The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-13

CARELESS of craft lines in the strug-
gle against the bosses offensive, and
who are leading the masses of
needle workers today through strug-
gle toward the building of new
fighting National Needle Trades In
dustrial Union.
At Time of Great Reaction.
The women workers Of the dress
industry are showing an inspiring
example of solidarity and militancy
to working women all over the coun-
try. At this moment Of deepest re-
action when the imperialist govern
ment in Washington is rushing the
preparations for war, while the
bosses at home are plotting to de-
stroy the labor movement and fas-
ten the chains of compulsory labor
and the speed-up upon the workers,
when fascism lifts its ugly head in
America, already strong and blood
thirsty, when pacifism is seeking to
conceal the war preparations with
phrases of peace, when America is
on the verge of a world war and
the American labor movement faces
a life and death struggle with the
employers, at this moment, the wom-
en- workers, the great masses of
unorganized women workers toiling
in the shops, mills and factories for
starvation We res, working unlimited
hours under the lash of the spec
up, must awaken to a consciousness
of their terrible condition and of its
roots in the capitalist system and
the imperialist development of Amer
lean capitalism, must take up the
struggle against the bosses and or
ganized into unions to fight for bet
ter wages and shorter hours, for
equal pay for equal work, for aboli-
ton of the speed-up, for protection
for mothers and children of the
working class, for better working
conditions and power in the shops
and industries to free themselves
from the terrible exploitation and
subsection in which they are held by
the capitalist today.
The women workers in general will
find, as the dressmakers have found,
that the only hope for successful,
struggle is under the leadership of
the Trade Union Educational League
and the Workers .fCommunist1-
Party. They will find that there.
formist right wing and socialist
leadership openly betrays them,
sells them out and leads them into
the slough of company pnionism,
that the. American Federation of
Labor. instead of organizing the
masses of unorganized women work
ers, uses every means to prevent
them from organizing and to dis
criminate against them in the unions,
that the Women's Trade Union
League, its female annex, initiates
it's traitorous class collaboration tao
tics, and instead of organizing work
ing women, seeks only to maintain
its own bureaucracy, the Rose.
Schneidermans, and Maud Schwartz
es, whose chief role today is a strike
breaking one, aiding the other bur-
eaucrats of the A. F. Ito smash
the women's organizations, and set
up open shops, that this same woni-
EMS Trade Union League acts. as
the political lackey of the capitalist
political machines, and the servant
Of the bourgeois pacifists and irn-
perialists in their preparations for
the next war.
Working women everywhere! The
dressmakers' strike is your strike.
Their victory will be your victory!
The new union they are building
will be stronghold for the spread
ing of organization among the un-
organized women workers in other
industries. Rally all your forces to
aid the drcssmakers in their strug-
gle! Help to win this strike and to
lay the foundation for the nation
wide organization Of women work
ers!
Come out on the picket line in
masses, women workers of New
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