The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-19
GENERAL STRIKE OF FUR WORKERS
BEGINS TODAY TO WIN DEMANDS
Thousands Will Respond to Call to Destroy
Company Union, Build Real Organization
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CT an industrial union will be re-
vealed in this fight. All the thou
sands of the workers affiliated in
the needle workers organization
will join in the day-to-day active
fight of the furriers to establish
unionism in the industry.
Cloakmakers, dressmakers, fur
riers-all will, shoulder to shoulder,
do battle with all the dark forces
allied against the furriers, and with
them will join the entire militant
labor movement-for they know
that the fight of the furriers is the
fight of the entire labor movement
against the open strikebreaking of
the American Federation of Labor.
Destroyed By Scabs.
"Tha bosses and the A. F. of L.
bureaucrats," says the official strike
call, with the aid of the hired gang
sters, with the aid of the police,
courts and prisons, have broken our
mighty Furriers' Union and robbed
us of all our union conditions, won
through great struggle and sacrifice
in 1925. For two and half years
the bosses and their social and A.
F. of L. agents of the company
union have been exploiting ,oppres-
sing, terrorizing and prosecuting us
in the most dastardly manner. The
slavery, unemployment, hunger and
need of the thousands of fur work
ers and their families has reached
the limit of endurance!"
Issue Demands.
With the glorious victory of 1926
fresh in their memories, the furriers
are putting forth the following de-
nands: A 40-hour, 5-day week,
wage increases, unemployment in"
surance fund paid for by the bosses
and administered by the union, a
30-hour week during the slack pc
Rod, better conditions for the young
workers in the trade, no piece-work,
nc speed-up, no section contracting,
no sweatshops, no discrimination
and nc blacklisting of union men,
bers.
eve demand the abolition of the
bosses company union" says the
official strike call. eve are going
out in a struggle for our rights to
be organized in a militant union,
based on the class struggle and for
the recognition of our union For
these demands and for our clemen-
tary rights as workers, the furriers
will strike and fight courageously
and determinedly until victory"
Cloak Meet Tomorrow.
AS the furriers enter their his
toric struggle, the company union,
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, are proceeding with
their plans to force "stoppage" In
the cloak industry.
To carry out plans to transform
the fake stoppage into a genuine
struggle for union conditions, the
Industrial Union is calling a mass
meeting tomorrow night, immedi-
ately after work, in Manhattan Ly-
ceum, Sc E. Fourth st.
Women Meet Tonight.
The women workers will play
highly significant role in the pres
ent struggle, and thousands have
already been modified to fight
shoulder to shoulder with the men
in the strike. Tonight in Webster
Hall, 18th st. and Third Ave-, will
be held meeting of all women
workers in the needle trades
women dressmakers, women millln-
cry workers, women furriers and
women cloakmakers.
Conference Saturday.
The entire left wing and progress
sive movement is taking steps for