The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-14
Enemies LIES
FAIL TO BREAK
\ DRESS STRIKE
Walkout Grows: More
Shops Out

(COHttHtteU !FOHG Tuy6 O'te/
statement made by Rose Wortis
while addressing one of the mass
meetings of strikers in Stuyvesant
Casino yesterday. President Louis
Lyman and Secretary Ben Gold, in
speaking at mass meetings in Web
ster Hall and Irving Plaza, also took
up the question of the propaganda
being carried on by the bosses and
socialist press that the strike has
been ended.
Strike Spreading.
"The strike is by no means over,
all the forces of the organization
are being modified to make the
picket demonstration this coming
Monday as imposing in size and en-
5husiasm as was the demonstration
asst Monday" said Gold.
While hundreds of shops are be-
ing settled, after they have given
substantial guarantees of obeying
the union agreement, the strikers
picket committees are reorganizing
to intensity the work Of pulling
down more and more non-union dress
factories" the speaker stated.
Sadowsky, one of the biggest dress
manufacturers in the industry had
his plant halted when the work.
ers in the plant joined the strike
yesterday and registered in Webster
Hail. Several other important shops,
some controlled by the right wing
and among which are even shops
owned by members of the executive
board of the employers association
that recognizes the right wing COM
pany union, were also stopped.
Lyman, in speaking at one Of the
meetings yesterday, held up to ridi-
Guile the manner in which the For
ward "foamed at the mouth" when
speaking of the dressmakers' strike.
Historically, the socialist sheet an
nounced that the Communist strike"
is all over, that the Communists
have called off the strike even be-
fore they, the socialists, expected it
would. Hyman very simply called
attention to the large and enthusi-
astic mass meetings of the strikers
held in the middle of the day in four
large halls to give the lie to this
falsehood.
Yesterdays developments also in
dicated the adoption of new tactic
by the Tammany courts. Finding
that The mass arrests of the early
days of the strike failed to iEtimi-
cate the strikers or to break their
picket lines, the police seem to be
concentrating on arresting smaller
number of workers and then deal
ing with them more severely in
court. Of the 80 pickets arrested
Yesterday, two, Celia Roden and
Mary Kirshner, were given three
days, because they had been ar
rested before; one, Charles Mehl-
sack, was fined SIS; Is were re-
leased on SIS bail and two on 500
for hearings next Tuesday. The rest
were dismissed.
Eight strikers, who were arrested
last Thursday, received hearing
Yesterday and were dismissed, while
Ben Goldberg, a striker, was fined
IS.
Rosemond Still Ill.
The case of Henry Rosemond, Ne.
gro strike leader, was scheduled te
come up yesterday, but was post
Doned until next Wednesday, be-
cause Rosemond, who was severely
beaten and stabbed by right wing
thugs on the first day of the strike
was too i'll to appear in court.
Enthusiastic mass meetings Of
the strikers were held yesterday
afternoon in all four halls, Irving
Plaza, Webster Hall, Stuyvesan'
Casino and Bryant Hall. The meet
ings were addressed by Louis Hy
man, Ben Gold, Charles Zimmer
man. Rose Wortis, ]. Boruchovich
William z. Foster, Otto Hall, Of thu
American Negro Labor Congress
end others. The strikers were mob
ilized for picket duty today and par
ticularly for the special picket dem
onstration next Monday.
The American Negro Labor Con
sress has endorsed the strike AM
HAS issued call to all Negro work
ers to support it. Committees o
Negro strikers are being formed t
concentrate on pulling out all Negr'
dressmakers.