The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-07
WORKERS PARTY
URGES SUPPORT
OF Big STRIKE
District Executive Is
sues Statement
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workers; Tor the protection o1 W.
man and youth labor. The dress
makers must conduct such vigorous
struggle as to pave the way for the
elimination of the speed-up piece
work system and for the establish
ment of week work throughout the
industry.
For the first time n the history
of the labor movement the new
union will take up militant strug-
gle for all workers including the
most exploited section, the Negro
workers. Shoulder to shoulder with
their white brothers and sisters they
will fight for the victory of all the
needle workers against the increas-
ing system of exploitation.
The fight of the dressmakers
shows the stirring of the masses
for the organization of the unor-
gained. This is the battle Of the
hour. The workers of the United
States are being ground to pieces
by the employers who are turning
their unions into company unions,
by the reformist bureaucrats who
are serving as agents for increased
exploitation for the employers. The
workers are being subjected to in
human slavery in the preparations
of the capitalists for the coming
imperialist war.
In this strike all the enemies of
the workers will be united-the en-
ployers, the police, the courts, the
industrial squads, the injunction
judges, the socialist bureaucracy
the misleaders of labor. Already
the police are serving their employ
ers. Already they are arresting
workers. Already they are inter-
fering with picketing. Already the
Schlesingers are uniting with the
police to crush the strike.
The socialist party, Tammany
Hall, the republican party, will be
on the side of the employers. But
behind the striking workers stand
the great class conscious sections
of the working class-the militant
left wing fighters in the unions led
by the TUEL, the American section
of the Red Trade Union Interna-
tional with which the Industrial
Union of the Needle Trades is fra
ternally affiliated, the militant and
revolutionary workers led by the
Workers {Communist) Party. This
united front of the enemies of labor
will meet the solid wall of class
conscious labor. With united ranks,
with general whole-hearted support
of class conscious workers the bat
tie of the dressmakers will be won.
Into the picket lines of the dress
makers will go all needle trades
workers. Into the fight of the
dressmakers will enter all left wing
workers. The arrests will be met
by huge demonstrations of protest.
The injunctions will be met by mass
violation. The betrayal Of the bu-
reaucrats, of the socialists, will be
met by a determined fight that will
expose these enemies of the work
ers, and defeat these treacherous re-
formists.
This is not the first time that
such united front has been
formed. It was done in the gar
ment strikes of 1926 and 1927. Such
united fronts of the enemies OF the
workers have helped to destroy the
unions. But today the workers are
on the offensive. They know their
enemies. Today the workers make
their counter offensive to wipe out
the effects of the treachery OF the
bureaucrats.
THE dressmakers will do their
share. With courage, determination,
self-sacrifice they will fight their
employers and the agents OF the
employers, but the labor movement
must rally all it's forces. Every left
winger must be at his post in this
great struggle. Every appeal for
support must be answered enthus-
iastically. Lack of funds must not
defeat the battle. Acts of brutality
must not cause single worker to
finch in his duty.
All left wing, class conscious
revolutionary minded workers must
so participate in this battle as to
give two blows for every one blow
struck by the enemies of the work
ers.
In this task, the Workers Com
munist) Party of America, New
York district, pledges its full CO.
operation and support.
All support to the dressmakers
strike!
Revolutionary workers. Demon.
strate to the oppressed workers Of
the United States that the new
unions, based upon the shop dele
gate system, upon industrial union
ism, upon the idea Of the class
struggle, will march forward ane
win the support of the masses.
Militant workers! Rally to youl
fellow workers!
Help win their demands!
Help drive out the Schlesingers!
Help to smash the company
unions! a
Help build a powerful industrial
union in the needle trades that vii
inspire and encourage every work
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