The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-07

Oh ms poncleS. In reply to our de-
mands the International officials
have instituted a reign of terror and
gangsterism. Our International of
ficials openly combine themselves
with the bosses and the underworld.
With the assistance of the police
and courts began their persecution,
intimidation and terrorization of our
members who ga fighting against
the fascist rue of zaritsky and Co.
Our members remained loyal to the
local and the union which they have
built.
Hundreds of workers were thrown
off their jobs by the bosses at the
demand of the International Of
ficials. Many of our members were
brutality assaulted by the gangsters
hired by the right wing officials.
Many members were dubbed by the
police and imprisoned upon the in
stigation of the right wing provo
cateurs.
Moreover, wherever our local car
ries on strikes for the enforcement
and protection of the workers eco
nomic conditions, the right wing Of
ficials provide scabs for these firms
and grant concessions at the 0'-pcnse
of the workers.
The treacherous union-smashing
activities employed by the right
wing officials against our local are
also used against other locals of the
International. The charter of the
Boston Women's Local was revoked
by Zaritsky's clique. The Boston Lo-
cal Z Capmakers has been turned
into a company union by Zaritsky.
The lockout of the Chicago Cap
makers which was Unanswered by
Zaritsky for the reestablishment of
piece work, met with a stubborn
struggle on the part of the workers
and the strike was later betrayed
by the International officials. The
local has been destroyed, thus re-
establishing Chicago as an open CEN
ter.
President Zaritsky and his lieuten-
ants who act as agents of the bosses
are determined to force upon the
workers the forty-four hour week in
stead of the established forty hour
week in the cap trade and the piece
work system, instead of the prevail
ing week work system in the cap and
millinery trade. They have actually
given up the unemployment fund.
They are seeking to establish a col
lective agreement in the millinery
trade. Zaritsky is determined to
smash all the militant locals which
oppose his betrayals and which stand
for the maintenance of the union
conditions. True to his policy of
class-collaboration, Zaritsky is des-
perately trying to eliminate from
the union all progressive and mill
tant workers who distinguished
themselves in organizing thousands
of unorganized workers. Instead of
combating the open shop danger, in
stead of utilizing the unifie d
strength of the union for organizing
the thousands of unorganized work
ers, instead of protecting the in
terests of the workers, Zaritsky is
pursuing his treacherous policy of
dividing the workers ranks and
splitting and smashing locals, thus
helping the employers to defeat the
workers and destroy the union.
Fellow Workers: We ask you to
assist us in every possible way to
safeguard our union.
We appeal to you to help us COM
bat the unholy alliance of the right
wing officialdom, the bosses, the
gangsters and the police.
We appeal to you to help us main
tain the forty-nour week in the cap
trade, to establish the forty-hour
week in the millinery trade and to
maintain the week work system and
all other union conditions, gained
thru hard struggle and sacrifice by
the workers.
We appeal to you to help US rid
ourselves of the A. F. of L. leader
ship who have consistently hindered
the organization of the unorganized
workers and destroyed the organized
labor movement, and who has given
full support to the leadership of
Zaritsky in his work of destruction
and betrayal.
We appeal to you to help US rid
ourselves of the corrupt right wing
officialdom which is serving the in
terests of the bosses.
Help US unite all needle trade
workers into one powerful union to
protect the workers against their
enemies.
Help US unite all the cap and mil
linery workers with the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
whose aim is to organize the thou
sands of needle trade workers.
We welcome the establishment of
a Trade Union Center to be organ
lied at the Trade Union Unity Con-
vention to be held at Cleveland,
Ohio, June l and for the purpose of
unifying the ranks, organize the un-
organized, and improve the condi-
tions of the workers on the basis of
the class struggle.
We appeal to the sense of soil
darity and class consciousness Of the
working class and all militant work
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