle with the independents
first, but they know, that this is only
a move intended to stampede the in
dependents, many of whom are be-
ing forced by their workers to sign
with the Industrial Union, into the
company union camp.
Raise Workers Bail.
Arthur Stein and Alexander Har-
tenstein, cloakmakers, who were ar
rested during Mondays picketing
after Stein had been badly cut by a
right wing guerilla, and who were
both released on $1,000 bail, had
their bail raised yesterday to $4,000
thanks to the instigation of the COM
pany union. Both are charged with
"felonious assault" and their hear
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