The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-06
TO MAKE REAL
STRIKE out or
FAKERS' BLUFF
Left Wing in Huge
Meeting
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clique will receive serious set
back in the next few days.
The Cooper Union meeting was
held at the exact time that l. L. 6.
w. officials, cloak manufacturers
and leading Tammany politicians
were meeting with Gov. Roosevelt in
Albany on the rrctcnse that they
were working out plans to "arbi
rate the fake stoppage.
With the announcement after the
conference that negotiations" be-
tween the bosses and the company
union will be resumed on Wednes-
day, it became increasingly clear
that a new Governors Commits
sion," similar to the one of 1925,
now hangs over the heads of the
cloakmakers. A bitter 10 weeks
strike followed the decisions of that
commission which ordered given to
the bosses concessions for which the
workers had fought for years.
Lieut.. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman,
Who was chairman of the 1925 COM
mission, and Raymond V. Ingersoll,
225, O00-a-year impartial chair
man" of the industry, will join in
the so-called negotiations which will
begin Wednesday.
These negotiations" are expected
to be similar to the shadow-boxing
stage play engaged in between the
manufacturers and the company
for many weeks prior to the stop
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Sasha Zimmerman, one of the
leaders of the Industrial Union,
acted as chairman of the meeting,
which was addressed by Louis Hy-
man, Ben Gold and Joseph Boru-
chowitz.
Zimmerman pointed out that on
the first day of the fake stoppage,
the company union chiefs were un2
able to gather together more than
two miserable meetings. While the
thousands of cloakmakers were
meeting in Cooper Union, thinner
man said, the clique was calling
their mythical $4,000 strikers" to
two meetings, one in Brownsville
Labor Lyceum and the other in As
toria Hall. The latter place, the
speaker said, was reported practical
ly empty.
Reckoned Without Workers.
All the speakers barred in detail
the fake stoppage, and declared that
its main purpose was to squeeze
more thousands out of the cloak
makers. Ha
The bosses and their agents reck-
onei without the workers, they said,
and this was revealed by the empti-
ness of the l. l.. G. w. halls on the
one hand, and the enthusiastic mass
demonstration of the\ Industrial
Union in Cooper Union, on the other
hand.
The speakers also told the work.
ers not to be terrorized by the gang
sters and pickpockets in the hire of
the company union. In every case
where the workers show resistance,
these worthless make themselves
scarce, they said.
Great Enthusiasm.
The Cooper Union meeting was
remarkable both in attendance and
enthusiasm despite the attempts of
the Schlesinger-Dubinsky gangsters
to interfere with workers on their
way to the hall. Just before the
meeting began, a score of these
strong arms attempted to invade
the hall, but the workers gave these
worthless an impressive fare-you-
well, and the I. L. G. w. thugs re-
luctantly left. They later gathered
around Eighth St., between Second
and Third AYES, where thew tried
to attack workers as they made their
way to the hall. AS result group
of the gorillas and several workers
were arrested.
1t is the ultimate aim of this