The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-01

yesterday morning.
A stirring scene, long to be
remembered, was enacted when
this took place in New Star
Casino, where the cloak and
dressmakers had begun their con-
vention.
The delegates of the former gar
ment union, and the hundreds of
rank and file guests, were in the
big hall, when suddenly the furrier
delegates began to stream in. En-
thusiastic and repeated cheers re-
sounded thru the hall. Then all
Joined in a demonstration, hailing
the new union.
The furriers' delegation then di-
vided itself off according to terri
torial representation, and were
, shown to the tables around which
sat their home town comrades repre-
senting cloak and dressmakers.
With this organizational task COM
pleted, the convention settled down
to the job of laying the granite
blocks that will be the foundation
of the new union.
All throughout the morning and
afternoon sessions, the latter end
ing about in the evening, floral
! baskets, bouquets, and kilograms of
greetings kept coming in, neeessitat-
ing the halting of business, while
the accumulated greetings were read
off. The delegations of workers
from the shops were greeted with
applause as they came in bearing
their expressions 81 100, wishe.-
for the new union. When the day
had ended all but the chairman's
table was hidden behind a huge bank
of fiery red flowers, the aroma of
which made sitting at the press
table increasingly pleasant.
In a speech that moved everybody
Pat Toohey, secretary treasurer OF
the National Miners Union, told OF
the heroic struggles of the workers
in the coal mines against the bosses
and their agents, the Lewis machine
in control of the United Mine Work
ers.
After telling the delegates how
the mine workers had gone thru tn.
same struggles that they Lad facet
and how they had decided to foun
their own rank and file union, h,
greeted the new amalgamated uniol
of needle trades workers and halle,
it as brother-in-arms against tn,
common foe--the capitalist elias
: and its agents in the labor move
, ment.
! A picturesque illustration of tn
difference between the convention
: militant needle trade workers. or
; ganization and the conventions
| the old decayed bureaucratic ma
chine controlled by the socialist of
ficialdom, was presented in yer
graphic terms by a girl delegat
from the recently built Baltimor
local of the cloak and dressmaker:
union.
Describes Corruption.
She told the convention how til
old corrupt gang used to contr
previous conventions in order /
flout the will of the great majoritie
) of the membership. "Just befol
each convention" she related, /"
high official from the national o
, flee used to come into town ar
/ spend few days there picking o.
nir. xpbA h. 1o{o
delegates" These delegates" wou
be pledged to support the machi
at the convention on promise of
good time in the big city. Il W;
such delegate" she said, addin
"but since | was shown what re
unionism means, l will go back
the Baltimore girls and tell the
what we are build here She al
remarked satirically that it is +
better to sleep in the home of sol
fellow worker than at the hotels
labor takers used to spend mon
for.
Bring in Report.
When the convention swung il
Noih IHSy ulu 50 WITH u ulSpldy
remarkable efficiency. The Co
mittee of Rules and Regulatio
which was appointed earlier, ca
in with its report. Briefly, tn
recommendations slightly ament
after an exceedingly interesting
mature discussion, are that there
four more sessions of the conv
ton, one more that afternoon
three for today, beginning with
a. m. and ending at 10 p. M; t
Wolf Weiner, Boston, A. Luts
Los Angeles, M. Levine, Chic
and A. Bert, Philadelphia, were
be chairmen of the sessions in
named. Vice-chairmen chosen
H. Rosemond, representing
workers, Oswaldo Eusepi,
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