The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-09
ORES REACTION
I NECL GETTING
U TIN ACTIVITY
WIS Importance Of
Youth in Strike
Young Needle Trades Wcrler)

and the betrayal OF the trace
officialdom a new powerful
trial union of all needle trades
RS is being built.
the young workers the estab-
ent and building Of this new
trial union is especially signifi-
1t is an established fact that
d unions, dominated by the A.
L. craft theology, never made
lttempt to organize the young
RS and even put great obstacles
e way of the young workers
were ready to be organized.
failed to Understandable
not willing to realiZe-the new
of the young workers in in
Y and in the labor movement.
tn the introduction of new
merry and the simplification OF
DDS of work, it became more
more possible for unskilled
workers to replace skilled
workers. Because of the class
)oration policy practiced by the
wing officials and their I'M
lgness to conduct any sort OF
ant struggle for the malnten-
of union conditions, the bosses
able to slip out of union control
make great Roadway in using
Q workers to beat down the cen
Is of the union workers. Thus
worsened the conditions both of
dult and young workers.
the unorganized fields, where
}ulk of the workers are young,
xploitation, misery and suffer
IAN hardly be exaggerated. 1t
ecessary simply to state the
Wages range from $12 to
week; hours from AZ to Sd;
airy conditions are sometimes in
'ibable. In spite of this and in
of the fact that the young
ers are known to be good fight
the reactionary bureaucrats abb
civ refused to take any steps
ganize the young workers in the
e goods industry (house dresses,
1t wear, collars, shirt makers,
kerchiefs, etc.. This treachery
a piece with the betrayals of
plumbers helpers, the girl mil
v trimmers, ETC., by the A. F.
officialdom. When the Plum
Union went out on strike for
lcrease of So a day the plumbers
ers refused to remain on the
md struck side by side with the
mechanics. As usual the
aucrats sold out the strike and
the plumbers helpers at the
" of the bosses. When the left
took over Local 43 of the Mil
Y Union in 1925, the member
of this local was only AGO.
+ two years of regular organi-
IN work by the left wing the
lbership increased ten-fold and
he'd 1000. AS a result of this
| organization work, the local
me a real challenge to the right
bureaucrats and refuted the
,epeated "claim" of the A. F.
J.. that the young workers are
,ganizable. AS a result the
t wing began a crusade against
II 43 which seriously weakened
down the conditions of the
union.
he newly elected General Exec
c Board which comes from the
( and file, and which is no long
,ased on the narrow craft A. F.
!. theology, will employ all means
IS disposal to organize all needle
les workers regardless of sex,
+. race or age into one powerful
IN which will be capable of de-
ling and advancing the interest
all the workers in the industry.
ticularly will such a union bene-
the young workers and it there
] appeals and urges every young
ker in the needle industry to join
help build the new union.
he high initiation fee which al
s KEPT young workers out of the
On has been lowered. A youth
ion has been established within
union which will conduct and
elop social, sports and educa-
lal activities. This will serve
means of not only keeping the
ng workers who are already in
union, but also as a means OF
acting new recruits.
he bosses are constantly organ
o youth clubs to divert the at
lion of the young workers from
class struggles and so from or
lization into trade unions, so that
y may defend their own interest.
I, new union is introducing those
tn features to acquaint the young
,kers with the class struggle, and
h the Importance of the trade
ons for the advancement of their
erest. While the new union is
hting for the re-establishment OF
40-hour week, generally, but for
young workers in particular, who
in the midst of their develop
1t, it will fight for the establish
At of SO hour week, two rest
iods a day, to offset the harmful
ect of the speed-up system.
he new union is opposed to dis
against young workers
only in the union itself, but will
hit against discrimination Of
NC workers in the shops by de-
r. l.