The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
Spread the Furriers' Strike!

THE excellent response the fur strike call of the Joint
Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union
raises high the hopes for in the drive OF the furrers
TO wine out the sweat shop and accompanying miserable
conditions which brought largely by the strike
breaking activities the bosses company unon in which
the socialists and the A. F. of L. major participants
On the morning of the strike the garment center pre-
sented picture of district under martial law Policemen
were stationed points five feet from another through
out the entire An attempt made to stop the dis
rbution of strike calls and several workers arrested
The Tammany police and courts will be used to the full
against the strikers The needle workers have already in
many struggles shown their great courage The whole work.
ing class help defeat these enemies of the proetariat
The furriers have their credit the victory of 1926
which won better conditions which later lost through
the attacks of the reactonary labor takers VINO acneVeo
for manufacturers and contractors what the BOSSES
themselves could not achieve This brought back the slavery
and terrorism which the fur workers in heroic struggles had
previously succeeded in greatly modifying.
For approximately two years the fur workers have suf
fered beyond endurance Now their chance to peat PACK
the exploiters onslaughts.
The furriers union among the first to raise the de-
niand fiveday fortyhour work week 1t was their
challenge this issue at the Detroit convention of the A.
F of L. two years ago which shattered the compacncy OF
William Green's fat boys In the face of the opposition of
the combination of the Bosses socialists and labor takers this
demand was won only later to be again lost through the
underand dsruptve work of the socialist and A F. of L.
the demand with the same
enemies fighting against it, the enemies reinforced
by the new group of reactonares, the Music group
The other demands are the equal division of work.
employment administered by the union, no section
contracting discharge payment of for time lost
during strike and many others including special youth de-
mands The workers also directing their struggle
against police brutality and against protection of boss and
socialist gangstersm.
The workers are now fighting with the advantage of
mtantly led industrial union The union will make the
strike effective than before by aggressvey
ganizng all the workers in the shops including floor boys
shipping workers. office workers, and especially the Negro
workers
The fur industry lying it does in the New York gar
ment district offers excellent opportunity for effective
demonstrations of solidarity by the workers in other
branches of the needle industry The millinery ladies gar
ment mems clothing and workers in similar lines must
exert every effort aid the fur workers in their pcketng
of the shops and the prevention of scabbng
New York fur workers the best fighters
of the working class in this city, The spenddy conducted
food strike which much for the cafeteria workers.
needle trades workers among Others gave to it, victory
for the fur workers strengthening OF the whole
working class in the fight against the deficiency produc
ton decentralization program of the capitalist class 1t
therefore the duty of all workers to theoretically
support furriers strike to help the fur workers tie
the industry by spreading their strike and thus bring
this struggle to a victorious conclusion.